In the last five years, there has been a 28% increase in martial-arts participants to 6.9 million. By comparison, tennis saw a rise of 8% to 18.3 million and golf declined 14% to 25.7 million. Source: SGMA International
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Use Visualization to Train for Life-and-Death Situations
December 13, 2005 mindset, quote, training » Add the first comment.
“Believing that you can wait until a dangerous situation presents itself to adjust your mind to survival awareness is a pipe dream. Under stress the mind and body performs the way it has been trained. If you played football through your school years and had a week of hand to hand combat or [...] Read more »
Lessons For Winning a Street Fight
To win a street fight or any other self-defense situation,Kurt Brinegar of the Terre Haute Police Department says: Train hard; Know your equipment; Never let your guard down Never underestimate the suspect [opponent]; Never give up.
Add Realism to Your Self-Defense Training
October 4, 2005 self-defense, training » Add the first comment.
Fight to win. Train to fight. A “street fight” sparring session this weekend with a select handful of training partners opened up some eyes. One of the “sport” oriented fighters found himself seriously behind the curve when the hitting began. A couple of slight adjustments solved the problem, but probably because he is very [...] Read more »
Combat Training Must be Integrated
September 12, 2005 quote, self-defense, training » Add the first comment.
“As far back as man has kept record of training practices, lessons learned in combat and training, we can see that there is, and must be, an integrated approach to combatives. It has always been a FIGHT, not a gunfight, fistfight, knifefight or stickfight. It’s a fight. James Riggs understood this, as did George Swift, [...] Read more »
Review: If the DVD Marketing Hype is Too Good to Be True
July 29, 2005 review, training » Add the first comment.
I was recently asked to review a self-defense instructional DVD series. The person that requested the review had already purchased them and wanted to know what I thought of the techniques being shown. Reviewing a set of DVDs after their purchase is a little unusual, since most people rely on reviews before they [...] Read more »