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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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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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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Mar 19, 20211 min read
What can be more onerous than cleaning your weapon?
What can be more onerous than cleaning your weapon? Almost nothing. I think my Marine Corps years left me permanently scarred. We...
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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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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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Feb 13, 20211 min read
Feeling Macho at the Bar? Save it for another time...
On this site, we learn about how to impart lasting injury to an antagonist. This is very different than engaging in chest-thumping,...
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Feb 5, 20211 min read
"Nice Ideas that Get People Killed" by Chris Ranck-Buhr.
If you have been on the site for more than five minutes, you know that Guard Well Defense largely follows the teachings of Chris...
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Feb 5, 20211 min read
What would you do?
The below video is not meant to sharpshoot at the participants about what they could have or should have done. Rather, if offers a...
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Dec 6, 20201 min read
Gear Review: The "Darter" by Toor Knives and Haley Strategic
At Guard Well, we study Libre Knife Fighting as taught by founder Scott Babb and sprinkle in some Sayoc Kali from the Philippines. If...
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Nov 22, 20201 min read
Woman Assaulted and Kidnapped - Lessons Learned
It's easy for us to sit back in the comfort of home and discuss what someone could have or should have done under whatever circumstance. ...
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Nov 13, 20201 min read
Situational Awareness and Your Car
People tend to be distracted getting into and out of their cars. We are all guilty of it, even those of us who should know better. But...
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Oct 18, 20202 min read
Natural Selection
I think most people can agree that the jungle is a dangerous place. Predators hunt while the other animals hide and keep their distance....
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