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Reality-Based Martial Arts

Becoming a “Domesticated Predator”

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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Stone Warrior Hand & Arm Conditioning

by Coach Bruce Pahl November 9, 2009 Combat-Fitness & Conditioning

Stone Warrior hand and arm conditioning is a necessary foundation for all martial arts training and conditioning programs. We’ve all heard the story, or seen the Kung Fu movie of the Iron Palm Master who with one palm strike could inflict internal damage or even death on their unsuspecting victims. While this may be true or just [...]

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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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The Truth In Combat

by Coach Bruce Pahl September 24, 2009 MMA/Mixed Martial Arts

The Truth in Combat is a martial philosophy and concept. This truth mindset is crucial because most people only think about their personal reality and experience and not truth. The word reality is being used all the time now in martial arts and combat but most people only have a partial understanding or a perception [...]

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MMA is not REAL Combat

by Coach Bruce Pahl August 21, 2009 Reality-Based Martial Arts

First off, all martial arts have something good to offer, but not all martial arts styles offer real life practical defensive skills. What we are looking for here is, The Truth In Combat. What I mean by this is what skills are necessary and will enable you to survive and be victorious in a REAL [...]

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Chinese Martial Arts Training

by Coach Bruce Pahl August 7, 2009 Chinese Martial Arts

The Chinese martial arts training systems have a lot to offer a person who is looking for tradition, health, fitness, functionality & fun. Chinese martial arts are some of the oldest martial arts studied today. Traditionally it has been taught that martial arts came from India and the Shaolin monks were taught combative self defense techniques and health exercises. Principles [...]

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Practical Self Defense

by Coach Bruce Pahl August 6, 2009 Reality-Based Martial Arts

I titled this article practical self defense or self protection because there is such a thing as impractical self defense. By this I mean things or techniques that won’t work in the street. 1. Punching someone with your fist to the frontal or side portion of the skull. The human fist was not made to hit a round [...]

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Jeet Kune Do Concepts

by Coach Bruce Pahl August 5, 2009 Black Belt Blog

Bruce Lee’s martial art has gone through a lot of changes over the last thirty years. All of the original Bruce Lee students are doing their own specialty art except for Jerry Poteet who has stuck with what he was originally taught. You might say that this is a good thing and you might be [...]

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