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Paladin Author Receives Writing Fellowship

Michael Morse, author of the Paladin book Rescuing Providence, was recently named one of three recipients of the prestigious MacColl Johnson Fellowship from The Rhode Island Foundation. One of the...

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COUNTER CONFINEMENT AND ANTI-GRAPPLING: Working from Extreme Close Quarters,...

by Lee Morrison Over the next several weeks in this three-part series on defending yourself when working from confinement and in restricted spaces. I’d like to demonstrate several examples of how to...

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COUNTER CONFINEMENT AND ANTI-GRAPPLING: Working from Extreme Close Quarters,...

by Lee Morrison On April 4, 2013, Paladin Press ran the first of this three-part series on working from confinement and in restricted spaces. In these installments, I’m presenting several examples of...

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Psyching Up

by Loren W. Christensen Whether you’re about to face a formidable martial arts opponent, serve a high-risk warrant, or search a house in some hot, dusty town in the Middle East, there are several ways...

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Controlling Fear for Cops and Security Professionals

by Loren W. Christensen It begins with ingraining. From day one, you’re taught to go toward the trouble. You learned it in your initial training, from senior people and peers, and it was reinforced...

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Active Training vs. Passive Training

by Mark Hatmaker OK, here’s the scene: you’re driving along in your car, and you’ve got the music cranked. You’re navigating the roads just fine, negotiating curves, keeping it between the lines, not...

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Clinching: No Such Thing as Dirty Fighting

by Loren W. Christensen   Sometimes you got to do what you got to do with what you got. For example, in Fighting in the Clinch, co-authored with Mark Mireles, I talk about a fight between two men, one...

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THE LYMAN REPORT: Citadel, 70 Years After

by Ray Lyman More than two decades ago the Soviet Union, the world’s largest land empire, died under the weight of its own internal contradictions and ceased to exist as a multinational state, the...

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The Sometimes Unreality of Dead Bodies and Combat

by Loren W. Christensen   Dead Bodies The first dead body I saw in Vietnam during my tour as a military policeman was an American soldier who had drowned in a swimming pool. My partner and I had been...

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On Sheep, Sheepdogs, and Wolves

(Excerpted from Warriors: Expanded and Updated Edition: More on Living with Courage, Discipline, and Honor by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Loren W. Christensen.) One Vietnam veteran, an old retired...

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Street Combatives Involving Impact Weapons

by Lee Morrison In this blog we are going to cover one serious element relating to street combatives: dealing with weapons. Of course, this topic covers an array of things but dynamics are the tool of...

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You’re Turning 30, 40, 50, 60 . . .

Lifting weights can help you retain your muscle mass at any age. Photo: iStock/KellyJHall. by Loren W. Christensen When I passed the big 3-oh many years ago, I began to wonder how long I would hold on...

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Are You Training from a Prey or Predatory Perspective?

By Lee Morrison As well meaning as a lot of street-oriented methods of reality-based self-protection may be, in terms of offering the trainee basic street-smart advice backed up with good physical...

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THE LYMAN REPORT: Casting a Long Shadow

An expression of defeat is revealed on the face of this officer of the French Foreign Legion at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. by Ray Lyman The last hundred years, the most violent in recorded human history,...

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How to Develop Callused Knuckles

by Loren W. Christensen To toughen or not to toughen the knuckles has been debated in the martial arts for years.     Consider the following Q & A.   Q: Is it absolutely necessary to build thick...

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COMBATIVE PRINCIPLES, Part 2: The High-Low Principle

by Lee Morrison As I discussed last week, in Urban Combatives we employ many combative principles, much like many other good, reputable methods of combatives or reality-based self-defense (RBSD)...

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COMBATIVE PRINCIPLES, Part 3: Flanking

by Lee Morrison   For the past two weeks I  have been discussing some of the combative principles we use in Urban Combatives.  These principles and concepts often offer a workable solution for a myriad...

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Ki, Chi, or Kung Foo-ee?

iStock/Odysseus_xb by Loren W. Christensen   During my 49 years of training in the martial arts, I’ve heard dozens of absurd stories about ki and chi power, and witnessed many fake demonstrations....

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Are You Ready?

by Loren W. Christensen   One night a 51-year-old nurse returned home after working the emergency room in one of the local hospitals in my city. She had taken only a couple of steps into her dark house...

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THE LYMAN REPORT: The Hidden History of D-Day

by Ray Lyman Seventy years after the invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, Allied Supreme Commander General Eisenhower’s simple order to “go” at the crucial staff conference on the morning of 5 June...

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