If you aren't reading Rory Miller's blog, you're missing some good material

[Fred Fuller]

The home page - http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/

http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2013/03/cofv-9-group-monkey-dance.html
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013
CofV 9: The Group Monkey Dance

http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2013/03/legal-self-defense.html
THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013
Legal Self Defense

http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2013/03/cofv8-monkey-dance.html
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013
CofV8: The Monkey Dance

etc.

 

[Twmaster]

Pure awesome sauce!

Thanks FF!

 

[Bill_Shelton]

Fred,

That was a great post. A lot of those ideas come from a guy named "Marc Macyoung" - have you ever read any of his stuff? You can Google to find his website. What Marc has to say is quite wordy, but self-defense properly applied isn't neccessarily an easy task to understand.

Thanks.

 

[Fred Fuller]

Bill,

See http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/ . There's some excellent foundational material there. http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html for example.

Also see http://www.conflictcommunications.com/index.htm ...

 

[Prophet]

This is good reading, thanks for the post Fred! Bill, I also can vouch for nononsenseselfdefense, a lot of great material there too. I've read a lot of the articles there.

 

[freyasman]

I love both Miller and MacYoung; their stuff always makes me re-think everything I think I know.

 

[Tim Burke]

His books are good, too.

Meditations on Violence
Facing Violence
Campfire Tales from Hell

 

[Fred Fuller]

Scaling Force is good, too...

 

[Tim Burke]

I have Scaling Force & Force Decisions. However, I didn't think the latter was as good as the ones I'd listed, and I haven't read Scaling Force, yet. Meditations & FV, however, were so good that I reread them almost immediately. I almost never do that.

 

[Bill_Shelton]

After I bought a pistol and learned how to use it, I felt uneasy about a lot of potential situations when carrying - especially about getting surprised and not being able to get my gun out fast enough to do me any good. This fear was the result of a friend of mine that got robbed at gunpoint while he was pumping gas - and while he also was armed. That mugger moved on my buddy slicker than owl snot and had drawn before my buddy even realized what was happening. Thank goodness all it cost him was $30. I had to admit that the same could have happened to me.

Anyways, it was later - while I was reading Mark Macyoung's material - that I learned how to avoid situations like described above, and I have been safer, and felt better, ever since. From reading Macyoung, I learned that a lot can be done to avoid crime altogether and spot a potentially bad situation before it happens. I wish I had read Macyoung's work 30 years ago (but he wasn't writing then, of course). Anyways, I have taught 2 friends how to shoot and handle a pistol in the past few years and I have insisted that they read a couple of Macyoung's books (or his website) before we even begin to shoot. Like me, they feel that their pistol training would have been woefully incomplete without Macyoung's lessons.