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The Self-Defense industry is killing you…

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:18:18 +0000

(…And I need your help to change it!) Frustrating is too civilized a word for how I feel about the current state of the self-defense industry. I’ve recently come across two different articles giving “advice” to women about self-defense… both of them absolutely abysmal. The first was an article from the University of Colorado at [...]

All Things Being Equal…

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:08:04 +0000

We all have the same eyes—but that doesn’t matter in competition. In competition we don’t look for equivalences, but for differences, and then use those differences for leverage to find out who is bigger, faster, stronger. Someone will pull ahead and prevail because they were one or more superlatives up on the competition. When the [...]

Removing the “Self” from Self-Defense

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:12:14 +0000

If you had to choose a single thing to worry about when fighting for your life, what would it be? • What might happen to you? • What he’s doing? • What you’re doing to him? Whatever you worry about most will most likely happen. And, no, I’m not talking metaphysics here, but rather about [...]

Make Peace

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:41:31 +0000

I was walking toward a place of business, thinking the everyday thoughts we immerse ourselves in when we tread familiar ground, blindly, when I suddenly became aware of the person in front of me, coming out the door. We were uncomfortably far apart, that is, I was not close enough to catch the door upon [...]

Why We Train

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:04:55 +0000

I am here to indirectly prevent a murder. Yours. And perhaps those of the people around you. I won’t be there if (God forbid) it ever happens to you. It’ll just be you, by yourself, armed only with what you know, what you practiced. It’s one thing to hear about the true victims who wanted [...]

ACCELERATED DESTRUCTION

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:26:32 +0000

I’m proud to announce the release of our newest training video, Accelerated Destruction. This is the culmination of the last five years of thought, research and training in our ongoing work to distill more than 20 years of experience into something that is illuminating, achievable and useful—in other words, showing you how to do what [...]

Last 2012 class (and a note about what TFT training is NOT)

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:07:08 +0000

By this time next week we’ll have put the wraps on the FINAL live training class of 2012. So I wanted to alert you to this last opportunity to attend one of these life-altering sessions. But before I do, Let’s take a moment to address 2 things that many people are still confused & concerned [...]

MAKE IT REAL… Maximizing your self-defense training

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 20:10:27 +0000

At a recent training I looked out across the mats and saw dead people. Not dead because they had been stopped, dropped and ended on the ground, but dead because they weren’t making it real in their heads. They were just going through the motions, slap-fighting, playing grab-ass; smiling, joking, helping each other up. I [...]

Tim Larkin “Banned in the UK” controversy hits front burner again

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:52:05 +0000

‘Bash a burglar’ ministers sued by self-defence expert: Ministers face embarrassment for encouraging householders to fight back against burglars, as they are being sued by a self-defence expert who has been banned from Britain. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9602393/Bash-a-burglar-ministers-sued-by-self-defence-expert.html ——————————————————- Interesting developments in my legal battle to overturn the UK Home Secretary’s travel ban against me. Seems the UK [...]

Silent, Slow, Cooperative: In Self-Defense You Can Train Like a Winner or Die Trying

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:24:06 +0000

Beyond a basic misunderstanding of our stance on the use of violence (it is only ever the last resort), the part of our program that receives the most criticism is our training methodology. Silent, slow, and cooperative. The silent part is easy enough—we don’t want to communicate if we’re training to operate in the place [...]