Action & Silence: How to Dress for Violence
We have a very simple dress code for seminar training — baggy, loose-fitting blue jeans and a heavy-duty, plain white T-shirt — and yet this generates a surprising amount of pushback from clients. They want to wear yoga pants, tactical BDUs, board shorts, anything but blue jeans; they show up in cute tops, T-shirts festooned […]
A Difference You Can Taste
In the 28 years I’ve been teaching, the most common question I’ve heard is: “How is what you do different from self-defense, self-protection, or fighting?” (The question is usually about specific schools or popular styles, examples of which I refuse to list for reasons you’ll find at the end.) The simplest answer is: “Injury. We’re […]
Keeping It Simple
In nature, everything takes from something else. There is no evil and there is no innocence. The relationship of predator and prey is a fixed equation, but the variables can be fluid. One day you are predating on a blueberry bush, the next day you’re lunch. So all animals, even apex predators like grizzly bears, […]