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Advice On Surviving An Edged Weapon Attack: Reexamining Modern Knife Instruction for Civilians
By W.R. Mann
If your knife defense training has been confined to the typical single thrust or slash attack, and "I will hold it there until you do something" method, Mann's training will be both eye opening and scary.

Precautions For Kids To Avoid Street Crime
By Christopher Caile
Kids should be prepared to avoid or reduce risks of crime against them and how to react. Here are some ways to minimize chances of being chosen for a target as well as ways to avoid problems if your kids are approached.

Layers Of Shu-Ha-Ri In the Practice Of Iaido
by Deborah Klens- Bigman, Ph.D.
Most long-time martial arts practitioners actually know what Shu-Ha-Ri is, even without knowing the expression itself.

"Yoi" & The First Preparatory Moves Of Kata
By Christopher Caile
"The 'yoi' (the command often used in Japanese karate to signal getting ready to do a kata) and can be quite subtle or large depending on the style and system.

Ittosai's Test: Part 1
By Dave Lowry
In the sixteenth year of Tensho (1588), the swordsman Ito Ittosai Kagehisa could depend neither on a large and healthy crop of prospective successors among his students nor on a family heir ready to take over his Itto ryu. He had only two disciples from whom he could choose to carry on the traditions and strategies of his system of combat with the sword.