I am often asked that question. Can someone who hasn’t spent years fighting teach you anything about self-defense? Well aside from the first glaring error that fighting is not self-defense, the answer is “It depends.” It depends on something very specific. Below is my answer to someone who asked this very question.**********The answer lies in the information, not necessarily … [Read more…]
There are no experts here. To recap the last post and the comments on the last post- A “High level conversations” isn’t a matter of knowledge or experience, not in this field. Knowledge and experience never hurt of course. Not ‘never.’ If the experience is overblown or misremembered or poorly extrapolated it can go bad. … [Read more…]
The Group Monkey Dance (GMD) is a show of group solidarity. There are two levels, at least. In the lowest level an outsider is discouraged from interfering with group business—it is a way of establishing territory. Families are tight-knit groups. Domestic violence incidents are acts within the group. Sometimes, when the police intervene, both … [Read more…]
Some martial artists, male and female, get very confused or even upset when Women’s Self Defense is singled out as separate from other forms of Self Defense. At CRGI, we mostly agree that there are enough fundamental differences to single out Women’s Self Defense as its own subject with its own unique issues. The … [Read more…]
As I write this, it’s been nearly 15 years since I was last shot at (I returned the favor that time). It’s been about 16 years since I last had someone try and ram a knife in my guts. It’s been over 12 years since I’ve had to lay hands on someone to emphasize my … [Read more…]