I have a student who argues with me. Not often, but often enough. We'll be drilling a combination, and he'll stop after the first strike and look at me like…

Self-defense isn't just about learning to fight back. It's about recognizing threats, protecting yourself, and knowing that when violence occurs, someone will stand up for you. When colleges and universities…

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It started in 1981 as a single "Day of Unity" organized by the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. By 1989, Congress made it a…

I've been teaching self-defense for 25 years. I teach people to strike, to escape, to fight when they have to. I teach sexual assault prevention. And I'm going to tell…

Violence is chaos. That's not a metaphor — it's the definition. It arrives without a schedule, it doesn't care what you had planned, and it refuses to follow the shape…

A student came to me with a question that had been bothering him for days. He was out with his wife when he watched a security guard trying to subdue…

I say it in almost every class I teach. Students nod. Then they walk over to the bag and spend twenty minutes trying to knock it across the room. I…

I have a student who started with me in privates a few weeks back. Good student. Pays attention. Asks the right questions. He'd been working one-on-one, making real progress, and…

Watch a tai chi master move. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is forced. The hand doesn't arrive at a position. It flows there, and by the time you notice it has…

A private student pushed back on me a few weeks ago. Ten minutes in, I told him we were reviewing the defense against a two-handed choke against the wall. He…