Underground Street Fighting & Self-Defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KbGKWJTARM

Here they talk about Miami but under ground or illegal fight clubs have been around before MMA made it big. This is just one example of something that I've addressed as part of own history. Having fought in street fighting tournaments as a teenager. Like addressed by the individuals in the video above this is something carried out by people from a violent background, criminal back ground and who can't hold a job (like a homeless teenager hiding from my mother's psychotic ex-boyfriend). They talk about experience and heart...

So let me post a question to the readers of this blog, I will post it below.

Physical ability and mental toughness. How does your martial arts prepare you deal with someone like those above?

Remember this is describing social violence & demonstrates a certain level mental toughness. Organized into an Underground Street Fighting event.

The Essence of Modern Martial Arts

The essence of modern martial arts is most often characterized by he growth of the MMA community. However in modern MMA competitions rules and federal and/or state regulations still limit the progress of the technical options available to the martial artist. While Self-Defense Courses and, the more tactically designed Reality-Based Self-Defense systems, offer a more weapons focused and practical from of technical execution they are still limited by the "need for safety" which prevents full speed and full contact execution of fighting techniques. Tradional Systems draw from a wealth of experience and recorded knowledge of more then one master or set of grandmasters, the paramilitary structure makes learning easier but limits freedom of thought or action in execution, a aspect needed to instinctively & intuitively modify or apply a technique without conscious thought on the matter...

So what is the Modern Martial Artist to do? We are told the only way to be an expert if to set your feet firmly in one of three catagories; Competition or sport martial arts like MMA or Bjj or Judo or Tae Kwon Do or Muay Thai, in Reality Based Self-Defense systems & short cut self-defense systems like Tony Bauer's SPEAR, Jim Wagner's Reality Based Personal Protection or even the Fairbairn system of Military Hand-to-Hand Combatives (all good systems with a good foundation of techniques) and in traditional systems with spirit and history unique to them but adapted or not to modern sport useage or ancient warrior fighting techniques. Is the Modern Martial Artist to bounce between all three mainstream branches of martial arts and create their own system or be drawn up into a Martial Arts cult of personality where Grandmaster so-&-so or System founder whomever cannot be questioned and their methods can not be improved upon..?

There will always be a need for tradition especially in the area of the Spirit of the martial art. As a ninjutsu practicer I find that many elements of ninjutsu are applicatable for modern life; even though ninjutsu historically is not a "martial art" in that it has a battlefield application. Ninjutsu is the "Hidden Art" it is about creating results with the smallest amount of force. Rather then fighting we disappear and hide from the threat... rather then fighting we use psychological manipulation to redirect an enemy... When all else fails we Assassinate an enemy so that they do have a chance to retaliate or harm us or our loved ones...

While I don't find much use for the assassination portion of ninjutsu, I do use psychological manipulation on a regular basis. Everything from dealing with unruly individuals to helping people realize their true potential. I have even been acused of misusing my "Ninja Powers for Evil" by Grandmaster David Harris to pick up women... In the modern world of "Civilized Society" the courage to face an aversary directly is replaced with a sort of political in-fighting & back stabbing that can make the threat of physical violence all the more dangerious if only indirectly.
The Modern Martial Artist is at a disadvantage and at an advantage from his older peers; first the Modern Martial Artist has more information and more options, secondly the modern martial artist can custom build a system from several others that may fit the needs and personality of the individual Martial Artist. The Modern Martial Artist has two distinct disadvantage as well...

More information means more useless information to the individual & custom building a system is hit or miss, trial and error and time consuming. I recently watched a video of Tony Bauer explaining "Hick's Law" (More options more time to sort and choose those options) which reminded me of a very scientific way of explaining Bruce Lee's infamous words about the goal of mastery being a daily weeding out of excess and not its abundance. For the Modern Martial Artist the daily decrease of techniques to simple core methods that needs to be built up & is the only path to success...

The Threats of modern society are self-defense against devious coworkers trying to steal your job or keep you from being promoted, false friends who wish to drag you down with them, muggers, rapists, terrorists and even their own psychological weaknesses. The Modern Martial Artist must be built on a solid foundation of psychological and philosophical principles that create a kind of mental toughness associated with the Warriors of the Past, carrying their spirit of self-discipline and self-sacrofice to the modern word around them. Then core fighting techniques need to be drilled so that speed, power and accuracy are developed and adaption and competition to develop simulated experience (not just in a cage or on a mat but in dealing with self-defense scenarios as well) and finally expanded into weapons systems.

It is not a matter of this style Vs that style, and while I have taken this approach with Street Focus Jujitsu (http://shadowwarriorpress.com/products/street-focus-jujitsu-handbook) that concept and principles are not my own to claim, they are not exclusive to myself. The concept is a Spiritual Root in all Martial Arts no matter their form. The spirit of the concept is one of personal growth and understanding. Of being in a state of constant readiness and prepared to face your enemy on any and all grounds by being mentally and physically tough.

Self-Aware, Self-Controlled, Self-Motivated and Self-Disciplined, now more then ever does the Modern Martial Artists have an opportunity to become a Modern Warrior reflecting the best virtues of Bushido Philosophy...

