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Knowledge to make your life better.  If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   AAR: Two Years of Coaching a Self-Defense Class My friend Mark Luell discusses how he structures the self defense training curriculum he teaches.  Read about his approach to “constraints-led learning” techniques.  If you’ve ever taken...
  Background As many of my readers know, in early 2020 I was diagnosed with prostate cancer.  For more details about my initial diagnosis, you can read this article.     To make a long story short, I didn’t like the long term consequences of the treatment options my doctor gave me.  For me, being alive is more...
My first encounters with lunacy began long before I became a cop.   The year was 1989.  I was a high school junior who worked part time at a nearby K-Mart store.  Even though my friends and I were all three-sport athletes, most of us still had part-time jobs back in the 1980s to pay...
Knowledge to make your life better.  If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   Tactical Entertainment: When High-Volume Shooting Masquerades as Advanced Training “True “advanced” work is usually exhausting because of the mental focus required, not the quantity of empty casings left lying on the ground.”     Detecting the Covert Accomplice In...
Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a free App on your phone or personal computer.  Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download...