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		<title>4 Tactical Tips To Survive A Home Invasion!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home invasions don&#8217;t just happen in &#8220;high crime&#8221; neighborhoods!
They happen EVERYWHERE (even in rural areas where home invaders know that there&#8217;s no one around to hear your screams).
So let&#8217;s dig into some REAL &#8220;tactical strategies&#8221; to help you get better prepared, shall we?
Imagine This Scenario&#8230;
You&#8217;re sitting at home watching reruns of &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; (remember the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Home invasions don&#8217;t just happen in &#8220;high crime&#8221; neighborhoods!</p>
<p>They happen EVERYWHERE (even in rural areas where home invaders know that there&#8217;s no one around to hear your screams).</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s dig into some REAL &#8220;tactical strategies&#8221; to help you get better prepared, shall we?<span id="more-141"></span></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Imagine This Scenario&#8230;</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">You&#8217;re sitting at home watching reruns of &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; (remember the one where Homer started his own religio&#8230;oh nevermind) and there&#8217;s a knock at your front door.</p>
<p>&#8220;<strong><em>Who&#8217;s there?</em></strong>&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>Hello, my daughter is selling girl scout cookies to raise money for military veterans and we&#8217;d like to show you her selection.</em>&#8221;</p>
<p>Being the real &#8220;patriot&#8221; you are, you&#8217;re tempted to open the door to &#8220;do your part&#8221;&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;but you&#8217;re not stupid either!</p>
<p>You look out and notice that you don&#8217;t see any little girl, but you DO notice one man standing on your porch you catch a glimpse of another one running to your back door for a sneak attack from the rear.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Which Weapon Do You Reach For?</span></h2>
<p>Your .45?</p>
<p>Shotgun?</p>
<p>Claymore mine?</p>
<p>All are handy little weapons in the fight you recognize is about to happen, but there&#8217;s one weapon that you&#8217;d better have at the ready now that&#8217;s &#8220;go time&#8221;!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s your BRAIN!</p>
<p>A fire fight is a thinking man&#8217;s game (and woman&#8217;s <img src='http://www.closequarterscombat.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p>If you ARE a &#8220;gun owner&#8221; (kudos!) then your first instinct may be to start blasting away.</p>
<p>Start with the front door lowlife and work your way onto the next vermin, right?</p>
<p>But a home invasion requires tactical thinking BEYOND just the point and shoot reaction many gun owners have instilled in themselves from typical range training.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s break it down a little bit further and really tap into your cranium&#8230;</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Your Home Invasion Defense Plan:</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">First, you don&#8217;t know what these guys are going to do or even how many of them there are.</p>
<p>Being the smart &#8220;thinking shooter&#8221; that you are, you know&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>Your living room is NOT the best defensive position!  Too many entries and exits and it&#8217;s easy to shoot through walls so you&#8217;re more likely to get shot</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>You know you have an attacker at the front and at the back and in your adrenalized state, your peripheral vision goes to hell in a handbasket.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>You have family in diffent areas of the house and no time to take a firing position AND coral them to safety.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left;">So what do you do?</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>1. You need a &#8220;code word&#8221; </strong></span>for your family so that they all know how to spring into action.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">Forget the Spec Ops secret code. &#8220;ESCAPE&#8221; works much better than &#8220;RED WOLF&#8221;. Simple&#8230;to the point.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>2. Have a &#8220;safe room&#8221; </strong></span>set up in your house where everyone can retreat to at the same time.</p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">It needs to be stocked with several items to be prepared for surviving the upcoming fight.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The list isn&#8217;t all that long, but it&#8217;s longer than what can be listed here (more on that in a minute).</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">But you KNOW you need to have a phone to call law enforcement, right? Use it!</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>3. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">DON&#8217;T</span> leave your safe room!</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Assuming you have those you love with you, don&#8217;t be one of the idiots who puts on his cape and decides to go take the fight to the guys invading your home.</p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>4. Create a &#8220;fatal funnel&#8221; </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">Hunker down in a corner to the opposite side of the opening of the door so you have maximum time to make a shooting decision and are the last thing the home invaders see when busting in.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">You have the advantage in this case because they have to assess the room before making a move (is anyone in the room; where are they; recover; reorganize; act)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">You just have to decide whether to shoot or not and you already know that either it&#8217;s a bad guy coming for you or the police coming to rescue you.(hint: don&#8217;t shoot the police)</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Stay in place until the police arrive, even if you think the threat is gone.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">But What If&#8230;</span></h2>
