Category: Mitigating Other Risks
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No Stress, No Change: Carry Trainer S12 2024 AAR
Welcome, friends. Synopsis S12 is a multidisciplinary 4-day training event hosted by Mickey Schuch of Carry Trainer. It’s billed as a wholistic experience incorporating instruction in defensive pistolcraft, tactical combat casualty care (TCCC), and combatives, as well as guided breathwork and mindfulness exercises. The event was held at the Five…
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Thoughts on BJJ for Self-Defense from The Whitest White Belt
Welcome, friends. Today, I’m going to share a bit about my experiences as a newcomer to the beloved martial art of South American ground karate, otherwise known as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ). Let me preface this by saying that I will not be making any definitive statements here: I have…
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Hold My Guns®: No Legislation, No Stigma, No Questions Asked
Welcome, friends. This blog post is going to be a very personal one—one that I’m very self-conscious about publishing, even though I suspect more people in this community than will admit to it have similar backstories. If curating a positive online persona was my priority, I wouldn’t be sharing this.…
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Know Thyself: Self-Knowledge for Self-Defense
Credit to Alex Sansone (The Suited Shootist) for his competencies diagram, shown above as the featured image. Welcome, friends. Military strategists and philosophers have preached the tactical and spiritual benefits of self-knowledge since time immemorial. As self-defenders, we’re required to dabble in both of those worlds to some degree. Although…
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Budgeting for The Armed Lifestyle
Welcome, friends. Human beings have a few underlying directives that I believe feed into our decision to prepare for self-defense. First, we want to stay alive, in the most literal sense: to be a conscious, sentient human being drawing breath on this planet. Our genetically programmed biological imperative is to…
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