Have you ever thought about this simple truth...?  That...

...no matter which instructor you choose, the reality is that you're putting your life in their hands until you can do this for yourself! 

Have you thought about that?

Because most martial arts and self-defense students have not... and NEITHER have the instructors teaching most of the stuff that's out there, especially those getting all warm and fuzzy feeling because they're the "guru," the "Master."

As for me, I became intimately aware of extreme violence at a very young age.

The earliest memory I have of this kind of immobilizing, heart-pounding, trembling terror is of my mother barring the door of a bedroom that my two sisters and I were cowering behind her in; while my stepfather, a very violent man, was threatening to kill us.

I was only 4 or 5 years old.  My little sisters, 2 and 3 themselves.

My parents were having yet another in a long series of enraged and heated arguments that would be all too common throughout our lives.  My mother said something that blamed us children for whatever the problem was (a tactic I would later come to learn was used to redirect the violence away from her), which sent him storming off to the kitchen, only to return with a huge butcher knife and screaming: "You're always blaming the kids!  I can fix that!  I'll just chop them up and throw them in a trash can.  That'll solve the problem, won't it?!"

This kind of occurrence marked the better part of my childhood because my mother, for whatever reason, refused to leave this monster.

In fact, he was the reason I decided to become a police officer.  And the moment I made that decision, and the vow to grow up to learn what I needed to know so I'd never live in that kind of fear EVER again...

...is forever burned into my memory

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Peace, Happiness & Safety,

Dai-Shihan Miller