<ul>
<li>You have a loved one taken hostage?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>You were taken by surprise and handcuffed to a railing?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>You have to leave the safe room to rescue a family member?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>You can&#8217;t get to your firearm (or don&#8217;t own one)?</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The police weren&#8217;t notified and no one knows you&#8217;re being attacked?</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left;">All good questions!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.HomeDefenseTactics.com" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-142 alignright" title="HomeDefenseTactics" src="http://www.closequarterscombat.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/HomeDefenseTactics.jpg" alt="Home Invasion Survival" width="300" height="250" /></a>That&#8217;s why I put together the &#8220;<a href="http://www.HomeDefenseTactics.com" target="_blank">Home Defense Tactics</a>&#8221; program &#8211; to arm you with the real &#8220;no nonsense&#8221; strategies you need for this worst-case scenario.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This new home invasion training package is taking the self defense and weapons industry by storm!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a manual + 2 CD set is LOADED with the real life survival strategies you need to defend against society&#8217;s most feared criminals should they enter your home.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a complete rookie or a seasoned &#8220;expert&#8221;, there&#8217;s something for everyone in the HDT program!</p>
<p>Go check it out NOW and see for yourself why it&#8217;s now the #1 selling &#8220;home invasion survival guide&#8221; out there!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s at: <a href="http://www.HomeDefenseTactics.com" target="_blank">www.HomeDefenseTactics.com</a><br />
You&#8217;ll be glad you did!</p>
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		<title>How To Survive Prison!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make&#8230;
There&#8217;s a skeleton in my closet.
Well, more like a skeleton in my family tree.
You see, I have a cousin who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and got into drugs early on.
All attempts to turn him from the &#8220;dark side&#8221; failed.  He just KNEW he was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a confession to make&#8230;</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a skeleton in my closet.</p>
<p>Well, more like a skeleton in my family tree.</p>
<p>You see, I have a cousin who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and got into drugs early on.</p>
<p>All attempts to turn him from the &#8220;dark side&#8221; failed.  He just KNEW he was a drug-dealer and that&#8217;s that.</p>
<p>Guess he didn&#8217;t believe the judge when she told him about the &#8220;3 strikes&#8221; rule.</p>
<p>3rd time he was sent to the big house in Arizona!</p>
<p>He was in for nearly a year (out on good behavior), and while we&#8217;re not really close family, I couldn&#8217;t help ask him one of the biggest questions I&#8217;ve always had&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;what are the SECRETS to surviving prison?<span id="more-136"></span></p>
<p>We all fear it, don&#8217;t we?</p>
<p>One day you&#8217;re coming home from work, thinking of kissing your kids on the cheek and finding out what the Mrs. has planned for dinner and then *WHAM*&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;some innocent bystander stepped into the road while you were changing the radio dial!</p>
<p>A few months later, you&#8217;re doing time for the crime (It happens! Hell&#8230;people have been put in jail for killing muggers for crying out loud!)</p>
<p>Anyway, just in case you ever get put in the slammer, here are the tips my cousin shared with me:</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Staying In Shape In Prison</span></h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re small and weak, or fat and out of shape, you&#8217;re easy pickings for the bullies looking to add some ego points to their cell-cred.</p>
<p>Use your time during lockdown in your cell to do pushups, crunches and handstand presses to keep your upper body strong and your abs tight.</p>
<p>Out in the yard, STAY AWAY from the iron pit Unless you&#8217;re already stacked with muscle like a steroid-juiced mutant!</p>
<p>This is where the big boys hang out and they don&#8217;t take kindly to pipsqueeks entering their territory.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Avoiding Prison Rape</span></h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re seen as weak and you&#8217;re in a high security prison, you&#8217;re likely to be targeted for assault.</p>
<p>There are different &#8220;classes&#8221; of violation in prison and your goal is to be in the &#8220;men&#8217;s&#8221; group.</p>
