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Articles about learning self-defense (0-50 of 284)
- Who Needs Self Defense Training? Ask Any Rape Victim
By: Matthew McKernan | - When there's a blade at your throat and some worthless piece of crap that reeks of alcohol, sweat, and garbage tells you to do what he says or he'll slit your throat, will you think about how you were too busy for that self defense seminar? When you hear the screams of your family members down the hall and all you can do is tell them not to be afraid, because there is a gun against your skull will you think about that weapons disarm you were to busy to learn? When they've taken your money, your ...
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- Techniques For Self-defense - A Few Ways To Help You Avoid Being A Victim
By: Carolyn Anderson | - Learning skills to defend yourself in times of attack is important nowadays, not only for women but for men and women who are in jobs that require them to defend themselves from time to time. Whether you are a cop, a bouncer or just an ordinary citizen who wants to protect yourself, learning some techniques for self-defense is indeed important.
Of course, you can do something to avoid being a victim. You don't have to build big muscles for long years to be able to defend yourself. ...
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- Learning Self-defense - Some Tips, Techniques And Ideas In Learning Self-defense
By: Carolyn Anderson | - Learning self-defense is one thing that you might find important to protect you from bad elements in the society. Learning to defend yourself in any situation is indeed one good way to prevent yourself from being a victim of attack.
You might have seen these self-defense moves in popular movies and you may have seen how a smaller man take down a much bigger man or how a woman topple a man down with just one easy move. Indeed, learning self-defense does not always mean having big ...
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- Ways To Defend Yourself - Self-defense Techniques And Tips
By: Carolyn Anderson | - Whether you are a cop, a bouncer, or a guard, learning self-defense techniques can be of great help in protecting yourself from harm and danger. Even if you are just an ordinary person, learning ways to defend yourself is one good thing to learn to fight off bad elements in our society.
Self-defense does not necessarily mean building those big muscles for years. It does not always mean being stronger that your attackers but it can be learning the smart way to deal with situations ...
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- Self Defense Ã"'"€œ Best Tips
By: Jim Wilkinson | - There are many things you can do in order to practice proper self defense and personal protection techniques. These things include learning, practice, being aware of your surroundings, and much more. These tips can help to keep you safe.
There are many tips and tricks you can learn when it comes to self defense. You should learn as much as you can so that when you are approached by an attacker you have what it takes to fight off the person. You can learn through local self defense i ...
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- How To Learn Self Defense Techniques At Home
By: Jack Krohn | - There is no doubt the world is a scary and dangerous place. You might be concerned for your own safety or that of your family or other loved ones. No one likes to feel vulnerable and no one wants to be a victim.
Owning and learning how to use self defense products like stun guns and pepper sprays are a great start for a self defense program. Another suggestion is to learn some basic self defense techniques at home.
There are a multitude of DVDs to choose from to s ...
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- Self Defense And Home Security Tips-free Vip Newsletter
By: Jack Krohn | - Your personal and family's safety and security have got to be on top of your list of priorities. But how much do you really know about home security and self defense products? If you are like most folks not to much! And that is not a slam against you.
Perhaps you recognize the need to have a valued resource-a place to turn to get information from an expert, a place to turn to get answers to simple or complex questions, a nationally recognized blog and a place that offers special ...
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- You Will Pay A Price For Not Learning Self Defense
By: Mike McCoy | - It is common for people to weigh the pros and cons of an activity before committing to engaging in it. In other words, most logical people perform some form of a cost-benefit analysis before deciding to invest time and money into a new activity. This rule generally applies when people consider whether or not to learn the art of self defense.
However, although many people have a pretty good understanding of what the benefits may be, they do not fully realize the costs of not le ...
