Can You Really Learn Martial Arts and Self-Defense From Seminar Training Only?

What do you do when, you want to pursue the study of the martial arts or learn real-world self-defense and there are no schools near where you live? What do you do even if there are martial arts schools or self-defense classes being offered in your local area but… …they’re just not up to par [...]

In A Self-Defense Situation Control The Distance And You Control The Fight

One thing that becomes painfully evident to anyone who has been studying the Ninja’s warrior arts for any length of time is…the shear impossibility of being able to practice all that you’ve learned. After even a short time in training, the number of skills, technique models known as “kata,” and weapons hits a point where, [...]

What Practically Guarantees Success In A Self-Defense Encounter?

It never ceases to amaze me just how many people have the same questions or ideas about self-defense and what works. Seriously. Almost as soon as someone finds out that this is what I do, I invariably get one of two responses. You can break these responses down into the “asker” and the “teller” groups. [...]

Defend Yourself & Stay Alive ! : The -3- Goals Of Self-Defense (3Rd Of 3)

Ask any tough guy, boxer, wrestler, or martial artist the question, “What are the Goals of Self-Defense ?”  What you will get are several answers ranging from “Don’t get hit !” to “Beat up your attacker !”  Unfortunately, none of these answers presents any value to the average person when dealing with attackers in this [...]

Science Of Self-Defense – Control The Distance And You Control The Fight

One of the biggest problems that students encounter in their attempts to master self-defense, is the use and control of distance. And yet, learning to control the distance between you and your attacker is probably THE most important skill that you could ever master.   This isn’t just something that those new to martial arts [...]

Self Defence – What the law says part 1

THE MANDATORY WARNING! Within U.K. Law there is no such thing as a MANDATORY WARNING in any case you may not have time to give a warning, what happens then?. The following is what U.K. Law really says about the use of warnings.   A Duty to Avoid Conflict, One of the most technical elements of common [...]

Ending Domestic Violence: Losing Control

Finally after much pleading and cajoling from people in her social circle she has left the relationship. It was not easy to get her to take this step. Quite often she was very adamant in telling people to leave her alone. She wasn’t staying for the kids or out of fear. She loved him [...]

Domestic Violence- the Psychology of the Abuser

Domestic violence is one of the most serious issues that affects the lives of millions of people in the world. Though women are the most commonly abused group, men are also abused by their partners. But women form the majority of those being abused. What kind of a person abuses his/her partner? Why the [...]

Why Answer the Question, “Am I in an Abusive Relationship?”

Warning! This article will either turn you upside down or be the angel that keeps you on your feet, or both.Each time I go into a chat room on the Internet, in which the topic is abusive relationships, I hear the question: “My boyfriend pushes me to the wall and braces me there. Is [...]

Family Violence Healing – Writing About a Mother’s Nightmare of Abuse Beyond Control

Where did you get the where-with-all to write your book (All But My Soul) people continue to ask seven years after its publication. This question has been presented to me so many times, I’m compelled to give you the answer in this article. I didn’t write it; it wrote itself. Now I know that [...]

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