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, […]
Effective Human Incapacitation
“Effective human incapacitation results from physiological phenomena.” † The goal of life-or-death violence is complete and irrecoverable incapacitation — to remove, entirely, the person’s ability to think or move. (Preferably both.) We are not attempting to communicate, or reason with, or change the mind of the person we are breaking. We are not trying to […]