Develop an Offensive Mindset

Let's break down the first of John Kary's 6 principles of combat, specifically as it applies to learning and applying simple, basic, effective self defense.

Develop an OFFENSIVE Mindset.

Simply put, this means that your mentailty, when faced with an attacker or someone wishing to do you harm, MUST be "I will hurt THEM" rather than "I will defend MYSELF"

By taking this stance, your attitude shifts from one of "Please don't hurt me" to 'How F***ing DARE YOU ATTACK ME?!?" In doing so, you rob your body of fear, and replace it with righteous indignation. Your tools will then be able to do damage, not so much due to technique (although knowledge of proper techniques, such as those found in the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course, is essential) but rather due to the mentality and feeling behind the technique. In this sense the old adage, "He can because he thinks he can" actually, is true.

How do you develop this mentality? Through scenario based training drills and employing gross motor movements against an uncooperative opponent in mock set-ups.
Wanna know how to do this? The best course I have seen out there for this is either Peyton Quinn's RMCAT, Bill Kipp's FAST defense or specifically for women, a rape prevention class called IMPACT. Check them out if you have the means. I also encourage you to check out the White Collar Warrior site at

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For 7 bucks, the info you will get is priceless.

Buy it and make yourselves and your families safer.

Til next time,

Remember-no one has the right to attack you. No one. If they do, make them sorry. You have the power to do just that. Believe it.

Bobby

Loyola University Self Defense Workshop a SUCCESS

Monday, February 22, 2010 I had the extreme good fortune to present a self protection skills workshop for students at Loyola University in Chicago. Approximately 20 students took part in the two-hour long workshop, which gave them an exposure to some of the techniques and principles taught in the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course.
The workshop was sponsored by the Gamma Phi Omega sorority and was open to any and all who wished to participate.
I could tell that some participants at the beginning thought the academic stuff (i.e., mindset, mentality, body reactions to stress) was a bit boring BUT by the end I am confident that they now understood why we discussed those things first.

Let me say this to any college students out there: THINK LIKE A PREDATOR AND YOU WILL SEE OPPORTUNITIES EVERYWHERE. DO YOU KNOW HOW YOUR BODY WOULD REACT TO AN ATTACK? If not, I suggest finding a good scenario-based training workshop, one where you can fight off a padded "assailant." Then and only then can you really understand the power of the adrenaline dump.

If you are interested in hosting such a workshop, please contact me at
bobby@7dollarselfdefense.com

Check out the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course at
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Be safe, and be honest with yourself-don't waste time learning 87 defenses against a right handed punch if what you need is self defense today. Download the course.

A final thank you again goes out to Marlisa Quetell and the girls of Gamma Phi Omega-great job!

Bobby

Change this ONE thing today!

I was thinking today about how to approach the subject of simple self defense that can be easy to apply without giving it too much thought, yet still be effective....
something that one could use today....
and then two college age girls walked by my desk while typing this. I just got a brainstorm, so here goes:

I would wear my keys on a lanyard around my neck while at USF-everyone did, guys and gals, and we would often flip them over around our necks so that the keys would hang down our backs. No big deal, right?

No big deal, except for someone looking to pull a prank or be a tool, they'd invariably yank the key lanyard as we were walking back to the dorm after chow or in a hallway or whatever.

For most people, it's harmless and quite funny when someone would trip, but...

for the predator, it's a GIMME.

I must confess, I find much of today's college fashion ugly as hell. It seems that today's average college age male either looks like a wannabe tryout for the Wu Tang Clan with all the baggy junk on or looks like a he got cut early from MTV's "Ultimate Douchebag" show, complete with highlighted spiky hair, man-tan, and of course, the complete fall line of Affliction and TapouT shirts so tight they could double as a compression suit for deep sea exploration. Ladies, you ain't much better! Girls dressing like guys, with their shorts poking out of the back of their already too low sweat pants with some kitchy crap like "Princess" or "Love Me" written across the butt. Whatever...I digress.

Back to the task at hand-if there's one thing to stop doing that the guys do, it's wearing keys around your neck on a lanyard, and ESPECIALLY backwards. Even if you have good awareness, it won't matter a lick.
That puts you entirely at the attacker's mercy and given enough torque on the windpipe can silence you before you even get a scream out.

Remember, think like a Predator, and you will see opportunities everywhere. Then ask yourself how many opportunities you see in others that you, too, are doing. Change them ASAP.

If you haven't done so, pick up a copy of the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course-it contains priceless info on siple, effective and efficient self defense skills you can learn and use TODAY!

For only 7 bones, it should be a no-brainer.

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Til next time,

Keep your eyes, ears and mind open!

Bobby

Take a tip from Bruce Lee

The best recipe for simple, direct and effective self defense for women, college students, senior citizens and everyone in between comes from the "Little Dragon" himself. When once asked about how he would teach his wife to defend herself, Bruce Lee had no misgivings about how he would do so. In spite of his near-supernatural abilities or vast reservoir of martial arts skills, he said he would teach her to

"poke 'em in the eyes, hit 'em in the groin and run like hell!"

