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The Personal Security Institute Magazine on Flipboard contains articles we’ve found interesting or informative on the subjects of self defense, personal security, defensive shooting, preparedness,...
View ArticleLinking up with your family after an incident: an important part of your...
For simply being able to get in touch with each other, for instance, one plan starts with using our cel phones; if those are jammed or inoperative, we have a set plan to try text messages, landlines,...
View ArticleThe most under-used word in the field of defensive shooting: ‘context’.
I didn’t understand that’s what it was, and it took me a while to identify the correct word to describe the idea, but I realized that the class I was attending at the time didn’t really have a lot to...
View ArticleWhat is the most useful self defense tool you can carry? You might be...
I’ve found that there is a tool I can carry that will help me identify a developing threat, deter that threat from presenting itself, give me the means to help counter the low-level (non-lethal down to...
View ArticleWhat is the best defensive flashlight? Here are my favorites!
* Reliability extends beyond abuse; the on-off switches are a weak point of most flashlights, and in fact the reason I will no longer buy lights from the major ‘tactical’ light manufacturer is because...
View ArticleHow can you really use situational awareness to be safer?
A few years back I wrote a very controversial article for the Personal Defense Network titled "The Myth of Situational Awareness", wherein I pointed out that situational awareness — a sort of holy...
View ArticleBe honest: are you in any condition to run away?
Even someone in very good condition may find that it takes everything he or she has just to survive; faced with an assailant who is in better condition, it may not be enough. ...Yes, I do have tools...
View ArticleIf you own a gun for self defense, you need to know the law. To do that, you...
If you've read my works for any length of time you know that I find Boyd's concepts often wrongly applied to private sector self defense, and I feel that is the case here. ...If you're a defensive...
View ArticleMake a reminder to watch me on a Google Hangout - tonight!
Please join me tonight, 6:30 Pacific/9:30 Eastern, on the Safety Solutions Academy Google Hangout. Paul Carlson and I will have an in-depth discussion on the idea of training in context: why your...
View ArticleWhat blogs should you be following in the self defense world?
It's served to get rid of some of the most egregiously outlandish stuff that was common before the world wide web came into being (for instance, I no longer encounter recommendations to fill...
View ArticleCan you really be sure of what you've been told? Should you try?
It's one of the better articles I've read on not only why we should question what we're told, but how we should go about doing so without disrespecting the person who clings to faulty ideas. ...Not...
View ArticleDo you know how to respond to a mass murder attempt?
Schools, for instance, make tempting targets because not only are they often legislated as defenseless, their occupants are not usually trained (nor have they yet developed the attitude) to defend...
View ArticleTo the women in the audience…
Most of the people in the industry, from presidents of firearms manufacturers down to the counter clerks, are men; most of the writers in the firearms press are men; most of the articles they write are...
View ArticleMarketing versus curriculum: can you tell the difference?
An interesting thing happened in social media this week: a particular shooting instructor, well known for playing up his law enforcement background and experience to sell classes, was faced with a...
View ArticleA quick update, or why you haven't seen much going on since last Tuesday!
Of course the NRA Convention also tends to be a political circus, with many politicians seeing it as an important stop on the campaign trail. ...I personally have come to loathe politics and the...
View ArticleHow can YOU enhance your physical security?
The problem is that because so many people in the defensive training world come to it through the 'gun guy' portal, we as a community tend to look at self defense as a gun thing. ...It doesn't really...
View ArticleHow do you stay safe when traveling? Part 1 of a series
Safety is sort of like an onion: it has layers that protect and reinforce each other, and the most inner layer is the one where reaction to a threat — the use of weapons — resides. The fact that I...
View ArticleStaying safe while traveling, Part 3: preplanning is a good start
In any large city there are places where personal crime happens far more often than others, and your planning should start with a) knowing where those are and b) not going there if you can avoid doing...
View ArticleStaying safe while traveling, Part 2: your concept of safety is important!
Before I left I was asked by several people, all of whom are in the training industry to one degree or another, why I was going someplace where I couldn't carry a firearm — the implication, of course,...
View ArticleStaying safe while traveling, Part 4: which defensive tools can you take with...
When I travel I take two: a single-cell light that goes into my pocket, while the longer two-cell version is clipped onto the outside of my personal carry bag (which also serves as my first aid kit and...
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