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- You Can Learn The Art Of Self Defense In No Time
By: Mike McCoy | - When you think of martial arts you most likely conjure up images of Bruce Lee, or other Hollywood actors, performing advanced and highly difficult maneuvers. While this is most certainly an aspect of martial arts that is difficult to overlook, there is quite a bit more to martial arts than this. Put even better, there is quite a bit less to martial arts than this. In other words, the showy and technical maneuvers are fun to learn (and even more fun to watch), but it is possible to learn pract ...
Tags: Captain Chris Pizzo, Close Combat Training, Martial Arts, Self Defense, Pressure Points, Street Figh
- Choosing The Best Style For Self-defense
By: Calasanz Martinez | - I'm often asked the question "what is the best martial art style that I could study if my goal is self-defense?" The answer is that there is no one martial art that I would say is the best for learning self-defense. Every style has its advantages and disadvantages when it comes to their effectiveness on the street. Learning self-defense and studying a martial art are two different things. You study the art for art's sake, while the goal of self-defense is to learn how to protect yourself on ...
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- Stuff Your Self Defense Instructor Probably Doesn't Know!-00-535
By: Steven Gib | - Believe it or not, there are many unqualified blackbelts and self defense instructors giving advice and teaching stuff that could get you killed. Worst of all, these people have never been in a life or death fight and have no valid or real experience when it comes to fighting.
Rule #1 - You should always interview a potential martial arts or fighting instructor before you join the dojo. You want to put them through an interview process finding out what qualifies them to teach you. ...
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- 5 Self Defense Fighting Secrets!-00-495
By: Steven Gib | - Today I will uncover 5 different points you should know about self defense fighting. These are real facts and cold hard truths when it comes to fighting. If you want to stay alive in an altercation here are some facts to help you win and stay alive.
Self defense fighting #1 - If you are being threatened by a mugger holding a weapon and he wants your wallet, give it to him. It's better to give a potentially violent person your money and credit cards you can cancel. Whats would be t ...
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- Defend Yourself With Stun Guns - How To Choose The Right Self Defense Weaopon
By: Joy Fender | - A stun gun is a kind of real weapon or an electro shock weapon that has the capacity to disable an individual for a brief period of time with the help of electric shock that can disable a person through contact. Stun guns are the best kinds of self defense weapons that won't end up murdering your adversary and yet leave him shocked enough to help you escape from his clutches.
Stun guns are useful items for policemen, bounty hunters, men and women who have to work till late in th ...
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- Unarmed Self Defense- Fact Or Fantasy?
By: Mike McCoy | - Many people have the deep misunderstanding about martial arts that it is only used by violent individuals. However, martial arts are not intended to be practiced in street fighting and the likes thereof. Rather, martial arts are categorized as such because they are in fact an art. And like other arts, martial arts can and should be used skillfully and appropriately. When looked at in this light, it should be apparent that martial arts can be learned by anybody who has an interest not in viol ...
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- Learning Self Defense Starts In Your Head
By: Mike McCoy | - It seems that you can't turn on the news these days without seeing at least one story about an innocent victim who was robbed, bullied, or beaten by one or more aggressor. To think that you are immune to this type of treatment is naive if not foolish. The fact is that nobody is immune to the ill behavior of others. Quite to the contrary, we never know when we will be susceptible to the attacks of violent individuals. It is in these instances that understanding the basics of self defense is a ...
Tags: Captain Chris Pizzo, Close Combat Training, Martial Arts, Self Defense, Pressure Points, Street Figh
- Pepper Spray Training A Few Useful Self Defense Tips 1
By: Bryan Robinson 11 | - Pepper spray can be very effective in helping someone out of a potentially dangerous situation, however possessing a canister of pepper spray and using it improperly could cause more problems than solutions.
MOST IMPORTANT: No matter what type of pepper spray you own, you must always first be aware of your surroundings. Always have your pepper spray accessible to you in case you need it in an instant. Pepper spray is useless if it is in the bottom of a purse, or left in your vehic ...
