How to Get out of Handcuffs Using Picks and Shims Some extremely practical and useful advice for the crazy world in which we live. Besides the obvious scenario of being ILLEGALLY detained by corrupt Police, how about a home invasion or a kidnapping attempt? One of the most practical and real deal Escape and…
Category: Tradecraft
Lessons from Grozny: Deadly Classroom for Urban Combat
H/T to WRSA The Battle of Grozny: Deadly Classroom for Urban Combat
Aim Small, Miss Small
Aim Small, Miss Small Take this strong dose of medicine with your coffee this morning and then send it to Five People you care about. Tune out the Bullshit. Focus on the Objective. “Learn to thrive on Awful, and deal out Misery.” Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Restraint Escape Carry: 16 Ways To Go Undetected
Restraint Escape Carry: 16 Ways To Go Undetected This is one of those areas of training that most folks totally neglect but when you do the math on the odds of the average joe citizen becoming illegally detained in the 21st century cancel culture you will quickly see this is an area of training…
Tradecraft: The Barium Meal or Enema
BARIUM MEAL: The technique of providing a suspect with a traceable item of information and then watching to monitor its progress in the hope of tracing it to an adversary is known as a barium meal after the medical procedure that allows physicians to follow the passage of mildly radioactive material through the body. Often…
Tradecraft: Setting Up a Clandestine Communication Device
SETTING UP A CLANDESTINE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE Solid gold tradecraft free of charge thanks to NC Scout and AP. Be sure and Book your Training Now at Brushbeater Stay Alert, Armed and Dangerous!
Combative Strikes
These are some very old Kelly McCann clips but are still IMO some of the best out there regarding realistic Combative strikes that work. *Use these strikes in your CQ empty-hand/stick/knife/gun training as a way to quickly “create distance” between you and the BG so you can draw your weapon. Always stay open to…
Get To Cover? A Requiem for Common Sense
Get to Cover? A Requiem for Common Sense With the likelihood of random gun violence breaking out anywhere at anytime in the world today, it makes sense for the Armed and/or Prepared Civilian to re-cap some basics of staying alive when you are out there on the mean streets beyond the wire (The wire being…
Combative Corollaries
The following is taken directly from the Afterword in Kelly Mccann’s Outstanding book Combatives for Street Survival. In this afterword, Kelly draws corollaries between what is taught in the USMC Field Manual (FM 1) Warfighting and what is experienced in personal combat using Combatives for self-defense. Kelly divides these corollaries into Several distinct sections: War,…
Integrated Combatives | Why You Should Always Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
INTEGRATED COMBATIVES Why You Should Always Bring a Knife to a Gunfight The Combative Continuum is a concept that once you grasp it can change the way you look at Self-Defense. This is why the USMC Martial Arts Program saying “One Mind, Any Weapon” is so applicable in Civilian Self-Defense Training. Stay Alert, Armed…