I have over 30 years of martial arts training and experience with the past 15 years focused on weapons based and reality-oriented martial arts and training. I've taught private lessons, group classes, workshops and seminars all over the United States, in Europe, Canada and China.

Sensei David Dobbs will be hosting a series of training clinics. Each clinic will cost $25 / person. If you plan to attend all three seminars you will receive a 20% discount: all three seminars for $60.
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I recently received an email message from a person, whose name and organization I will not mention, advertising "replacement martial arts rank certificates." The premise was that this service was to replace lost or damaged martial arts rank certificates. Not to my surprise, I opened the attachment and found that this individual was selling certificates for every martial art or combatives system immaginable for $15 (buy 3 get one free).

What was even more amazing was tha

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I have spent many hours of boredom surfing sites like youtube and seeing thousands of reviews on weapons, tactical gear, training and so on. I have watched as people that seem to have no tactical background talk about a weapons usage in "tactical" situations. The first thing I have to say, is unless you train right or are actually in a line of work that presents you with these situations, you have no idea what you or anyone else would or should do.

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Bags Still Don’t Hit Back

By Eric Kaplan

A week ago two friends and I were discussing self-defense when the subject of “Self Defense DVD’s” came up. One of my friends was all psyched because he had
ordered whatever new Ju-Jitsu for the Streets DVD was being advertised in the
twilight zone of late night basic cable. He raved about how the techn

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