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American Kenpo Karate Demo and Promotion Event in San Diego
Forwarding an Announcement about our organization’s event. Dick Willetts’s American Kenpo Karate Association will be have a belt promotion and demo on Sept. 20th, 2014 at the main studio located at...
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What is Your Training Method; Is it Realistic?
Most martial artists will know fellow students that study real hard for testing and then forget techniques and kata afterwards (until the next testing). Basics seem to stick with us longer because we...
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Does Karate Protect You Against an Assassin’s Attack?
I want to learn karate so I can protected myself against “any” attack! How often do you hear people saying that they can protect themselves because they know how to fight? I’ve heard it all of my...
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How to Teach New Students to Aim and Kick the Nuts?
I have been doing karate for years and have not really thought about this from a beginning students perspective recently. I had a buddy ask me my take on teaching students how to kick the groin as...
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Teaching Self Defense Techniques; Do they Really Work?
One of the questions you get as a karate instructor is does this really work? It is a strange question because you spend a lot of time teaching a student the basics, how to kick, punch, stay out of...
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What is Karate; Sport, Dancing, Fighting, Self-Defense?
Kind of an interesting title, “What is Karate…” for this article. I used to be the guy that sold dreams to people wanting to learn karate. To most Americans in the 1970′s and 1980′s, karate was a...
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Ok – So Now You Know Karate; Can You Defend Yourself? (In A Fight?)
You would not believe how often white belts (white, orange, purple, blue, green) ask me what would I do if or if I thought I could really defend myself if questions. I also see this type of question...
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Another Disappointing UFC; UFC 183 Robbed Me of $60!
How do I really feel? Ok – maybe “robbed” is a little strong because you can search out good fighters and promote events but you have no idea if the fighters are gonna dance around and seek to win by...
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Are Karate Tournaments a Good Tool to Reinforce Fighting Skills Anymore?
Back in the mid-1970′s, my instructor, Dick Willett, urged me to go to open karate tournaments to supplement my fighting skill set. You see at open tourneys, they allowed full contact to the body and...
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The Knights Templar; Who is Defending Religious Freedom Today?
In the era of modern democracies I grew up in – the thought of defending religious freedom has not come up much since World War II. Then the Nazis decided Jews and other peoples were inferior and...
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Woman Attacked – Gets Away – Self Defense or Fighting?
The title probably gives away my bias but as this is a Self-Defense Blog and I have over the years espoused the benefits of women learning self-defense as a minimum, the question by some is, “What am...
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Are the Martial Arts Effective in a Fight?
It was the mid-1980′s and I was having a conversation with an old guy I knew from another business. He owned a metal shop and the conversation got to fighting. He knew I used to own a karate school...
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Can 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...
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Gang 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...
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Morality, 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...
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Fighting, 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...
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HEMA 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...
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Is 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...
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Fewer speak, extra take note
In case you bought a call back for one last meeting on the workplace in the ambitions – it means how the rather long procedure of broadcasting resumes and progressing round in groups researching...
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Overcome the concern with truly being fired
Should you used a supreme verdict and resolved to have a proper dedication using the workplace – the next step in your case is to make a better examine some probable you will encounter rapidly....
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