Category: Self-Defense

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The first thing you ought to be teaching children to do is to learn to signal for support.

3 Critical Survival Skills To Educate Children

The more they understand, the less scared they’ll be.

Critical Survival Skills For Children
You realize that your child has been separated from your group.
Here’s a summary of what he told me.
Your kids must learn to be very observant.
Teach them about using their voices and with a signaling device like a whistle.

Would your child know how to survive?
Unfortunately, there are a lot of television and novels available right now that paint children and teens as these epic dramatic heroes.

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Investing the time and training today to make your kids more self-sufficient could be the difference between life and death.

You’ve got to take some time to teach your kids some basic survival skills.
If they’re prepared for it, they’ll be able to tackle it if it happens to them.

If they wait too long, it is going to be too late.
Here are three skills you need to reach your children:

The sooner they indicate, the better the odds are that they’ll be close enough for you to hear them.
What will you do… and what will THEY do?

Recently I discussed children ’ survival situations with survival expert Kevin Estela.

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Educating your kids these observations abilities makes them better able to assist you help THEM.

They should be able to describe the last known point they saw and to identify landmarks.

Teach them, too, to make noise once they realize they are lost.

We need to look at what we can realistic expect a child to do when out in the forests.

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In certain scenarios, your child might be stranded overnight in the woods.

2. Learn How to Observe

If they’re not scared, they won’t panic.

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Check the video out and there s a link below to go register.

Here is a Movie I did live talking about the Korean Martial Art Festival held in Crestview, Florida. The event will be held the weekend of April 20-22, 2018, this year.
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Korean Martial Art Festival

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There are three Different categories of learning: Vertical Learning, Horizontal Learning, and Connective Learning.

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Republican Presidential Candidate Ben Carson creates a bold but true statement concerning the Oregon massacre.  “I would not just stand there and let him shoot me,” Carson said on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning. “I would say,’Hey guys, everyone…
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On both my site and in my book, I explain the foundation of unarmed physical self defense training should be what I call the MMA Base, which is only training punches, kicks, elbows, knees, and wrestling against the uncooperative opponent.  If you do not train these most common methods against an uncooperative opponent, then you can’t learn to defend against them.  Period.  Many martial arts practitioners don’t realize this.  It should be entirely uncontroversial, but unfortunately it isn’t.  So as to learn to defend against something, you need to actually train against it!

After Chapter 6, on the MMA Base, there are chapters on Functional Self Defense, Environmental Applications, and Physical and Mental Fitness – all vital components of self defense that have nothing at all to do with game based fighting. 

Before I get to the MMA Base in the book, in Chapter 1 I cover the difference between self defense and martial arts, pointing to how self defense and MMA/sport based fighting are not the same.  The first chapter of my novel points out the opposite of what this reviewer claims I insist upon.  Again, this is the opposite of saying that game based fighting should form the base for real world self defense.  Chapters 4 and 5 cover more aspects of self defense plan, together with functional training. 
“The techniques and systems of the MMA Base are designed primarily for one-on-one sport based fights between men and women in similar weight classes, in a place intended for safe fighting, where both participants understand what is about to happen. There are rules that prohibit some of the most effective and damaging techniques from being used, and by eliminating those techniques from the equation, unique and effective footwork, perfect for self defense, is also failed. For the most efficient and effective physical self defense, we must go beyond the MMA Base. ”
I receive emails nearly daily from people who have read my books or spent time on my website, telling me how much they have learned from the content.  The majority of them have practiced other martial arts, and many are martial arts instructors.  Just as I was taught ineffective material and thought it was powerful, these individuals have done the same.  Reading my books and training the material in them has enabled people to find out what really works and what doesn’t, to really learn self defense, and to make their training far more practical and realistic.  It disturbs me that this one bad review from someone who clearly either didn’t read my book or didn’t see most of what was inside, has substantially decreased the amount of people who have access to realistic, practical material.
You can see the bad review here.

However, the MMA Base is not self defense, and that I ’ve never stated that it is.  The MMA Base is one little part of self defense.  Self defense involves a combination of strategy, training techniques, and techniques that include awareness and avoidance, unarmed physical self defense, and armed bodily self defense.  Awareness and prevention are far more significant than the MMA Base, for instance.  It’s for this reason that the MMA Base part of my novel is in Chapter 6 rather than Chapter 1.

