By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato For a sobering glimpse of reality please go to YouTube and enter “Man Attacked by Group in NYC.” Just one major city, and you will see more documented video reports of multiple attacker situations than have ever been fictionalized in motion pictures and on TV! That’s all we are...
Category: TRENDS IN SURVIVALISM by Bradley J. Steiner
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IT’S WAR!
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato It is amazing how often individuals who are students of what they believe to be “self-defense” recoil from what we have to say or to write about defending against violent criminal attack being essentially the same thing as engaging in combat with an enemy during the course of a...
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HOW MUCH PRACTICE AND TRAINING WILL YOU NEED?
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato Whether discussing the matter of being able to handle an adversary in unarmed or armed close combat, the honest and real world answer to the question of how much training and practice you will require is: “It’s impossible to tell.” Impossible? Yes. And anyone who presumes to tell you...
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GUARD AGAINST GENERALIZATIONS WHEN EVALUATING PEOPLE
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato The Centurylink website recently (6 September 2020) ran a lengthy presentation citing “The Rudest City In Each State”. We read a few “assessments”, shook our heads, then dropped the article and went on to check the weather. How anyone could possibly label a city as being rude is difficult...
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NEVER TAKE THREATS LIGHTLY
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato ONCE again, and perhaps for the ten thousandth time, there is no correlation between combat sports and actual combat. Where sporting contests are concerned, one sometimes hears “threats” by one contestant against another—rudely verbalized “challenges” or promises to do “such-and-such” or “this-and-that”—delivered quite unceremoniously to the opposition fighter. All...
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SPECIALIZATION IN CLOSE COMBAT TRAINING
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato TRAINING, even for the most enthusiastic among us, is not always a joyful occasion. Boredom affects everyone. So does laziness. So does fatigue. So do the thousand and one temptations to “do something else, and get to the training later.” Still, with the exception of true emergencies and/or illnesses...
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EFFICIENCY IN ACTION
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato WHEN you are under violent attack the last thing that you can afford to do is try to employ some beautiful, intricate technique that you recall seeing demonstrated in class. Efficiency is the key when the balloon goes up for real! This is why we recommend and will not...
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THE FACTS
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato While we try to be courteous and patient – too often with individuals whose apparent capacity to appreciate it appears to be significantly diminished – we’ve just about decided to simply delete any inquiry that qualifies as “insipid” and just leave those who cannot or will not think to...
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ASSUME HE IS ARMED!
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato I cannot urge strongly enough that the whole idea of “force continuums” for practical self-defense is ridiculous and dangerous. Ridiculous, because it assumes that, somehow, the victim of a violent attack will have the capacity to know (rather magically, I would assume) the criminal history, the abilities, and the...
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HOW TO AVOID A PHYSICAL ALTERATION
By Bradley J. Steiner, AmericanCombato.com The attitude I encourage all students of self-defense to adopt is that, on no account, will they “agree to fight” with anyone, over anything. They will most assuredly take immediate and decisive action in self- defense should someone initiate violence against them – and, of course, they should – but...
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