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...
View ArticleCOUNTER 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...
View ArticleCOUNTER 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...
View ArticlePsyching 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...
View ArticleControlling 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...
View ArticleActive 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...
View ArticleClinching: 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...
View ArticleTHE 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleStreet 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...
View ArticleYou’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...
View ArticleAre 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...
View ArticleTHE 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,...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleCOMBATIVE 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)...
View ArticleCOMBATIVE 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...
View ArticleKi, 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....
View ArticleAre 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...
View ArticleTHE 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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