Update: Changes Ahead

Bad Review

I proceed to explain why sport based fighting is inadequate for physical self defense.
I think the main reason he disliked the book was due to his misunderstanding regarding this sentence he wrote: “The writer ’s insistence that sport based fighting form the base for real world self defense was also highly suspect. ”

I haven’t posted or sent out any emails/updates in several months now.  I’ve been really busy with lots of big changes.  At some point early next year things will settle down, and I have plans to add more videos to my site along with possibly offering educational videos.  I’ll also get back to posting more on this site.  I have a backlog of at least a couple hundred emails, and I apologize if you’ve written and that I haven’t written back.  I’ll try to respond soon!
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What frustrates me about this review isn’t so much that this one person missed just about everything in the book, although that’s frustrating, but his misguided review has caused many individuals not to buy the book.  (This is most likely because of the publication ranking worse because of his review, although I’m sure some people have decided not to purchase it after reading what he wrote.)  And the primary reason I’m frustrated about people not buying the book doesn’t have anything to do with me making money by selling it.  I made this website and wrote the books because I really care about people knowing what works and what doesn’t concerning self defense.  It’s a passion of mine.  This is not exactly what I do for a living.  I don’t want the money.

So I’ve a favor to ask.  Lots of you reading this have purchased my books.  Lots of you have emailed me to express how much you learned from them.  If you’ve read the books, please take a moment or two to write a review on Amazon.  Doing this will help other martial artists and self defense practitioners who won’t see this material differently.  Thank you!

The reviewer also composed, “I did not find any new or unique material and/or insights inside this tome. ”  Again, he should not have read the book.  I have hundreds of martial arts and self defense books , and spend some time at least looking at every new book that I come across.  I can guarantee this reviewer that he has never seen some of the concepts, strategies, and techniques that are covered in my book.  There are new and unique material and insights in my book.
A few months ago someone wrote a bad/one star review of my first book, The Ultimate Guide to Unarmed Self Defense, on Amazon.com.  There are aspects for this review.  First, it’s entirely wrong.  And second, it caused my book sales to immediately drop by about 75%.  I’m going to address the points this person made in the review here on my blog.

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Not to me.

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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be.

The point of many of my articles, quotes and more passages, together with the teachings of many good martial art teachers who really do assist with the character development of their pupils, is to show perfect virtues so that we can have some sort of description of what perfect virtues are. Seeing the ideal allows us to analyze our personal condition during its current state in comparison with the ideal. Probably not. Many people falter at times from the ideal we we strive toward. But rather than be frustrated and believe we are woefully lacking in virtues, we continue to strive toward such ideals, thus improving and growing personality along the journey.
Some may question the worth of my quotes about virtues, or even the more posts about them. One could say the same about the several books that have been written over the ideal of a virtuous person, and the ages on what virtues are. What’s the point in writing about virtues, particularly”warrior virtues” that I often write and talk about? And when I talk about”warrior virtues,” I’m talking about the character traits shared among many who have practiced the arts of warfare throughout history, and more recently those who exercise some type of martial art which also contains a virtuous component, thus resulting in advertisements claiming that studying martial arts will help with character development.

The key, as French philosopher Comte-Sponville reminds us is that,”thinking about the virtues won’t make us virtuous,” so we must not just read the quotations and ideals, but as martial artists, keep the warrior virtues in mind as we go through our daily lives. In the end, we strive to be virtuous people in society, not just the training hall. We have to practice being virtuous, because like strength, or our art methods, virtues develop through practice. So practice!

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We must not only read the quotations, articles, and books about virtues and personality development, sharing them because we liked the picture or perfect (and I really do hope you share my articles and articles), but we must also examine the ideas of great thinkers (such as Marcus Aurelius at the beginning of this post), both historic and present, and gauge our own actions against the standards presented. Assessing philosophical ideas provides a direction, and allows us to believe in our capacity to lead more virtuous lives and create the character we desire.

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Republican Presidential Candidate Ben Carson makes a bold but true statement concerning the Oregon massacre.  “I would not just stand there and let him shoot me,” Carson said on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning. “I would say,’Hey guys, everybody…
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