Frequently
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...in the long run, instincts are no match for information. -- Harvey Mackay

This section is incomplete as it is now. Information on 3 aspects of safety that I want to cover will be added over the next 2 months: Child safety, Firearms and Rape. This site will evolve as time goes on, as will what's written below. However, once these 3 aspects and a couple of other article ideas are added development of the articles section will stop.

Crime as a process

• The Five Stages of Violent Crime
• Multi-layered safety. Safety as an element of your lifestyle

Clarifying the problem, definitions

• The difference between Self-defense (SD) and Martial Arts (MA)
• Risk - a conceptual approach

Interviews and Magazine Articles

• An interview with journalist Raymond Joseph for Drum magazine
• Article in European magazine, Fighter. May 2001
• Sound recording of interview on Cape Talk radio with Lisa Chait

Why "reality fighting's" reality check might bounce

• "Street Fighting" - myths and realities
• Knife "fighting" - myths and realities
• The logic of steel - Medical realities from the use of bladed weapons
• 90% of all fights end up on the ground?

Why the many differences within the Martial Arts

• What is the focus of your training?