Defend Yourself 101

How To Hide Anything author: Michael Connor rating: asin: 0873642899 binding: Paperback list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $12.00 USD

From his time served with the British Army in Northern Ireland, Mike Connor refined his ability to find caches of arms and explosives. This skill has now been reversed for us to help us to be able to hide things if we need to.

With little effort and expense, you can hide cash, firearms and ammo and even family members from the menacing eyes of burglars, terrorists or home invaders.

Strong on Defense author: Sanford Strong rating: asin: 0671535110 binding: Paperback list price: $14.00 USD amazon price: $14.00

Definition: trite:

* banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; “commonplace," "hackneyed."

This book is NOT trite! but so common as to have become trite is the current wisdom that in a self defence situation, “your mind is your best weapon.”

This implies that gadgets, martial arts, self defence classes and ignoring the reality of violence will not work to save you from the violence you are facing. This book brings a tone of realism to the trite.

This is a guest article by my good buddy Alain Burrese. You will find a link to his site over to the right but this link will go to his blog, which is informative and interesting.

aka: What Teens know about Bullies that Parents have Forgotten.

ALL responses to a bully are painful.

The best you can do is to choose the type of pain that you hate the least…you can’t avoid pain completely. The pain is either physical or emotional and bullies are practiced masters of causing this pain to others…

Random Violence Survival Skills covers:
    •    Survival doesn’t mean Fighting!
    •    Awareness Skills
    •    People Skills
    •    Physical Skills for Evasion
    •    Physical Skills for Fighting
    •    Fighting when Surrounded
    •    Fighting on the Ground

Freedom from Fear: Taking Back Control of Your Life and Dissolving Depression rating: asin: 0975999605 binding: Paperback

This guest review was written by:
Mark Batterbury, author of:  The Broken Heart of God:

Although Peyton is a martial artist and self defence instructor by profession, this book is about depression: how to avoid it, how to recover from it and in particular, the role that fear plays in it. This book has value for anyone who wishes to live in a state of personal freedom.

This article considers the following for young adults out looking for fun ( and hopefully older folks too):

Myths Your Parents Told You
Street Myths
Dojo Myths

This article is about surviving the trauma of killing or seriously wounding an attacker that was trying to kill you or someone in your family, the social trauma that I call being shaken by the neck by a huge gorilla.

This email from my friend, gave me great pause:

From: Marc MacYoung;

Knives are in nearly everyone’s pocket these days. While few people will admit they hope to save themselves from assault by having a knife with them, many folks trust in that belief. The reality can be much more grim.