We live in a time when criminals have taken to placing victims in trunks. This could be the trunk of your own vehicle after a carjacking, or could be the trunk of their car in an attempted kidnapping. It is important for all people to know what to do if they were to ever find themselves in this dark and scary place.

When talking about martial arts and martial arts self defense, there is a rather longstanding debate about the hand strike.  Is it better to strike with an open hand or a closed fist?  Over the years, as more martial arts styles have become main stream, the training in regards to the hand strike [...]

Throughout your adult life, you have likely heard the terms “aggressive”, “passive” and “assertive”.  Sometimes these terms are combined, such as “passive aggressive”.  This particular one has nothing to do with your self defense training (sometimes misspelled self defence training), thankfully.  What chaos if we had to [...]

A friend of mine who is former military Special Forces always jokes about the three rules of conduct.  He says Rule #1 is: Look Cool.  Rule #2 is: Know where you’re at.  Rule #3 is: If you don’t know where you’re at, look cool.
This is meant to be funny; [...]

Ok, so I’ve briefly covered the drugs associated with a not so new form of rape; and now I will cover some of the things you can do to avoid date rape.  The issue of date rape isn’t always related to drugs.  Not every date rape incident is accompanied [...]

If you are someone you know if headed off to begin their bright future at college, you may wonder what in the world date rape has to do with such a positive part of life.  I completely understand that all good intentions are not to go to college to [...]

First, I want to say that what I post here for college students could easily be used for any woman who ventures out of the house for work or socializing.  Self defense is for everyone; but the interesting thing is that, while men and women can utilize the same [...]

All around the United States, young adults are preparing to embark on a new phase in life.  Heading off to college is exciting for most college students.  They are thinking about their new classes and the new friends they will make.  The mind of the new college student is [...]

So you’ve trained in the martial arts for years at the local school in your neighborhood. In just about every strip mall in every city in America, martial arts studios open their doors wide to [...]

When you walk down the street, your mind is absorbing some of what goes on around you. Not nearly enough, most of the time, or there would be far fewer victims in the world [...]