Silat Sharaf : The Balance of Life and Death
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Silat Sharaf : The Balance of Life and Death

How it translates into your life, how you interact with other people, how you treat other beings. Your mindset and mentality – dominance in any aspect of work or war, the mentality to always win with a minimal resource as possible, the mentality to use only the best, and be the best. Being a good leader, a good member of the society, giving something back to the people around you and also the community.

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Bug The Hell Out vs Stay At Home - Which Increases Your Likelihood of Survival?
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Bug The Hell Out vs Stay At Home - Which Increases Your Likelihood of Survival?

You’ve seen the news, read the papers, heard about it, and you’ve looked outside the window, to notice how things have progressively gone from bad to worse. And at this point, you’re thinking that it would’ve been better if you’re moving out into a safe house, or into a small hut, facility, or shed deep in the woods, far from civilization. In other terms, bug out.

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Emergency Prepping and Action
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Emergency Prepping and Action

To be good at doing the right things, you have to continuously practice the right things right. Continuously working on your craft while looking for weak spots for you to work on and to improve. Equipping yourself with the right equipment is just as important as good preparation. The preparation and action will be broken down into three parts: Learn, Do, Carry.

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Killers in Kevlar
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Killers in Kevlar

Firearms continue to be one of the most dangerous threats faced by both law enforcement and civilians. This observed increase in body armor wears by the law enforcement community. The trend, however, is also observed in civilians and criminals. You’d be wondering “Isn’t it hard to get body armor?”. Armor, like guns, is easy to get, and bad guys are catching on. Nobody knows how many crooks, lunatics, gangs, and militias have acquired body armor.

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Levels of Situational Awareness
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Levels of Situational Awareness

There’s this motto that says “Always be ready”, but let’s face it, and let’s be real, you can’t ALWAYS be ready. Being ready and prepared takes conscious effort and consumes mental energy, and if you think that you can ALWAYS be prepared and ALWAYS be ready, you’re fooling no one but yourself, and sooner or later you’re gonna get overwhelmed by trying to do so.

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Fight, Flight or Freeze
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Fight, Flight or Freeze

The two most commonly heard response under stress is the Fight or Flight Response. I call these the “Oh, shit!” response. The fight or flight is also known as the acute type response, in which the body prepares itself to face the threat that is present by either fighting the threat or running away to safety. However, there’s another response which is known as the Freeze Response.

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Situational Awareness Without Paranoia
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Situational Awareness Without Paranoia

Does one realize if there are people who have been following them down the block, or someone eyeing them from across the street, or two guys suspiciously patrolling on their motorcycle? That person could be you, going through your life, coming home from work, walking out of the mall or cinema, not realizing what is happening around, being unaware of the situation nor the environment.

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