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  • Martial Arts Visualization as Training Aid.

    Not only applicable to martial arts, visualization can help your training and improve your skills, as long as you avoid some pitfalls. By visualization, I mean creating a mental image of a particular situation to which you have to react. You imagine an attacker lunging at you, then imagine yourself

  • Guns are Bad, Right?

    And home invasions only happen to other people.. Caught on tape, here is why honest citizens should own guns. The home owner in this video would probably be dead if he hadn't. The robbers even had an AR-15!

  • What Goes Up...

    I stumbled upon this old article I wrote for a knife magazine, relating a little adventure I had towing an advertising banner with an ultralight airplane.. Click on the image to enlarge..

  • Systema in a Broader Sense.

    Reading William Gibson's novel, "Spook Country," I first thought of his mention of Systema as unrelated to the Russian Martial art I practice. In the novel, the protagonists are Cuban spies working with the Russians in the United States. They live by a protocol of secrecy they call Systema. I though

  • Should Self-Defense Training be Different for Men and Women?

    I just came upon an interesting article from the BBC about how men and women respond differently to danger. Nothing new here, women are more emotional than men, and that's fine. Like we say in France, "vive la différence." Our physical differences are obvious, and most martial arts consider them in