Title and inspiration courtesy of Ed, my longtime friend, local detective and SDC Guardian Instructor. Every few weeks Ed sends me a video ...

The fantasy: A gun solves every self defense situation. The reality: You can only use a gun if there is "justified use of deadly force...

One of the greatest values of martial arts training is learning other people’s physical capabilities when “mixing it up.” Being taken off y...

When it comes to violent encounters, we (The Police) start at a disadvantage. That’s right…We are the “underdog”, the “short stack at the t...