Previously I discussed the social barriers that often stand in the way of teaching children realistic self-protection. In this article we look at what I believe we should be teaching children in the context of realistic self-protection, but first let us look at how these barriers, if we let them, severely impede our honest intentions. […]
“Why”: the dreaded single syllable word that a child can use repeatedly to raise an adult’s temperature and stretch his comfortable and established philosophies of logic, reason and beliefs to breaking point. I have seen many an adult reduced to a blubbering mess or a ranting dictator, as he tries to explain and justify his […]
SAMBO, type of sport wrestling, permitting the application of painful holds; also a means of self-defense in a fight against a stronger or armed enemy. (Composed of an abbreviated form of the word SAM-B-O are SAM [SAMozashchita (Rus) – self-defense (Eng)] , B [Bez (Rus) – with out (Eng)] and O [Oruzhiya (Rus)- weapons (Eng) […]
Most of us within the Combatives fraternity have heard the quote from Kelly McCann where he defines the above question by saying something along the lines of "The difference between martial arts and Combatives, is that martial art is something that you do with someone, in other words there is this reciprocal exchange of movement […]
Bob Sykes of Martial Arts Illustrated Interviews Jamie Clubb about his New Ground-Breaking DVD 1. Where did the concept for the DVD “Cross Training in the Martial Arts” derive? I have always been what the quasi-traditionalists affectionately call a dojo-hopper or martial whore. I suppose that stems from the fact that some of my earliest martial […]
This issue of the Record of Service is about Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky who served with a very early group of irregular soldiers known as the Forest Rangers. The Forest Rangers date back over 140 years to the New Zealand Wars where they proved the worth of their guerrilla type warfare. There were other Ranger […]
In 1937 I was born in the City Road Hospital, London, and within the sound of the Bow Bells, this made me what is known as a true cockney. My Mother was born in Ireland, and my Father was born in the midlands of England, a place known as Bolton in Lancashire. Dad was not […]
For a very small country we are proud of the fact that no fewer than ten World's heavyweight Wrestling Champions have paid us a visit (I wrote this story in 1973 so it does not include the more recent Champions like Rick Flair, Harley Race, Jack Brisco and Giant Baba). At the turn of the […]
The Prevalent State of Mind It’s apparent that the prevalent state of mind regarding self defense lies predominantly in the “active” zone. In saying such it should automatically clue us in that there is room for improvement in the so called “passive” zone. Each means and method is unique unto that zone. Neither is better […]
The room is silent. I stand with my eyes shut, trying to remain relaxed. The atmosphere might appear calm, but I know something is about to happen. I wait in complete darkness, in an almost forced meditative state, for what seems like ages. "G'me your money now!" A man slaps a choke on me and […]