GREAT ARVANITIS H2H BOOKS
H2H – hand to hand defensive skills – is an absolutely vital component to personal safety. Back in the days when I wrote regularly for Black Belt and some of the other martial arts...
HELLUVA WEEK
Sorry to be away from the blog longer than usual. It was a busy week, and frankly, a busy month. I spent last week teaching an advanced 40-hour MAG-80 class at Firearms Academy of...
NATIONAL TACTICAL CONFERENCE 2011
Tom Givens’ National Tactical Conference and Polite Society match finished up last weekend at the fabulous US Shooting Academy range in Tulsa. About 100 attendees picked from a smorgasbord of hands-on fighting classes, live-fire...
A MOST RESTORATIVE APPLESEED
I hit Backwoods Home’s turf – Gold Beach, Oregon – feeling like I had one foot on bronchial pneumonia and the other on a banana peel. Thanks to some powerful antibiotics, Lenie Duffy’s...
BACK TO WORK
Just finished our first class of 2017. Good to be back in the saddle. Thanks to ace instructor John Murphy who hosted us in Springfield, VA.
As a rule, the evil princess and I take...