GREAT ARVANITIS H2H BOOKS

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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...

THE JOY OF WORKING WITH THE BEST

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Back in the teaching saddle after five Christmas season weeks of sabbatical where all I had to work on was writing and some legal consults, I’m reminded of two of the reasons I love...

A SAD AND MEANINGFUL ANNIVERSARY

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Thirty years ago today – April 11, 1986 – what may have been the most studied gunfight of the Twentieth Century took place in Dade County, Florida. Eight FBI agents on a rolling stakeout...

NOSTALGIA TIME

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June, 2017 was definitely “nostalgia month” for the old guy here.  You saw how many blog entries I devoted to The Pin Shoot, the reincarnation of the iconic handgun/rifle/shotgun match Richard Davis founded more...

HIGH TECH DRY-FIRE

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Rifleman and pistolero agree: dry-fire – pressing the trigger of a gun confirmed to be unloaded – is important for marksmanship in everything from the introductory phase to advanced skill maintenance. If you see...