ACT in Self Defense

What steps should you consider taking in case the police aren’t there in large numbers to quell the next mob action?

The death of David Koschman was “a tragedy all the way around,” but Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko is “basically a good kid,” Vanecko’s uncle William Daley said Tuesday according to the Sun-Times.

We can now add another shooting to the list of over a dozen gun crimes that have been reported in Chicago and surrounding suburbs over the last five days. Two men were shot and seriously wounded while sitting in a tow-truck at a gas station in the Lakeview neighborhood early this morning. The Tribune reported [...]

If you live in a neighborhood where the bad guys have guns does it make sense to own a gun in order to protect yourself as Turner and the unidentified homeowner did?

Funny thing is, had Mr. Wright hit the guy in the head with a blunt instrument or stabbed him with a knife and killed him he wouldn’t have been arrested.

Since more time appears to be spent training to grapple on the ground than on your feet it seemed like a good time to have a workshop focused exclusively on taking someone off their feet using a variety of Folkstyle, Freestyle and Catch-Wrestling techniques. Learning how to take someone down is the gateway to learning how to defend against it!

The student charged with the stabbing picked a good time to attack. The victims were stuck in line between two doorways making it difficult to escape or defend themselves.

What could a 6’2″ 250 pound MMA fighter from the suburbs of Chicago and a little 13-year old girl from the suburbs of Detroit have in common? They both faced danger and came out of their potentially life threatening situations unscathed, but there is more to it than that. A few weeks ago the MMA [...]

Pepper spray is getting a bad name due to the extent it has been used in non-violent confrontations.