Sunday, May 26, 2013

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Sun Tzu: A 21st – Century Warrior

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Ancient Chinese military strategy evolved over thousands of years of conflicthuman hostilities that range from visual intimidation to killing; replaces the martial arts term “fight” because not all human hostilities end in physical violence.. As commanders rose and fell, the heart of their philosophies were saved for future generations. These early lessons took written form [...]

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Stress and the Training Environment

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The modern training arena is becoming more focused on efficiency of skill acquisition. This is primarily due to the increase in the complexity and quantity of scenarios available to train. To move the student from probability of failure to a high chance of survival in combat is no easy task. Each human being has a [...]

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To Study the Old, Is To Understand the New

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Teaching modern Martial Arts and Reality-Basedtraining and survival skills based on modern conflict situations that the practitioner is likely to encounter in their environment (their “reality”). self-defense, many times we are faced with questions like: “Why do you study Brazilian Ju-jutsu?” or “Why do you study Judo?” or “Why do you study Japanese Swordsmanship?”, and [...]

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Safety First, Safety Last

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What’s wrong in the Martial Arts industry today?  At one defensive shooting academy, a firearms trainer shoots and wounds one of his own instructors. At other training facilities, students are routinely hospitalized with ‘training accidents.’ There are systems in the Martial Arts marketplace that claim to produce the ‘Baddest,’ or ‘Deadliest’ students. One instructor even [...]

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JKD Summit Not A Journey, An Adventure

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Stating that there is a divide within the JKD community is not new news. I have been guilty of taking sides and arguing points of view for numerous reasons. After listening to these sides and personalities go back and forth for years, I’ve realized that there has been little or no growth from it. If [...]

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Psych Drugs, Not Guns, Doing the Killing

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Las Vegas, Nevada: 12 years ago, I asked a very pointed question in a press release sent to the National Wire Service immediately following the killings at Columbine High School. A few days after the Virginia Tech Massacre, I again asked the same very direct question. And today, after the Newton Connecticut massacre, I am [...]

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Police Officer Survival Guide – The California Newhall Incident

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On April 5, 1970, the officer survival movement was born out of one of the darkest days in law enforcement’s history. In less than five minutes, two heavily armed and well-prepared criminals shot and killed four California Highway patrol officers. These officers were from an agency that was believed to be one of the leaders [...]

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Police Officer Survival Guide – To Be Armed Off Duty

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A dilemma for officers is whether to be armed or not off duty. Statistics on assaults against off-duty officers are given in a publication released yearly by the U.S. Department of Justice in its uniform Crime Reports series. Based on it, in the ten-year period between 1986 and 1996 one out of every seven officers [...]

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Best Practices: Leading By Example

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You’re unlikely to truly inspire fellow officers unless you’re willing to toil in the trenches alongside them. Anything I ever needed to know about leadership I learned serving in the U.S. Army prior to becoming a law enforcement officer. In my 22-year Army career (active and reserve combined) I attended leadership schools required for promotion, [...]

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Police Officer Survival Guide – The Use of Color Codes

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One of the modes used in training, which is helpful, is the use of color codes. The color codes, developed a number of years ago, by Jeff Cooper describe levels of awareness that are combined with the appropriate protective actions a person should take when he or she comes in contact with other people. The [...]

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