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self-defense

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 throughout [...]

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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 study.
17% of rape or sexual assault victims [...]

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Six Key Strategies Every Martial Artist Should Know (But Most Don’t)

by Bruce Pahl October 26, 2009 Combative Sports

This article is an overview of the Free eBook entitled Six Key Strategies Every Martial Artist Should Know (But Most Don’t) that I recently wrote on how a martial artist can greatly improve his or her performance in any martial arts style or method by adding these techniques and focusing their training around these six key strategies.
The six strategies [...]

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MMA is not REAL Combat

by 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 life [...]

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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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Practical Self Defense

by 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 solid [...]

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