Author: Billie Welch

Total Awareness

For those who have not yet used a link to go to his site, Darren is an LEO with extensive combat training and teaching. He is also an extraordinary researcher, unwilling to accept statistics on their face value or “new” research without deeper personal investigation. Total Awareness: A Woman’s Safety Book is almost a one stop […]

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101 ways to defend yourself without a gun: A Rebuttal

101 ways to defend yourself without a gun; by Johnny A. Jenkins. The full essay can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/2ucdc8. Now right from the git-go I want to say that I don’t know if he wrote the essay or if his friend Sarah wrote it, so I’m not being personal here but just taking a look […]

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A family member was mugged the other day…

A family member was mugged the other day and lost a considerable wad of cash. He was in a new city, sharing an apartment with a stranger and had his first pay check. He decided to go out but didn’t want to leave his money in his unsecured room, (some of his roomie’s friends were […]

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Cane Fighting Practise

This little effort demos some of the Raising Canes exercises that you can do to warm-up before practising your cane fighting self defense. It contains:         • Wim Demeer’s stick exercises for the   shoulders, back and arms        • some simple cane fighting footwork drills called zoning        • some cane fighting shadow boxing, then it ends with […]

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More Misconceptions about Canadian Law and Self Defence

Recently I came across an article by Gary Mauser of SFU, called Armed Self Defense: The Canadian Case. I perused the article and browsed his web site  exposing the fallacies of (Canadian) gun control rhetoric and supposed success. I even got 8 out of 10 correct on his Gun Quiz – missing a date and a total number. But […]

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Awareness and Avoidance

This is a guest article by my good buddy Alain Burrese. You will find a link to his site over to the right but this link will go to his blog, which is informative and interesting.  Awareness and Avoidance In my book Hard-Won Wisdom, I wrote about a time in Bangkok, Thailand, where I got off a […]

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Canadians, Firearms and Self Defence

Why are we being treated as irresponsible children who can’t be trusted not to burn the house down if the parents leave for a minute? I just found the CanadaCarry Forum. Quote:CanadaCarry was born out of the strong desire of many law-abiding Canadians to have the option legally to carry a firearm for the defence of […]

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Six-and-a-half minutes:

“I know how they were feeling,” he said. “It’s like you wish you could have done more.” Six Minutes of horror as Turlock father beats, kills his son; by Julia Prodis Sulek and Ken McLaughlin Mercury News Article Launched: 06/16/2008 07:43:19 PM PDT Six-and-a-half minutes: http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_9606469?nclick_check=1 Six-and-a-half minutes for two men to try to stop a […]

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Fit, Not Frail: Exercise as a Tonic for Aging

A friend, Dianna Gordon of No Nonsense Self Defense, culled this article from the New York Times. I don’t know how long the link will be active but hey, so far so good. New York Timeshttp://tinyurl.com/449qnq Personal Health Fit, Not Frail: Exercise as a Tonic for Agingby Jane E. Brody, published: June 24, 2008 Fact: Every hour […]

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