From the category archives:

Combatives

Practical Self-Defense

by Coach Bruce Pahl on November 17, 2009

I titled this article practical self defense or self protection because there is such a thing as impractical self defense. By this I mean things or techniques that won’t work in the street.

Punching someone with your fist to the frontal or side portion of the skull. The human fist was not made to hit a round solid object. [...]

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“REAL” Women’s Self-Protection and Awareness

by Grant Bacon on November 17, 2009

One rape or sexual assault occurs every two minutes.
One violent crime occurs every five seconds in the U.S.
172 Women are physically and/or sexually assaulted every hour
261,000 rapes and sexual assaults occurred in the U.S. in 2000.
90,186 forcible rapes in 2000 as reported to police.
In the year 2000, 2.8 % of college women experienced rape in a six month U.S. Department of Justice study.
17% of rape or sexual assault victims were victimized by someone [...]

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Combat Muay Thai (Muay Boron)

November 16, 2009

It is often very evident that people forget that the meaning of the word “martial” is military or combative.  This Means that many martial arts were taught for the purpose of allowing practitioners to excel and succeed in combative endeavors (though not all “martial arts” that exist today were in fact historically “martial” in nature).  [...]

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The Truth In Combat

November 11, 2009

The Truth in Combat is a martial philosophy and concept. This truth mindset is crucial because most people only think about their personal reality and experience and not truth.
The word reality is being used all the time now in martial arts and combat but most people only have a partial understanding or a perception of [...]

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FREE eBook! Six Key Training Strategies

November 6, 2009

This article is an overview of the Free eBook entitled Six Key Strategies Every Martial Artist Should Know (But Most Don’t) that I recently wrote on how a martial artist can greatly improve his or her performance in any martial arts style or method by adding these techniques and focusing their training around these six key strategies.
The six strategies [...]

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