Why Swordsmen and Marksmen Should Learn to Fight!
You’ve heard the old axiom, “Never bring a knife to a gun fight?” or the “21 foot rule,” well consider this for a minutes, what happens if you have a concealed carry weapon permit (CCW) but you are...
View ArticleYouTube Channel for My Self Defense Blog
I would like to announce and explain about the “MySelfDefenseBlog” YouTube channel in this post. You know the old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, well in this light – a video is...
View ArticleHow to Throw a Knockout Punch for Self-Defense?
Way back when I was a kid watching Batman and Robin, I was trying to figure out how to throw a knockout punch. I figured from watching the shows that you had to pull your hand way back and swing as...
View ArticleOpinion Polls; How Accurate are they Really?
Now I know that this is not the most interesting subject but I had of dose of this in college statistics classes (3) for my undergrad and graduate degree. In business, statistics are mostly used for...
View ArticleFighting Distances; Considering Variations in Armed and Unarmed Fighting
You live in a city or country where you cannot carry a gun and your car breaks down. Your cell phone is out of juice but you see a store a couple of blocks down the street. Earlier in the day you had...
View ArticleTransitioning from Sport Karate Fighter to Self-Defense!
One of the fighter’s dilemmas is what happens when you grow old? I’ve written about this before but I want to take a slightly different tact other than entertaining the though that old men will fight...
View ArticleThe Refugee Issue is Really Smoke and Mirrors as Genocide Not Addressed!
We hear a lot about how caring liberals are and how mean conservatives are regarding the Syrian refugee issue. This is probably fodder for tonight’s debate. For a long time this was difficult for me...
View ArticleEastern Martial Arts compared to HEMA vs Modern Fencing
Wow that is quite a mouthful – Eastern MA compared to Historical European MA vs Olympic Fencing? Many might not understand the differences and to be truthful – it is hard to see the difference...
View ArticleTarget Putting Women and Children at Risk! Boycott Target
For those of you who don’t know – Target has been on the cutting edge of the lefty agendas by pushing the boundaries of safety under the guise of transvestites rights (or whatever they call...
View ArticleSelf-Defense Against Knives or Other Weapons?
When I was a kid I used to watch how Kato (Bruce Lee in the Green Hornet) could beat thugs with knives and clubs in fights! Boy he made it look easy. I said at the time I wanted to learn how to do...
View ArticleSocial Media Does Not Work for Me; Expanding the Scope of this Blog!
This is a short post about the expansion of MySelfDefenseBlog.com. You see I, like over a billion others of you have tried facebook and other such sites and for me it is maddening! I’ll go over the...
View ArticleTeach Your Children Well; How to Defend Themselves!
As a young parent one of the things I had to deal with early on was how to keep my kids safe from all threats. Now most of the worrisome things were in the home like falling objects and hot things. But...
View ArticleImprovised Weapon Sparring; Good Training for Self-Defense!
When I was a kid watching Batman and Robin, I used to see the dynamic duo picking up common objects laying around and use them as weapons! I mean the bad guys already had weapons of some kind before...
View ArticleIs Your Karate Punch Powerful?
When I was a kid I used to watch old karate movies and I used to see the master punch the bad guy and he would go flying! As a gullible kid it seemed that karate punches were almost magical. As I...
View ArticleHEMA Dagger Sparring for Improvised Weapon Training?
As you might know from reading this website I tend to focus on self-defense over martial arts (MA). Martial arts are interesting to me in the various forms such as studio sparring, tournment fighting...
View ArticleFighting, Weapons and Critical Distance Perspectives
Maybe late one night/early morning, you are walking to your car from a night club with friends and you get attacked! What do you think your considerations would be? Do you have confidence in the way...
View ArticleMorality, Crazies, and Shootings; Can We Protect Ourselves?
How I got to the point on writing on America’s moral decline in view of self-defense is interesting I think so here goes. When I was a kid I was raised as a Roman Catholic and questions of right and...
View ArticleGang Attack! What Can I Do?
I have fond memories of my first gang attack back in the 5th grade. Me and a friend got tired of of the crowed swing sets and before the 3rd graders came to recess – we decided to take over their...
View ArticleCan Older Aged Men Train Effectively for Fighting?
[Disclaimer: This post is speaking specifically about older men or women that find themselves being threatened with lethal force by younger men or women – so a true fight or flight, if fight… it is...
View ArticleTips on how to compose an outstanding assessment and compare essay
Go through several of the best tips to compare and contrast and contrast essay authors could collect. Authoring a comparison essay is not as very hard several young people consider! Why prepare a...
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