Everything Self Defense Columbia, South Carolina

This past summer, I participated in a home gardening experiment, working with several containers of vegetables. This was just one of several Ultimate Black Belt Test challenges I gave myself. Why? I want to better understand our food supply and the use of pesticides, growing organic food naturally, the economic foot print of shipping food halfway around the world, so that we could have certain vegetables that were out of season. I had only moderate success, as my "no pesticides" pledge made it very difficult to deal with bugs that constantly were eating my plants or the vegetables themselves. I plan on doing a lot more research over the winter to prepare for next season. In the mean time, I found a website with a detailed process for growing container fruits and vegetables and I love the work they have done. Here is a video that explains their process: Pretty neat process that I am going to try and model next year. I will update everyone to let you know how it...

For those of you that follow me, you know that I believe there are primarily 3 main reasons women get assaulted.  And they are, body language, lack of awareness and being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Today, I would like to talk more about awareness and consider some of the warning signs of possible attack.  I call these NON VERBAL ATTACK INDICATORS. Remember, in most instances, your assailant is looking for an easy target and more often than not, the bad guy will take his time to watch and assess his selection.  There are some assailants that have been known to have studied their victims over a considerable length of time.  When I do my self defense workshops, I will often refer to this as "window shopping" .    The attacker is trying to decide which women to attack, so he is window shopping for the one he thinks is going to be the weakest and put up the least amount of resistence.  Remember, assault is meant to be quick.....and if ...

Join me and listen to the video below that describes what <a href="http://www.samuraikaratestudio.ne/">Samurai Karate Studio</a> is all about!&nbsp; It was created by my mentor, teacher and friend, <a href="http://flavors.me/tomcallos">Tom Callos</a>, who has more than 40 years of experience practicing and teaching the martial arts: <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Kw9HGb3Ye3M" width="425"></iframe></div> I have been training with Master Callos for more than 3 years and I am a proud member of two of the most unique associations for martial artist's and school owners out in the world today.  They are <a href="http://thenewwaynetwork.ning.com/">The 100</a> and <a href=...