Take Five Minutes One of the things I learnt during my time in the Foreign Legion was that time spent gathering intel was very rarely wasted. It’s a lesson I teach my students and people who attend my personal safety presentations. How does it apply to civilians. When you can, take five minutes to gather information […]
Got Kids? Judo know the half of it. Here’s an article about why Judo is for kids. For those of you who’ve read my stuff in the excellent (now defunct) European martial arts magazine “Fighting Arts International” you might remember my advocating Judo before anyone in Europe or the States had heard of the
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TESTING Some schools, notably many Brazilian ju-jutsu schools, don’t test their students before giving them their rank. The instructor will often just walk up and present the student with their new belt/stripe etc. They believe, and for many who compete in tournaments this is true, that the student has tested by fighting every night on
Bump And Rob Some readers will remember the bump and rob attacks that plagued Florida back in the late eighties, early nineties. For those of you who don’t here’s how it works. The bad guys would rear end people in rental cars (which could be identified by stickers) and, when the victim got out to
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Selling Safely Recently here in Charlotte there was a double murder of an elderly couple who went to meet someone to sell their car. Selling safely is more important than at any other time due to the rise of sites like Craig’s List. A lot of people do this, especially with E-Bay and Craigslist making