By Fabian Ommar Street smarts are an asset, and even more so in volatile and turbulent times. “You’re a born innocent, JeeBee. Until you learn this is a different world nowadays, that you’re either top dog or bottom dog, that there’s no such thing as…
By J. Fernanda Sánchez Jaramillo and Melissa Vida The Shoowa Gymnasium, a martial arts school in Popayán, Colombia, celebrated its 35th anniversary on Feb. 4. It has transformed the bodies and minds of children, young people, and adults, both Colombians and foreigners, who have trained…
By Fabian Ommar When it comes to how we see and prepare for SHTF, thinking in terms of real and probable rather than fictional and possible can make a big difference. Even though SHTF has many forms and levels and is in essence complex, random, diverse and unsystematic, some patterns and principles…
By Fabian Ommar Urban life presents many opportunities to test, adjust and improve our prepping strategies. Grid failures and near-SHTF situations can benefit us if used as training for a future SHTF. In this article, I return to my concepts, philosophies, and practices of urban…
By Terry Trahan I have been kind of struggling in what to name this new series of articles, trying to find the right tone. This does fall under the USE&E (Urban Survival, Escape & Evasion) title quite a lot of my material falls under. But…
By Daisy Luther The COVID-19 crisis has affected just about every family in the United States in some way or another. All of our situations are unique and everyone I’ve spoken to has learned some lessons about their levels of preparedness. Some of those lessons…
By Dr. Tammy Yard-McCracken Note: Dr. McCracken is the instructor of a one-day women’s self-defense course in Ashburn, Virginia on Sept. 21. You can find more information about the course here. I’ve worked as a therapist for nearly 30 years. As a therapist, I have…
By Daisy Luther Self-defense courses sound hard. Aggressive. Intensely physical. For some women, darn near impossible. When we reach a certain age, gain a certain amount of weight, see a drop in our fitness levels, we sometimes think, that’s it. It’s just me and my…
By Mac Slavo When one wants to protect themselves, the obvious tool to grab is the gun. However, not everyone is completely ready to take a human life, and some situations may not warrant such an escalation in violence anyway. Non-lethal weapons could come in…