<p>These are the guys who have never been &#8220;penetrated&#8221;.  Once you are, you lose your status and you&#8217;re on the &#8220;fair game&#8221; list. Not good.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re targeted, fight back as viciously and loudly as possible.</p>
<p>One other thing&#8230;that tough guy that&#8217;s befriending you and showing you the ropes out of the kindness of your heart?</p>
<p>He&#8217;s setting you up!</p>
<p>One option you have is to <strong>STRIKE <span style="text-decoration: underline;">FIRST</span>!</strong></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Fighting In Prison</span></h3>
<p>Unless you&#8217;ve been brought up in a gang and are experienced in fighting, you&#8217;re about to get schooled quick.</p>
<p>That haymaker punch you used in high school will get you stomped on quick in prison.</p>
<p><strong>You need to take this predator out with <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ONE</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">STRIKE</span>!</strong></p>
<p>Two things will happen:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  You&#8217;re likely to get paid back for the beating. Deal with it and stand your ground.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Weakness is the worst attribute you can have in prison and you&#8217;re guaranteed to attract many more attempts at taking you down if you&#8217;re easy prey.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  You&#8217;ll at least have some respect that you took out a respected player in the system and that&#8217;s the start of moving up the scale.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">If you don&#8217;t know how to drop a seasoned gangbanger twice your size, it&#8217;s not as hard as you think.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">I cover some of the most brutal &#8220;<strong>one-shot destroyers</strong>&#8221; in my book &#8220;<strong><em><span style="color: #800000;">Street Fighting Uncaged</span></em></strong>&#8221; at <strong><a href="http://www.StreetFightingUncaged.com">www.StreetFightingUncaged.com</a></strong>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This &#8220;how-to&#8221; guide shows in graphic detail the most vulnerable spots on the human body and the simplest way to use them to your advantage to <strong>cripple, maim, or even kill a grown man</strong> intent on making you his &#8220;queen&#8221;.</p>
<p>Using these techniques will help protect your life (and your &#8220;manhood&#8221;) but it may also buy you a possibility of getting into a competing gang for protection.</p>
<p>Take it.</p>
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		<title>Is Your Martial Arts Training BACKWARDS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a problem with “martial arts”.
No, I’m not going to launch into some “anti-martial arts” rant about how it’s ineffective in a real street fight (though I have my opinions).
But the problem I have with most martial arts systems is that they teach their students how to defend themselves completely BACKWARDS!
Let me explain…
If you’ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">I have a problem with “martial arts”.</p>
<p>No, I’m not going to launch into some “anti-martial arts” rant about how it’s ineffective in a real street fight (though I have my opinions).</p>
<p>But the problem I have with most martial arts systems is that they teach their students how to defend themselves completely BACKWARDS!</p>
<p>Let me explain…<span id="more-99"></span></p>
<p>If you’ve ever taken a single class in a “martial art”, then you know that your training begins with learning how to get in the perfect stance to strike from…the perfect punching form…blocking…a fancy schmancy takedown…etc.</p>
<p>Eventually you progress to more advanced strikes, kicks, katas, and even more fancy schmancy takedowns.  And then finally, if you’re in a very progressive school…you MAY (if you’re darned lucky) get into how to actually AVOID using those techniques. You see&#8230;</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">&#8230;A “Fight” Is What Happens When<br />
All Things Have Gone WRONG!</span></strong></h3>
<p style="text-align: left;">You weren’t able to identify and avoid a bad situation…</p>
<p>&#8230;you weren’t able to talk down the 300 lb gorilla snorting in your face because he thought you were checking out his girlfriend</p>
<p>&#8230;you let your attacker get too close to you and woke up in a hospital bed</p>
<p>&#8230;you let your ego get the best of you and decided to “stand up” for your wife when some guy made a comment</p>
<p>…the list goes on.</p>
<p>I’ve never attended (or even heard of) a self defense program that STARTED by taking you out behind the school to show you how to walk around a corner of a building in a way that doesn’t let a waiting attacker catch you by surprise…</p>
<p>&#8230;or how to use your car windows as a mirror to see what’s going on around you while you’re approaching it in a parking lot…</p>
<p>&#8230;or how to set aside your ego to talk down the guy at the bar who thought you were looking at his girlfriend.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re out there. You may even attend one or be that kind of instructor.  I&#8217;ve just not seen it yet.</p>
<p>The number of potentially dangerous situations are limitless, but learning how to avoid a fight should be the very FIRST thing martial arts instructors teach in their schools.</p>
<p>Not in place of, but rather along side the techniques that can be used should avoidance and de-escalation fail.</p>
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