What if’s….
I was engaged in some friendly discussion today about home invasion scenarios. We just had one in the local area, so it came up and questions about how to deal with the possibilities arose. One twist was what do you do if the person is trying to break down the door because they are [...]
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Self Defense is NOT About Learning Kata’s
If you “Google” self defense in your given city, you’re probably going to see a list of martial arts schools. Rarely will you see a school such as Defense Conditioning™ which blends unarmed and armed (firearms) tactics. I know you can get training at a dojo for nunchaku, swords, etc. But those are not things [...]
Getting Intimate with Violence
This takes up a considerable amount of my full curriculum, so it is obviously more in depth than we can go here, but I want to open this up for discussion here because there is much discussion about what to do to get your weapon out quicker to get the first shot off or stop [...]
OH….AMYGDALA!!!!
A laboratory rat was subjected to electric shock accompanied by an audible tone. Very soon, after repetitive tone/shock cycles it displayed obvious fear to the tone, even without the shock. This is a simple example of an auditory association. But even after the auditory cortex was removed from its brain, effectively rendering the rat absolutely [...]
“Front Sight…”
“Front Sight,…”
The foundation of all open sight shooting (which means shooting without a scope or other sighting aid other than the original sights mounted by the manufacturer) is finding the front sight when you raise the gun to shoot. Once the front sight is in your view you will instantly know the basic direction you [...]
Amygda What ?!!!
I had just come to a stop when they pulled into my driveway directly behind me. Their headlights were set to high beams and I couldn’t see them for the glare in the rearview mirror. Chris was always showing up in a hurry, vehemently telling me to “get ready, we’re going out”. By the time [...]
“Front Sight, Squeeze, Follow Through”
“Front Sight, Squeeze, Follow Through….”
This sounds like very basic instruction for a novice shooter. You may expect to hear this in a concealed carry class or even a basic firearms familiarization course. What many fail to understand about this saying, this concept, is that it applies to every level of shooting. There is a plaque [...]




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