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- Front Sight's Color Code Of Mental Awareness Can Save Your Life
By: EmmySue Pryor | - Front Sight Firearms Training Institute wants to help people save lives. In Santa Clara this week, there was a shooting at the offices of SiPort Inc., leaving three people dead. Proper self defense training could have possibly kept those three people alive.
Police say that on Friday afternoon, 47 year old Jing Hua Wu walked into one of the buildings and shot the victims and then escaped the scene before police arrived. He was found and arrested on Saturday. He had been let go fro ...
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- Why Self Defense And Martial Arts Are So Mental-00-535
By: Al Landry | - Any martial arts instructor can teach you the basic techniques of self defense fairly quickly. After all, these techniques are simple and straight forward. It isn't as crazy as the stuff you see in the movies. It isn't about jumping in the air and doing a 360 degree turn and kicking someone four times before you land. It is as easy as reaching out and poking someone in the eye.
The techniques are the easy part. The difficult part of learning self defense is in your mind. It's abou ...
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- Womens Self Defense Tips "€" Do You Really Need This Stuff ?
By: SandMart | - How important is to 'YOU' to learn how to defend yourself? How important is it to 'YOU' to just learn some basics on developing your awareness to keep you safe?
Many would be on the side of the fence which believes in growing their knowledge, skills and awareness. These are the people that would be happy to invest time and money to visit a local self defense/martial arts experts and keep up on their self defense education.
On the other side of the fence you hav ...
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- How To Defend Yourself From Attackers
By: Joy Fender | - With the different self-defense weapons offered in the market today, it becomes even more difficult to decide on what is the most effective product to guard yourself against your ruthless attackers. It is important that you should be armed with self-defense weapons especially if you are a woman so you can protect yourself from any danger and not be one of the innocent victims of these criminals.
The most common crime on the streets today is robbery. So, to protect yourself and yo ...
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- Hey 1950 Called... They Want Their Martial Art Back!
By: Matthew McKernan | - Most people know me as President of The Self Defense Company providing practical simple, easy to learn self defense training programs. But I am also a life long grappler both on the collegiate and international level. It seems that grappling has found its way back into the good graces of the martial arts community. Since 1990 the UFC, Brazilian Jujitsu and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) has found its place to the main stage. Now every wrestler willing to get punched and choke has another means to make ...
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- The K.i.s.s. Principle Of Martial Arts
By: Matthew McKernan | - The acronym K.I.S.S. stands for keep it simple stupid and it states that things shouldn't be overly complex and kept simple so you can achieve your goal effectively. The KISS principal can be applied to any number of tasks to make them easier, and when it comes to self defense you need things to be simple and effective.
In the world we live in today nothing is simple; cars have their own computers and if you apply for a job digging ditches you need an engineering degree. While som ...
Tags: Martial Arts, Self Defense, Martial Arts Training, Self Defense Training, Teach Martial Arts, Teach Self Defense, Judo, Karate
- 3 Reasons Why You Need A Self Defense Weapon
By: Nerode Abraham | - Are you truly prepared for a violent situation? This is a question that far too many people neglect to ask themselves on a daily basis. Yet when it comes to safety, it could be the very question that saves your life. So, if you ever thought that you never needed any protection, here are three important reasons why you need a self defense weapon.
Reason #1: You need to stack the cards in your favor
Picture this. You are walking down a quiet street minding your b ...
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- 3 Annoying Myths In Self Defense
By: Nerode Abraham | - There are a lot of self defense myths and falsehoods out there. Unfortunately, every martial artisit has heard are fallen victim to one or more of them. I am no different in this case.
Yet there are three big ones that seem to trick people time and time again. So in hopes of exposing these myths, I am showing you these today.
Annoying Myth #1: There is an Ultimate Self Defense Style/ Course
The forums ring with people claiming this self defense ...
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- The Terrible Truth About Self Defense Dvds
By: Nerode Abraham | - All over the internet, there is constant buzz about different self defense systems. Its present in every forum, and every community that you can picture. People ask themselves... Is it really true? Can I learn to be a ball-busting super commando in just three short days? Super mystery special ops guy tells me that I can.
