January is National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month. What’s a better way to start the new year than by learning how to defend yourself or by refreshing what you already know? Below, we have comp[…]

One of the latest teaching methods in college and university speech and communication departments is to videotape students while they’re giving speeches. The purpose is to show them what they did well[…]

Many students ask what is the single fundamental they should practice in order to improve marksmanship. Although there are many building blocks necessary to formulate a good shot, the one fundamental […]

After many years of talking about it, I recently joined the world of RV owners. While my wife was busy planning what household items we would need to buy to stock it, I looked at it from a risk-assess[…]

Whether because of rioting or mass evacuations caused by natural disasters, law-abiding citizens need to be prepared to exit danger zones by utilizing backroads to find safety. It doesn’t matter if yo[…]

My kids are getting excited about trick-or-treating for Halloween. And I am busy scouring social media advertisements for school fall festivals, Halloween events at local parks and trunk-or-treat opti[…]

If you ever hear the command “Police, don’t move!” or “Police, stop!” spoken in a loud and authoritative tone, know that you could be seconds away from losing your life if you fail to react appropriat[…]

What does “a portion of the person” mean? It means utilizing joint manipulations by adopting locking techniques that control your attacker’s leg, ankle, wrist, fingers, elbows or other parts. Add pres[…]

Illegal modifications to your defensive firearm or handgun can obviously get you into some trouble. But what about legal modifications? If you’re involved in a self-defense shooting using modified gun[…]

The best defensive weapon against a knife attack is your legally carried and concealed firearm. However, as is emphasized often in this series, you might sometime find yourself disarmed by circumstanc[…]

One of the most neglected aspects of defensive knife training is the skill necessary to actually get your knife into the fight. Just like drawing a handgun, you must be able to draw your knife quickly[…]

At the end of delivering a 40-hour train-the-trainer program in Quantico, Virginia, I asked the newly trained federal instructors if there were any questions. One student asked a question about self-d[…]