Sometimes, Almost always, your brain can avoid a situation your fists will find hard to crack… Drink only from safe looking containers you opened (water bottles, alcohol ) and only if saw the drink being brewed in a safe looking establishment in front of you (coffee, tea, beer). Give your details to no one… Read More Twenty five tips on preventative self defense
Here are ten EDC “items” you may not consider tactical but are of outmost importance. A trusted friend or family member – Even John Wayne went to war with an army. Team work can beat almost anything. A good pet – Cats and dogs can be a great warning/warming/hunting pal that you do not have… Read More Ten EDC “items” that keep you safe
Complicated things are made of simpler and simpler things ? Let’s assume they are all the same and see how this works. Avoid learning how to open all keys and instead learn how a house is made. Let us take a push to the back of the head and play with it and see if… Read More One simple push
Being attune and in the moment is simple but not easy. Here are three games to play to increase your natural tuning to what others and you are doing. Close your eyes and touch your partner in the chest. Count their breaths to ten and push on the ten. Verify that you counted well and… Read More 3 Breath awareness drills to dive inside with
I was usually victorious in the playground. I held my own against ones and twos and threes. I once faced six older bigger boys and they won. They won the first. They did not win the second. Figure that as you will. A side note: If you consider the tone harsh, you may not… Read More Small bullies
There are two great observation tools we have but we mostly point them toward the outside. Our ears and vibration sense throughout the body will grant us great insight on our emotions, reaction and movement if we just pay attention. Start as you are still laying down to sleep. Feel your own pulse wherever it… Read More Listen to yourself
Three year old children don’t need to learn about war ? I disagree. Children who are in a world that is always new and challenging, a world where they are usually weak and lack in body and mind toward the competition they need to study war. They just need a better approach than adults to… Read More PLAY WAR
Breathe and continue to breathe. That is harder than it seems. 🙂 Lets go through three experiences and work on our capacity to maintian calm under pressure and to choose how to use the energy that comes from this pressure. Close your eyes and focus on your breath. Have one or more partners push you… Read More The eye of the storm – calm under pressure
In this video we follow a wider mindset. Instead of trying to control the situation, we work to be aware and thus control ourselves and further more. Instead of focusing on our motives and moves, we aim to see the reflection of the other within ourselves. If you know the enemy and know yourself you… Read More Instead of technique – become the air
Here are ways to increase your awareness without increasing the energy we put into it. It is easy to be super vigilant for a few seconds and then go back to sleep. Choose instead to grind the wheel a little bit each day. Keep your sword sharp or grow rust. These are tweaks and small… Read More Increase your basic level of awareness
