Posts tagged as:

Self Protection

BJJ For the Street

March 22nd, 2010

Craig Douglas of Shivworks.com is one of the best martial arts thinkers and teachers out there. The limited exposure I have had to him and his material has fundamentally changed the way I view self protection and combatives. This latest video of him, teaching BJJ from  the context of an armed civilian, is very good. [...]

More →

Indian Prostitutes Learn Karate

June 11th, 2009

Auntie has this brief report on prostitutes in India, and the steps they are taking to protect themselves. With some reservations about how they are training, I think this is a wonderfully positive step. Sex workers are at significantly increased risk of assault, and this seems especially so in India, where the police are far [...]

More →

Common Sense, the Nike Defence and Pepper Spray

May 27th, 2009

Image courtesy of Randy Son of Robert, on Flickr A recent post on a forum I frequent generated some interesting discussion. One of the guys from the US reconted the following anecdote A fellow I met in a bookstore in the martial arts section said this to me during a brief conversation. He had some [...]

More →

Doing something stupid?

November 9th, 2008

I have Google alerts set up for a wide range of subjects, but one of the main is Bartitsu. This wonderful Edwardian Martial Art is passion of mine, and I look after another blog on it, on behalf of the Bartitsu Society. Via this alert I today came across this article focusing, as many do, [...]

More →

Decide now, not then.

June 26th, 2008

According to Guido, the Spectator today has this little tale from Tory speechwriter Danny Kruger My wife and I were coming out of a house in Camden where we had been viewing a flat to rent. Standing on the steps with us, the owner of the flat suddenly saw the retreating rear of his moped, [...]

More →

The tool is not the solution.

May 9th, 2008

The key to self defense is to walk softly and carry a powerful tool. So says Rob on the WorthProtectionSecurity blog. He could not be more wrong. Don’t get me wrong, Rob has products to sell and a living to make, and he makes it from helping people feel safe. This a noble enterprise. However, [...]

More →