Things are a Changing in the Martial Arts World

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At least some space is being used to hint at other things regarding conflict and violence, and its ramifications outside the physical, is being given at least “Lip service,” in magazine articles. I say this because except for the books from pioneers such as Marc MacYoung, Rory Miller and others this last months edition of a martial art mag had an article about the civil liabilities from using self-defense. 

The article, “Civil Liability in Self-Defense,” by Frank Gannon appeared and provided what I would call a teaser article that stresses that our actions in self-defense extend way beyond the proverbial normal self-defense classes model. If this is the beginning and becomes a trend I will galdly begin once again to take martial arts mags more seriously, i.e., if they begin to present more in the subject of MA and SD in the fuller spectrum I have begun to understand and embrace for MA-SD training, practice and applications. 

I may have missed things over the years but if I am right then we can attribute this paradigm shift to those professionals who have made such a concerted effort to bring the truth to the masses. Some of those professionals are listed in the bibliography that follows. 

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