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Jan 6, 20221 min read
Happy New Year...Why would you want to know how to visit violence upon another human being?
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. ...
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Nov 13, 20211 min read
The international signal for distress (and then some...)
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...
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Sep 5, 20211 min read
The Power of Breath Control
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...
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Aug 24, 20211 min read
Situational Awareness at the Gas Station
Paying attention to you surroundings obviates 95% of the problems. And when that fails, the ability to execute a physical solution is a...
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Aug 20, 20211 min read
Two Ways to Deploy a Folding Knife
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...
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Jul 31, 20211 min read
Heart without Knowledge Isn't Enough
In the words of OSS legendary instructor, William E. Fairbairn, "In close-quarters fighting there is no more deadly weapon than the knife....
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Jun 14, 20211 min read
Don't Throw Away that copy of Woman's Health!
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...
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RAM
May 30, 20212 min read
3rd Party Interventions
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...
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RAM
May 19, 20211 min read
How Quickly Can a Predator Kidnap a Child?
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...
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RAM
May 2, 20211 min read
Don't be "that guy" at the Range...
Public ranges scare me. You just never know about the other shooters on the firing line. The fundamentals of safety as I learned them...
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RAM
Apr 17, 20211 min read
Going after the Knee.
This clip is from Target Focus Training. As you know, at Guard Well we follow the teaching of Chris Ranck-Buhr, creator of Injury...
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RAM
Apr 8, 20211 min read
Your Car - Getting In & Out and Increasing your Situational Awareness
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...
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RAM
Mar 29, 20211 min read
Causing Injury - No Different than Learning to Swim?
Why should a sane, civilized person learn how to injure another human being? The answer is simply because knowing how to injure is a...
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RAM
Mar 24, 20211 min read
Gear Review-- Ban Tang 2.0 Knife by Shivworks
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...
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RAM
Mar 22, 20211 min read
You think you are being followed...what do you do?
This happened a couple of days ago to a woman in Vancouver, Canada. She basically did everything right and was able to publicly share...
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RAM
Mar 13, 20211 min read
The Groin Target
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...
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RAM
Mar 12, 20211 min read
Fight or Flee?
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...
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RAM
Mar 9, 20211 min read
Lessons-learned: Woman Attacked
Violence against women in societies across the globe is too common. This video teaches some good lessons about situational awareness. ...
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Feb 27, 20212 min read
Combat Mindset
I first came across the term "combat mindset" during firearms training when a former Delta Force member addressed the class. Jim...
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RAM
Feb 23, 20211 min read
Kidnapping: Indicators and Options
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...
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