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Happy New Year! It has been a strange couple of years and society has gone through a variety of machinations--almost none of them good. ...

I recently heard a story about a girl who was abducted in Kentucky. She gave the international distress sign (I never heard of it until...

Courage is not the absence of fear, it's the ability to control fear. Easier said than done. One way to control fear is to use breath...

Paying attention to you surroundings obviates 95% of the problems. And when that fails, the ability to execute a physical solution is a...

A fixed blade knife is absolutely the best way to go. But it also opens you up to a bevy of legal issues as knife laws are archaic and...

In the words of OSS legendary instructor, William E. Fairbairn, "In close-quarters fighting there is no more deadly weapon than the knife....

I do a good deal of traveling, domestically and overseas. Many times I have to travel to a city where I cannot carry a firearm or even a...

It can happen to you. You are on your commute and unexpectedly witness a violent act before your eyes. Do you intervene? What if the...

I saw this clip in the news. An 11 year-old girl was the target of a kidnapping. She resisted and the kidnapper was later arrested. He...

Public ranges scare me. You just never know about the other shooters on the firing line. The fundamentals of safety as I learned them...

This clip is from Target Focus Training. As you know, at Guard Well we follow the teaching of Chris Ranck-Buhr, creator of Injury...

You are vulnerable to attack in the moments you get in and out of your car. Most of us lose our situational awareness in those few...

Why should a sane, civilized person learn how to injure another human being? The answer is simply because knowing how to injure is a...

This review is on the Ban Tang 2.0, Single Edge Knife by Shivworks. I like the sheath design which allows for the handle to be readily...

This happened a couple of days ago to a woman in Vancouver, Canada. She basically did everything right and was able to publicly share...

Tim Larkin is the creator of Target Focus Training. For almost 18 years, Chis Ranck-Buhr was a partner with Tim and broke off a couple...

A lot of self-defense schools emphasize getting away from the threat. Often times, that is good advice (unless you are in a teen slasher...

Violence against women in societies across the globe is too common. This video teaches some good lessons about situational awareness. ...

I first came across the term "combat mindset" during firearms training when a former Delta Force member addressed the class. Jim...

In the video below we will see a man force a woman into a car. Without knowing any of the background of the video we can learn some good...