easy-digital-downloads domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/erikphillip/public_html/conflictresearchgroupintl.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121It is not the student’s responsibility to understand you. It is your responsibility to make yourself understood. It is rare in martial arts or self-defense that junior instructors are given any training in how to teach. You earn your black belt (sometimes not even that) and you step into a teaching role. (Part of … [Read more…]
How you tell a thing is at least as important as what you tell. http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2011/06/tried-by-twelve.html Preface– I am not an attorney. I am a Use of Force instructor. Don’t construe this as legal advice. It might surprise you, but I don’t teach SD legalities as a decision making course. Truth is, things are likely to … [Read more…]
How you tell a thing is at least as important as what you tell. You can be 100% right, and tell the story in such a way that it alienates the jury, or the media, or your prospective customers. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCj0IfpFjqY A group I am a member of put out this video for … [Read more…]
“From my place at the front of the room I have complete responsibility to speak clearly and with fearless honesty. I accept full responsibility for communicating with my students and for seeing to it that the message does get through. But that 100% responsibility on my shoulders does not lighten the student’s responsibility at all.The … [Read more…]
People are always asking me about pre-attack indicators. Here is the #1 pre-attack indicator: YOU’RE BEING AN ASSHOLE! With that simple line, I figured out something that has been bothering me for years. Something that it took Conflict Communications (http://www.conflictcommunications.com ) to put into perspective. When it comes to violence, there has always been something … [Read more…]
I’d rather be judged by 12, than carried by six … When someone mouths this cliché, I have a hard time keeping my cool. Because most people’s understanding of the concept means the next 12 people they come across will be the 12 dudes raping them in the prison showers.Now, I really don’t care about the … [Read more…]
Get a cup of coffee, this is gonna be a discussion of another long, complex subject. And I mean a real long one. (No lie, I mean it’s REALLY long.) I always enjoy pointing folks to a study done at Emory University. People — who identified themselves as either liberals or conservatives — were put … [Read more…]
When it comes to self-defense, many people want one-stop-shopping. Man, if they know this one ultimate martial art style, it’s is all they need. I hear this a lot. Usually in the form of being asked, ‘which martial art style is best for self-defense?’ Or ‘what do you think about (fill in the blank) for … [Read more…]
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…]
This blog can be used as a tool by anyone who wants to teach self-defense and effective rape prevention to women. It also will help folks who have ever been accused of ‘blaming the victim’ because they dared ask the very reasonable question: “What was she doing there in the first place?” Get yourself a … [Read more…]