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How to Survive a Violent Conflict Part 3
by Urban Samurai on Nov 6, 2009 in Street Self Defense Confrontation Management Distraction Techniques Law Pre-Emptive Strike Street Defense Striking In this series of articles we have been looking at ways to manage a potentially violent situation and how to stop a situation from spiralling out of control into a fully-fledged fight (or beating, depending who you are up against- and that’s the po...

How to Survive a Violent Confrontation| Part 2
by Urban Samurai on Nov 4, 2009 in Street Self Defense Confrontation Management Distraction Techniques Psychology Street Defense In the previous article on this subject we talked about some of the options open to you when approached by a potential attacker on the street. In this article we are going to examine in more detail some of those options. A lot of people, when they ar...

How to Survive a Violent Confrontation| Part 1
by Urban Samurai on Nov 2, 2009 in Street Self Defense Confrontation Management Street Defense When the successful outcome of a confrontation on the street depends, 99% of the time, on how well you manage the conflict before it gets to fighting stage, why do so many dojos continue to teach students only reactive/defensive techniques that proba...

Don’t Be A Mimic- The Right Way To Master Martial Arts
by Urban Samurai on Oct 26, 2009 in General Training Advice Development Martial Culture Mastery Mimickry Technique Just recently I read a very interesting article written by Matt over at Ikigai blog in which he explained the subtle difference in meaning between the two Japanese words “shirimasu” and “wakarimasu”, both of which seek to convey the concept o...

Martial Arts Murder?
by Urban Samurai on Oct 23, 2009 in General Jesus Taught Me Video Here’s a video some of you may already be aware off. I came across the link at a forum and when I watched it I was witness to one of the most shameful displays of dojo violence I have ever seen. Just to put things into context, the footage was take...

Self Discipline- The Bedrock of Martial Arts Training
by Urban Samurai on Oct 22, 2009 in General Mind Training Development Discipline Martial Success Motivation Self-discipline is something that I have struggled with quite a lot over the years and I’d wager that many of you reading this have struggled with it as well. As human beings we always have to push ourselves in order to do even the simplest tasks.