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Grant Bacon

Becoming a “Domesticated Predator”

by Grant Bacon December 2, 2009 Reality-Based Martial Arts

Combatives/combat tactics, most authors commonly warn the readers of their articles and books that no matter how well-trained and well-prepared someone may be for combat and protecting oneself, they will never be more prepared than the predators committing these terrible acts of violence. I wish to espouse a different theory.  Man in today’s society and [...]

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REAL Women’s Self-Protection and Awareness

by Grant Bacon November 27, 2009 Self Protection

REAL Women’s Self-Protection and Awareness One rape or sexual assault occurs every two minutes. One violent crime occurs every five seconds in the U.S. 172 Women are physically and/or sexually assaulted every hour 261,000 rapes and sexual assaults occurred in the U.S. in 2000. 90,186 forcible rapes in 2000 as reported to police. In the year 2000, 2.8 % of college women experienced rape in a six month U.S. Department of Justice [...]

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Combat Muay Thai (Muay Boron) Part II

by Grant Bacon November 10, 2009 Combative Sports

4. DEFENSE – A) Blocking/covering (both traditional boxing covers, and a modified Thai covering which allows the defensive cover to be used very effectively as an offensive maneuver).  B) Parrying/“hand-tapping” C) Slipping/“head movement” D) Ducking E) Bobbing and Weaving F) Static “Thai”/Shin-check G) Moving/Dynamic “Thai”/Shin-check H) Knee destruction (“Thai” Leg-Shielding, but instead of using the [...]

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Combat Muay Thai (Muay Boron) Part I

by Grant Bacon November 4, 2009 Muay Thai

It is often very evident that people forget that the meaning of the word “martial” is military or combative.  This Means that many martial arts were taught for the purpose of allowing practitioners to excel and succeed in combative endeavors (though not all “martial arts” that exist today were in fact historically “martial” in nature).  [...]

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Achieving Martial Synthesis

by Grant Bacon August 11, 2009 Combative Sports

Mixing of the martial arts, and “Mixed Martial Arts”, as a fighting style in and of itself is all the rage right now.  Hardly anyone wants to train in a single art anymore and even fewer want to train in any singular “traditional” martial style. The excitement and brutality offered for consumer/viewer consumption, on a [...]

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Controlled-Focused-Fury Part 2

by Grant Bacon July 6, 2009 Reality-Based Martial Arts

CONTROLLED FOCUSED FURY PART 2  The focus in this martial philosophy means that you should be focused on the moment at hand; your situation, and the circumstances (opponent/opponents, weapons, environment, etc); and on what you need to do to achieve the desired outcome.  You cannot lose your focus in any way; it cannot be split; [...]

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Controlled-Focused-Fury

by Grant Bacon July 6, 2009 Reality-Based Martial Arts

INTRODUCTION: In this two part article we will discuss a martial philosophy called; Controlled Focused Fury. CFF translates to, and can be applied to any combative situation, but for the purposes of this particular article will be framed as it applies to self-protection applications.  This article will explain what the concept of CFF is. Controlled-Focused-Fury is not a  new [...]

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