Reviews and Interviews

This is another archive piece I wrote back in my active reviewing days. "50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology" was one of several...

Positive thinking is possibly the most popular go-to motivation of mainstream martial arts. In an act of cognitive dissonance,  martial...

I wrote this review on "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science" back in 2010 when it appears I had far more time at my disposal....

The Martial Arts Woman is a labour of love that evolved out of a passion to produce a work that would serve as a testament, a...

What follows is a review of a 2011 reproduction of the collected works on Bartitsu, written by the art's creator, E.W. Barton-Wright....

Image by Lord Jim via Flickr Fear Fear has become a mainstay of Reality-Based Self-Defence training for a long time now. Both our...

My thanks to martial arts and self protection instructor, Andras Milward for bringing my attention to this excellent online series of...

"The truth is diversity, versatility. Preparedness. You simply fight where you have to fight. Learn it all, but don’t become any one...

This morning’s episode of “ Woman’s Hour ” on BBC Radio 4 brought up a subject that seems to be burning away on my backlog of “to do”...

Film poster for Clubbed. Copyright 2008, © Formosa Films (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) At 6:30am on 15 November 2005 I found myself waiting...

“The Safe Zone” is a rare educational book addressing a very important issue: child self-protection . As a self-protection coach, and a...

Will Knowles is our guest reviewer for the weekend combatives seminar held in Telford last weekend. Will is an instructor under my...

Cover of Recollections: An Autobiography Overview: " Recollections " is Viktor Frankl 's little known autobiography. Frankl rose to...

The following is a review I wrote back in 2005 upon the re-release of Geoff Thompson's book "Dead or Alive". This book remains a constant...

“ Protecting the Gift ” takes the principles of professional threat predictor (never can get his official title!) Gavin De Becker ’s most...

Image by hashmil via Flickr On 14th June I took the final part of what I considered then to be the most important qualification in my...

Cover via Amazon There have been copious books written about martial arts over the past century. Unfortunately, almost from the...

Double Self Protection Workshop with Jamie Clubb Thanks to all that attended the self protection workshops taken by Jamie Clubb in...

"Understanding Reasonable Force" is the part of the self defence jigsaw that most people do not own. There are now plenty of books...

A shopkeeper cancels the coupons in a British housewife's ration book for the tea, sugar, cooking fats and bacon she is allowed for one...