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CLOSE QUARTER COMBAT

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BASIC TOOLS FOR SELF PRESERVATION

Grapplers will say 98% of all real fights go to the ground, so take them there. Stand up fighters say all fights start standing up, keep them there. Reality says street fights take place at any or all ranges so you’d better be prepared to fight anywhere. This being said there is one particular range that is most conducive to ending a fight quickly: Close quarters. Most fights take place in the space of a phone booth. Unlike sportive fightin [...]

A Bit of Reality

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I was in Arizona recently visiting family and I had a conversation with someone I thought I would share (with his permission of course.)

My brothers roommate is a tattoo artist at a local shop. As he was leaving work with some tattoo equipment he was approached by three gnarly youths looking for whatever they could get from him. An argument followed which quickly escalated into a 3-on-1 fight. One of the assailants pulled a knife and took a swing catching my brothers roommate on th [...]

The Brother Factor

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Why is it that when it comes to a topic as serious as dealing with a knife attack we see so many plainly ludicrous techniques and tactics being taught throughout the martial arts world. It even happens in so called "reality based" circles. It seems as though people who are referred to as masters of edged weapon use and defense seem to be missing something. These people have obviously spent a great deal of time working their craft and learning to perform intricate sequences of blocks, t [...]

The Ability to "Flow" in Combat

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"In the groove", "in the zone", "in the bubble", and "on auto-pilot" are all ways to describe what the Japanese call "muga", and what Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced CHICK-sent-me-high-ee) dubbed "flow" in the 1980's. Flow can be defined as a period in time in which one becomes so completely involved in an activity that all other thoughts and [...]