And so every day, countless people fork over upwards to $200 for this piece of this state-of-the-art top secret info. Every day people get these courses in t ...
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- Master Real Self Defense In A Few Minutes
By: Johnny Jenkins | - An actual self defense situation is very different from the safety of a karate class. Most people have no real-world Self defense training. A karate student having spent many hours with martial arts teachers only learn self defense in a controlled setting. In a real life self defense incident your mindset is sure to be heightened. There will be no instructor only your survival instincts.
While there have been countless martial arts and self defense systems designed around a parti ...
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- So You Want To Learn How To Defend Yourself?
By: Armando Sainz | - In most martial arts schools today you can take regular lessons and add some self-defense classes. But there is still the problem of the effectiveness of the martial art and the so called self-defense moves being taught. It has been my experience that many of the martial art methods being taught in the United States are not completely functional in today's world. You have Tae Kwon Do schools, Karate schools, Ju-Jitsu schools and Kung Fu. For the most part these systems are sport oriented in to s ...
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- The History Of Self Defense
By: James Dunn | - Self defense is such a broad term that the history of it cannot be pinned down in the least. It is safe to say, however, that the broad spectrum of self defense can be considered as having come from the dawn of time even the earliest forms of human had to learn how to protect themselves and teach their strategies to others. From there self defense evolved into less primitive forms and into delineated and disciplined forms, such as with martial arts. There really is a style of defense for ever ...
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- Sambo Russian For Judo
By: Chris Pizzo | - Sambo is an acronym for SAMozashchita Bez Oruzhiya or Self-defense without weapons martial art developed in the Soviet Union during the early half of the twentieth century.
This martial arts form is practiced as a sport and also as training for combat. Sambo was born out of the need for one standard sport combative for the military rather then the many diverse regional styles. Rather then being invented, Sambo is really a collection of techniques from many different styles making ...
Tags: Sambo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, BJJ, Judo, karate, Tae kwon do, TKD, street fighting, Russia, self defense,
- Learn How To Kick: Kicking Effectively In A Self-defense Or Combat Situation Part 1 Of 10
By: Shawn Kovacich | - This ten article series will deal with the various components that need to be addressed when considering the utilization of a particular kick in a combat or self-defense situation. These ten components can also be used by the tournament competitor although certain segments would have to be modified slightly for the tournament aspects of kicking, rather than the more intensive nature of using a kick or kicks in combat. Although all of these individual components are important, they are most effec ...
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- Crime Awareness For Womens Self Defense
By: Roy Allen | - Womens self defense is an essential part of everyday training for women of every age. Womens self defense classes and training is available in books, seminars, videos, and community classes. Learning a martial art, staying up to date in community crime awareness, or taking a class in pepper or mace spray training can help women everywhere feel less like a target and instill a greater sense of confidence and control in their lives.
Unfortunately, violence against women is a centuri ...
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- Women"€™s Self-defense Starts In The Morning
By: Ken Keiscome | - With your first cup of coffee in the morning your day is already set up and moving forward. What does your attitude say about you? Do you have self-confidence in your abilities or do your doubts plague you throughout the day? Do you wear a V for Victim, on your forehead?
Your personal protection is based on a 3-legged stool. Remove one of the legs and your structure becomes unstable. Attitude, knowledge and practice go hand-in-hand.
Right now, with this ...
Tags: women's self defense, self-defense, self defence, rape, assault
- Learning Self Defense At Home Or In Class
By: John H. Rogers | - Whether you live in a small rural area or a bustling city, the need for self defense can occur at any time. You never know when an unfortunate situation may present itself and may call for quick action, including that of self defense.
There are a number of instructors who teach self defense classes in order to help educate individuals with how to protect themselves in certain situations. Class demonstrations and active participation are both a part of self defense classes, which a ...
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