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Legally blind man teaches alleged intruder a lesson - Yahoo! News
Stories like this give me the warm fuzzies. I think that it brings up several important points. First - visually impaired folks would do well to learn a contact / grappling based self defense system. Second - a knife can be a great equalizer apparently. […]

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I recently picked up The Clinch, the fifth book in Mark Hatmaker’s No Holds Barred Fighting series. I’ve long been a fan of tie-ups, and have been working the clinch range with a particular student, so I picked up this book to look for some ideas and some pointers. 
Mark Hatmaker’s books are inexpensive, and usually […]

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This past weekend was a great experience. Chris Hatch and I took a road trip to Valley Shore Martial Arts, and got to work with our teacher, Professor Kimo Ferreira and his friend Motobu Chosei, Soke. Saturday night we had an instructors’ workout with just a few folks and Professor Kimo, and then Sunday was […]

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I currently work in a school, and my wife teaches at the same school. This past Friday I had the opportunity to share the martial arts with her students. For the last several years, I’ve done a presentation for the 7th grade Humanities classes. How does that fit in? They study the geography, culture and […]

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