Now for years, almost every woman who has reached a high level of rank ion traditional martial arts, or any girl who now competes in boxing or MMA who has seen that quotes will likely smirk at it, thinking to themselves "Well I made my black belt," or "I fought in the ring" so as to thumb their nose at Bruce's quote as some chauvinistic remnant of Leave it To Beaver era thinking....

But they're wrong.

Bruce is right.

Why?

Because MMA, boxing, martial arts and average self defense classes aren't reality. They don't deal with situations, adrenaline rushes, unfavorable circumstances, distractions and the like. Without exception, all of the aforementioned arts/sports put you in one context (i.e., if I'm boxing, I can't kick...)

Bruce was a genius-sadly too many people think of Bruce Lee and they think of the stupid impersonations in TV and cartoons( WATTTAAAAHHH!!! and all that crap).

Bruce knew what was up- eyes, throat, groin, shins. Simple. Direct. Effective. Hard. Fast. Ruthless.

Remember this-MMA, boxing and karate are not self defense. They are great arts to train in for a variety of reasons but self defense isn't one of them...

be proud of your accomplishments but don't act smug at Bruce's philosophy of women and self defense, because like it or not it's dead-on-balls accurate.

Don't believe me? Check out the White Collar Warrior Self Protection Skills Home Study Course and see for yourself-skip 2 beers at the bar this Thursday and download it-for only 7 bucks.

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Til next time,

Be safe, and keep an open mind!

Bobby

The Wrathful Goddess

Too often in today's society, the issue of returning to or getting in touch with one's base instincts or primal nature is not only discouraged but outright condemned. What is sad and at the same time ironic and comical is that it is this very state that will benefit one the most should they ever need to remove themselves from a violent encouinter with an attacker. Women especially have the capability to be either extremely loving and sweet or the textbook definition of vindictive. Don't believe me? All I can say is look around you! Men punch each other; women claw at the face, pull hair, bite and scratch. Men call someone an asshole; women mercilessly emotionally attack each other's reputation, start rumors and expose secrets previously held in the strictest confidence. There is truth behind why so many sitcoms feature a bumbling huisband and his hell-on-wheels wife (aside from the fact that so many men today are nothing more than emasculated lttle children who transfer responsibility of their own lives and decisions from "Mommy" to "Wife"...this really pisses me off, but that's for another time). This is also the reason for the saying, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."
Given all the evidence at hand, it seems ludicrous why women, who have it within them to be very damaging towards those who displease them, are many times told or believe that it is best to cooperate with an attacker. What?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? If someone wants your purse, fine. Screw it. No big deal. If someone tries to force you to do or go somewhere you don't want to, DO NOT ACQUIESCE. Simple moves to the most effective targets (Eyes, throat, groin, shins) and a "How dare you attack ME?!" attitude will be exactly what you need. Perhaps the best quote on the subject is from David Deida's fantastic book, The Way of the Superior Man.



It reads:

Today's current fashion is to supprerss both the dark masculine and the dark feminine, so we have a large population of wimpy men and polite women. But beneath the nice veneer of most women lies the wrathful goddess..."

Do not deny your wrathful goddess. Bring her out when she needs to be brought out, and make the attacker sorry he ever chose to assault you. Don't deny who you are.
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A better use for 7 clams I cannot think of...
Til next time,

Be safe, be aware and be strong!

The danger of the comfort zone...

I'll keep this short 'cause I'm trying to get things done before I hit the cardio (God I hate cardio)...simple idea for today:
If you are looking for sopmething simple to do that will prove quite effective in enhancing your ideas on self defense and personal protection, switch up your routines. What routines, you may ask? All of them, or at least a few.

Many people get into routines, in every area. Insofar as we're concerned, routines like where we go for jogs, where we park our cars, when we go shopping,leaving our dorm door open when we go to someone's room, to the chow hall or to go to the bathroom. To the predator, who views situations like a predator, it is very easy to pick up on such seemingly (to us) insignificant details.

Sherlock Holmes, when once asked as to whether or not one of the characters in a story was guilty, replied, "There's no doubt in my mind...or I should say in my imagination, for that is where crimes are conceived and where they are solved, in the imagination."
What that means for us, simply put, is to think like a predator and you will see opportunities to assault, rob, beat or kidnap people all around you.

I don't say this to be a downer or a killjoy, rather, once you can see things as a predator would, you can begin to walk a little more confidently because you will have a sense of awareness around you.

Switch the little things up-thats what changes us, switching little thing after little thing until...BAM. we've been changed...sometimes for good, sometimes not...but the power in switching routines is where all change comes from.

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Til next time,

Be safe and have a ball!

Bobby