Self-defense

Self-defense is the reason most people in the county call. This shelf covers what Rex teaches when that is your goal: seeing it coming and leaving early, what to do about a wrist grab, what happens if you end up on the ground, and why somebody bigger and stronger is a problem you solve with position instead of muscle.

Read the answer on the single most important skill first. It is not a technique. Rex has three black belts, in first-generation Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Kenpo and Tang Soo Do, and he will still tell you the fight you walk away from is the one you won. Everything physical sits underneath that, not on top of it. After that, read the one on whether sport martial arts hold up in a real situation, because that is the argument people have online and he has an answer he can show you on the mat.

He will not sell you a system that handles everything in six sessions. He will tell you which few things hold up when you are scared and tired, drill them until your body does them without you, and be straight about weapons and multiple people, which are bad situations no seminar fixes. This shelf is for anyone who has felt wrong walking to their car at night, for parents, and for people in their sixties who have been told they are past learning this. They are not.