Featured Personal Defense Training Combatives 101: Learning Defensive Footwork Angles—Movement is Life By Waysun Johnny Tsai True story, the more fights you get into, the greater the chance you have of getting punched in the face.... Read more »
Featured Personal Defense Real World Training for Self-Defense on the Street By Waysun Johnny Tsai Let’s set the stage. Every martial art has street-effective moves as well as that “fluffy-would-never-work-in-a-street fight” stuff made for film... Read more »
Featured Personal Defense Everything You Need to Know About Drink Spiking & How to Prevent It By Madison Heim Spiking a drink is the act of putting either drugs or alcohol into someone’s beverage without that person knowing. Drink... Read more »
Featured Gear Personal Defense Over-the-Counter Tear Gas Pen Guns: A Blast From the Past By Personal Defense World It’s tough to appreciate how much the world has changed in my lifetime. Nowadays, twenty-nine of our fifty states allow... Read more »
Featured Personal Defense Shooting 101 Training Budo of the Bullet: Gunfighting Methodologies Based in Samurai Virtues By Fred Mastison A quick search online will lead you to countless trainers, books, and videos, all pushing their gunfighting methodologies. Some make... Read more »
Legal News Self-Defense and the Law: When Bad Trial Strategy Turns Self-Defense to Murder By Massad Ayoob Most of the time, the system works, and justified self-defense shootings are recognized as such. Sometimes, however, they do result... Read more »
Guns Handguns Semi-Automatic Handguns Discount Defense: 5 Defensive Handguns Even a Budget Could Love By Joel T. Nadler Guns are not cheap. When asked what gun someone should carry, my go-to quick response was often the following: “Find... Read more »
Featured Shooting 101 Training Is a Truck Gun Really a Good Idea? It Sounds Cool. But Is It? By Dave Bahde The firearms training world is loaded with “sayings” or anecdotes that sound great. Some are meaningful, most are more myth... Read more »
Featured Personal Defense Basic Combatives: Blocking Part 2—Basic Methods to Block a Punch By Waysun Johnny Tsai Blocking a punch is a lot simpler than it seems. A perfectly placed and well-timed palm, forearm, or elbow is... Read more »
Featured Personal Defense Belting it Out: Using Your Belt as an Improvised Self-Defense Weapon By Michael D'Angona Carrying a weapon for self-defense is always a wise idea. They are sometimes given as gifts, bought at local gun... Read more »
