Looks at the differences between martial arts and violence, with information on such topics as expectations of martial arts training, thinking critically about violence, and adapting training methods to reality.
This book allows you to 'take' a basic "use of force" police academy class, including training, checks and balances, experience, and review (from both the police and the suspect points of view).--Publisher.
This book presents a functional taxonomy to see, understand, and manipulate the roots of life's conflicts. You will have the background, the principles, and a collection of tricks to manage and ideally avoid dangerous conflicts. You may not realize that your reactions to conflict are subconscious, scripted, and for the good of the group. Once recognized, you can take actions that will reduce your being caught up in conflicts.--Publisher.
Provides a range of options, from skillfully doing nothing to applying deadly force, designed to prevent violence or, if that is not possible, to defend oneself against it as effectively as possible.
Trust your gut." So easy to say. But what does it mean? In Rory Miller's world, it means living in your senses. It means responding from a place of awareness, training, and experience without the mental chatter and over-thinking that can slow you down and make you choke under stress. But what is intuition? How do you know if yours is trustworthy? Can you heal damaged intuition? "...if it wasn't for this mechanism, this seemingly magical ability called "intuition" would just simply be how we perceive all the time. Intuition is what your brain and senses are already doing ALL THE TIME. Your social conditioning acts as a filter to suppress your natural way to perceive, and it is so good at it that we are amazed when our brain occasionally functions the way it is meant to." Your intuition is not some stranger that you can choose to trust. It is a part of you, and like every part of you it needs to be nurtured and trained to become effective. Open the door to the deep brain. What you find may surprise you.
The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and reappraises its impact on the Latin American states. Did it, as often claimed, circumscribe their political autonomy and inhibit their economic development? This sustained case study of imperialism and dependency will have an interest beyond Latin American specialists alone.
Discovering Beautiful is the tale of a lost and lonely young Yorkshireman who takes himself off to America for a month-long vacation and ends up embarking on a four year odyssey of travel and adventure in the search for happiness. Along the way he lives semi-homeless in New York, crashes numerous cars, visits several American jails, hitch-hikes over fifteen thousand miles, rides freight trains, and works as a stunt cowboy. Ultimately, he is led on a voyage of salvation by fate/destiny/synchronicity/call-it-what-you-will to a life-changing meeting with an odd and intriguing shaman and tai chi master in the deserts of Mexico, the culmination of his search. And that's when things get really interesting...
This is a workbook intended to complement the Violence Dynamics Prime class in Blaine, Minnesota on October 18-21, 2018. It is not intended as a stand-alone work. _______________________________ Hello and welcome to Violence Dynamics 2018. In your hands you are holding the Viody handbook for 2018. It is our hope that this will make your learning experience more rewarding and provide a means to review the material after the seminar whenever you like. This year Violence Dynamics features Kasey Keckeisen, Terry Trahan, Dr. Tammy Yard-McCracken, Randy King, and Rory Miller.
Life out at the edges can be rough, scary and at times dangerous. Campfire Tales From Hell is a collection of essays from people who have been there, done that -- some of whom had to fight for their title of 'survivor.' Some are professionals, calmly going to work knowing a bad day means someone dies -- and that 'someone' could be them. Others came through by being smarter, more aware, better trained or just having it more together than the other 'team.' Some of the authors looked into the abyss and spit in its eye when it looked back. Still others were normal people thrown into extraordinary circumstances.Campfire Tales is not a collection of macho stories. It's a primer for what you'll need to know to make it out there, on the edge. It's what to remember when you're dealing with dangerous people and difficult situations. It's what attitudes, knowledge and perspectives you'll need to get through. It's 'what I wish someone had told me when I started.' It's how Hollywood and fiction can -- and will -- get you killed or thrown into prison. It's what you need to know to fill the holes in your self-defense or defensive tactics training. In a different direction, writers can learn from the people who actually do what they're writing about. But most of all, Campfire Tales From Hell is a collection of stories and wisdom that tells you, 'you too can get through.
Using primary sources, this study of the relationship between three anti-Zionist bodies in Britain in the years that directly preceded the founding of the State of Israel also analyzes the Zionist attitude to the Jewish Fellowship, the Arab Office and the Committee for Arab Affairs.
A collection of short stories and poems covering such diverse subjects as the end of the world, having long hair in a working class town, falling in love with a fly, farting, and thesauruses. Also includes a story that has been known to induce temporary blindness in rabbits. Rabbits, you have been warned!
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