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TFT and Urban Survival

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:44:25 +0000

Download Free Urban Survival Sample Lesson. “Sensing Violence: How To Increase Your Awareness By Becoming The Hunter!” - – - – - – - – - – - – - - — Below is the text of my Aug 30 msg — At a recent live training session I noticed one guy doing very well, right from the [...]

Training in TFT: Are You Held To A Higher Standard

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:51:56 +0000

A couple months ago, we allowed a company that creates short news videos to shoot a segment from one of our live training sessions. We had expected to see the finished piece before it was offered to network television stations for use in local news stories. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. While the included video footage of [...]

The Definition of Effective Self-Defense

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:23:00 +0000

Someone asked, “How would you define effective self defense?” The short answer is “hurting people.” Much in the same way that using a firearm for self-defense is really shooting to kill. Trick shooting, like shooting to wound or trying to shoot the gun out of his hand are not seriously considered when training to use a [...]

In Self-Defense, Which Is More Important: Physical or Mental?

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:35:54 +0000

Which Is More Important in Self-Defense, the Physical or the Mental? The knee-jerk answer is “both,” and one that I would have agreed with until recently. But the longer I’ve trained and the more experience I’ve gotten the more I’ve drifted from one extreme to the other. When I first started training back in the ’80s, I [...]

Topics In Self Defense: What A Difference A Word Makes

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:27:56 +0000

Do words matter when you train for your own self protection? Indulge me as I look at the 8 year “War on Terror” (I know the current administration has banned this phrase but let’s call a spade a spade) and compare words and methods from 2 opposing sides. First, here’s the opening paragraph from a captured Al-Qaeda [...]

Topics in Self-Defense: Going Through the Motions

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:01:49 +0000

Is it possible to learn how to swim by watching a video? Maybe, but I think we’d all feel a lot better if you actually got in the pool… Life-or-death self-defense is admittedly unpleasant business. It’s all the stuff you’d really rather not think about, and so most of us don’t, hoping instead that it simply [...]

Self-Defense, Science and Entertainment: Missed It By Inches

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:43:35 +0000

I love the television shows where physicists, doctors, self-defense experts and computer visualization artists all get together to look at what goes on inside the human body when it gets used as a punching bag. Like the show Fight Science: Of course, things go wrong when everyone involved assumes the human body behaves like a punching bag [...]

Topics in Self-Defense: “Fighting is hard — hurting people is easy.”

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:13:51 +0000

Going toe-to-toe, blow-for-blow with someone who is bigger, faster and stronger is an incredibly iffy proposition. Unless you have the conditioning to go the distance (to outlast the exertion over several minutes of struggle and have the ability to absorb the punishment from non-specific trauma, e.g., “take a punch” or 20), the physical strength to overpower [...]

Self-Defense Q&A: “Are there any downsides to living in the Cause State?”

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:56:12 +0000

Jason H. writes: “Do you really live in the Cause State every day? Do you find that it affects you negatively in any way (socially) and if so, how do you deal with that?” ——————– Jason, The Cause/Effect State is really just a paradigm to illustrate the roles of winners and losers in violence — the winners do [...]

Self-Defense Q&A: “Where does TFT fit in law enforcement?”

Tim Larkin (Tim Larkin) — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:34:31 +0000

Note: while Greg M. is a police officer, as always, there is much to be learned from these comments to him. ———————————— Greg M. writes: “I recently started receiving your training e-mails and they are full of great information. I am going to pass them on to my training staff for their input. Now the question. I clearly see the [...]