Occasionally I ask my students about what real-world value this training has had for them, and what they've been able to do with it since starting. HINT: I prefer what I call "case studies" rather than the "this guy is great!" testimonial BS that tells you nothing about how others are using the lessons and training they're getting in these programs.

To that question, here's what I received from one of my students, who's a doctor of psychiatry in a rather large medical facility, that I thought you could relate to (even if you're not a doctor LOL):
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"There is a song ("Sirens") written by Eddie Vedder, the lead singer of Pearl Jam, where he describes looking at his peacefully sleeping family, hearing sirens in the distance, and realizing how easily things can change to take that all away.   Although I have been involved in martial arts of various kinds since age 13 and originally had started training to be able to defend myself from bullies at school, for much of that time, martial arts were a kind of sport.   

That changed when I had a family of my own - i.e. like the song, when I had something more to lose.  I had also, at that point, been working as a psychiatrist for a number of years and saw every day the impact that trauma of various kinds had on the lives of my patients.  And that often left me feeling drained, sometimes helpless.   And while being able to exercise and relieve stress through martial arts practice was helpful, solely focusing on the physical felt unbalanced.   

I also questioned how effective my techniques were since they were, after all, designed for the ring, not necessarily defending against the uncontrolled, animalistic rage that some fights devolve into.  And while it is not actually true that people dealing with mental health difficulties are more violent than people in the general population, those of us who work in the mental health field deal with violence, aggression, and threats to our the safety very, very often.   Pain, psychosis, intoxication, delirium are all some reasons why previously non-violent people can sometimes act in violent ways, and in these kinds of situations that I saw or was a part of, I never felt especially prepared.  That is, of course, to say nothing of other kinds of assaults (spitting, yelling, cursing, emotional manipulation, etc) that are more common than physical attacks in both work and life. 

So I started looking, trying to find places that offered more than just the physical techniques, looking for someone to help me through a few very basic things about practical safety in my everyday work life.  Frankly, until then, I never really found anybody who had the kind of practical martial experience to help answer the questions I had, and the people I had already reached out to, such as colleagues and hospital administrators, knew the realities of the medical world but were short on any practical advice other preventative techniques like than deescalation strategies or words of sympathy after something bad had already happened.  Needless to say, neither was satisfactory.  

I eventually stumbled on Jeff Miller, became a student at his school, and have been asking those sorts of practical as well as philosophical questions ever since.  I have since made changes to the whole way in which I examine patients based on physical proximity and angling, made tweaks to the set up in my office to give me an advantage should things go south, and changed the level of awareness that I carry with me on a daily basis and in certain acute medical settings where tensions and emotions run hot.  Since personal safety is an area of medicine that is generally ignored, I have tried to get people I am responsible for training or my colleagues to think about ways of taking responsibility for their own safety as well.  Thinking about these questions and being able to discuss them with someone has also helped on a deeper level in terms of personal clarity and life purpose.  Perhaps some of that would have come on its own with time and age, but most of it is a direct result of this training."  -- Joshua Blum, Psychiatrist
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That's why I created a series of 5 student training workbooks for for my local and long-distance guys and girls going through my Warrior Concepts Black Belt Mastery Program. These workbooks were originally only for use by my own personal students, but after seeing how many serious folks were trying to learn this art by doing the proverbial "flying by the seat of their pants" method with Youtube videos, jumping from seminar to seminar without guidance, etc., I decided to offer them to those who are looking for some structure in their training...

...regardless whether or not they were going through my program or not.  Each of these workbooks is valued at $49 alone, so do the math...

I explain everything, and give an extra f.r.e.e. training HERE

This set includes 5 module-based training workbooks, each packed with skills, techniques, and more for the student looking for rock-solid, ninjutsu-based self-protection training.  These workbooks include all requirements for my students looking to go from White Belt all the way to Shodan, 1st degree black belt!  And...

As a BONUS, I'm also including the packet for those looking to go from 1st to 2nd degree black belt.

You can go here and watch the free training video I created for serious students like you. And then, just scroll down to grab your complete set of Done-4-You student training workbooks (including the bonus black belt level version) this week while I'm making them available:

https://onlineninjaacademy.com/done-4-you-ninpo-taijutsu-curriculum-blueprint/