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Fear the Blade! Defense Against Knife Attack

It is amazing that, while most who are attacked with an edged weapon survive, it is still the one violent attack that tends to scare people the most.  There are several possible reasons for this…among them: amount of VISIBLE injury (i.e. slasher film effect), close range of the attack (personal space is instinctive) or viciousness of attacker.  But, in spite of this almost

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Karate Is Like Fishing...Or Not

There is an old saying: “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.  Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”  There is a lot of truth there.  But, in some instances, there is another dimension to that ideal.  While there is nothing inherently immoral or evil

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