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The Cane; Up Close and Personal

Article by: Dave McNeill

The bad guy has picked his spot carefully; the hallway between the restaurant and the bathrooms is unusually narrow, the lighting dim, the noise from the crowded restaurant and piano bar will effectively drown out any sounds of struggle, or calls for help.  You, the good guy, cannot swing the cane you are carrying, as [...]

Unarmed Against a Blade

Article by: Donald Miskel

People study the martial arts for any number of reasons. The type of art you study probably reflects that reason. If you are sports oriented, you probably aren’t studying aikido or krav maga. While all martial arts serve a purpose all aren’t created equal. Some lend themselves better to self defense than others. Some are [...]

Calm

Article by: John Wallace

It has been my experience in Life that, with a few notable exceptions, whenever a bully is confronted with a resolute and calm and (at least SEEMINGLY) confident adversary, he will usually back down. Does not work every time, but it has proved to be, in my experience anyway, generally true. I noticed a while [...]

Life In A Day – A Survival Attitude

Article by: Scott Hilderbrand

She was a hard working woman, and a mother of three. Jim was six years old and Kimberly eight from her current marriage to Bill a good man. Then there was Joey, her oldest son from her previous marriage to Todd who unlike Bill was anything but good. Todd had left Helen stranded and standing [...]

Aikido and Conflict Management

Article by: Richard Ostrofsky

The name, ai-ki-do, means roughly �the way of unified or harmonized spirit.� Unlike many other fighting arts, it is not a sport. In fact, one of the basic ideas of aikido is that competition has no place in combat. What the aikidoist never does is square off with an opponent for a fair contest to [...]

Personal Protection for Women

Article by: World Wide Dojo

More than seventy percent of women in America encounter a violent crime within their life time. Every nine seconds a woman is battered. One out of every eight women currently living in the U.S. has been a rape victim. Each day approximately three thousand women report that they have been victims of some force aggression. [...]