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More Trolling from Phil Failmore

So the great failed one texts me and asks for a quote on a picture I posted with my blog the Road less Travelled. Apparently Phil seeks to call me out as a liar and wants a quote to abuse, to make himself seem relevant.

This picture was taken by me of the village out the "back gate" of Camp Casey (you know the gate across from the old Charlie Company Barracks, oh you don't you wasn't there) across from these barracks.

Picture taken from a camera (a vey cheap one a that) from a taxi cab. But hey lets call it what it is, Phil Elmore needing to feel relevant and authorative. Oh yeah and once again lying... If Phil seeks to claim I was never in Korea &, lets be honest that is where he is trying to go by claiming I lied about the picture. He is forgetting that I was stationed on Korea in the US Army. That my little US Army medal for among other things being a team leader and hand-to-hand combat instructor was given to me in South Korea also known as the Republic of Korea (the ROK).

I've visited Japan, Korea & China while station in the ROK. Never made it to Thailand to attend a Muay Thai boot camp but, wanted to... You can live your life doing things or you can camp behind a computer screen trolling away at others who do & hating on them for doing so. Lets be honest, Phil Elmore has never served in the military (any branch of the military), never was a hand-to-hand combat instructor, never won competitions in the military as such, never been to an overseas country much less awarded for anything while it. Phil Elmore is a fan boy who never even attempted to achieve his dreams.

I make no excuses for things I say and do, you don't like it I don't care. But, simply to address the stalking behavior of Phil Elmore, his allegations I lied about being in South Korea or taking a picture of being in South Korea is irrelevant to the fact Phil Elmore is a cyber stalker, more specifically my cyber stalker. I long ago quit dealing with him, quit arguing against him and quit trying to beat someone who lives their life online.

We all know I've had to endure some serious shit, been charged with everything to make me into the worst human being imaginable but, I survived. I have had to not only compete with corrupt cops who hide behind their badges and positions in society but their snitches, outlaw bikers trying to kill me & their flunkies but I had to deal with a fat, never was punk like Phil Elmore hiding behind his computer screen. I don't like Phil Elmore and I can and have torn down his theories on martial arts and self-defense with ease because its just bits and pieces from other more accomplished self-defense "experts." I'd even bother to challenge Phil Elmore to a fight but, well the fat wanker went so far as to call in CPS on Dan Bowen to get him to duck their fight. He's supplied "evidence" to the police in my terrorist threats charge to see me found guilty and that failed. Phil has interfered with me and my attempts to get my business going (all the times I had to restart it because of people who are of a greater threat to me), with all that he pulls some petty lie about a picture from South Korea.

Sadly, a challenge to fight Phil would be pointless... You see the fat coward will never fight and as I exposed in another blog (Phil had taken off facebook because it was the truth), he depends on the Bujinkan trolls to offer him creditability).
Phil Failmore still stalking me... yet again.

Oh sure Phil stands behind Damian Ross and gets some support from Damian. Sadly, Phil might practice Damian Ross's self-defense combatives or at least endorse them. They both make some of the same claims about self-defense posted here on Ross's site.

Market puffery aside, the WW2 Combatives taught by Ross is based off the old Fairbairn/Stykes system and it is pretty simple, direct and effective. It would be stupid of me to deny that fact. I'm a supporter of the older Hand-to-Hand methods, I disagree that anyone can use them effectively. Damian Ross doesn't say this on his sight, he says "you don't have to be fast, strong, experience or incredible shape to know how to survive a brutal attack." One look at Ross and you can tell he has physical ability and I agree you don't have to have physical ability to know what to do. You need ability (physical & mental) to do it. That's a personal matter for someone to workout on their own or under instruction in a class. So don't think I'm attacking Ross, I'm not. I wish him the best of luck in his business or his endeavors. The Self-Defense Company has an online list of its instructors: http://www.teachselfdefense.com/find_an_instructor.asp Phil Elmore isn't listed. You can learn the best martial art from the greatest masters in the world & it is still up to you to defend yourself. I don't fault Damian Ross with Phil Elmore's exaggerated "Everyman" claims of self-defense; you know that you just have to know what to do without the ability to do it.

We all know what those claims are about how "eye gouges" and "groin shots" can stop someone bigger and stronger then you, or beat anyone in a ground fight and how criminals are all lazy and weak with no experience or training at using violence so knowing is just enough. Damian Ross is adamantly against the new US Army Combatives (MACP) Program (according to people I've talked with about him). This is a cause championed by Phil Elmore, I disagree with both in only two points; a) not every situation in the army requires lethal force (I know, right) which is what the WW2 style of combatives is built around but the military is being used more and more as a global police force so & b) I don't want to be standing up with bullets flying at me in a fight. I agree with Damian Ross that the MACP lacked key elements and relied too much on Gracie Jiu-jitsu.

Without Damian Ross using Phil to review his self-defense system and in turn Damian Ross' supporting Phil for the advertising, Phil would have few people listening to his bad, illogical & inexperience based bad advice. Phil also did a great deal of advertising for Paladin Press which marketed him with his few written books to date like Street Sword & Flash Light Fighting. Perhaps I'll write a book on ridiculous mall-ninja "street weapons" and lets not forget his laughable PDF books like Shorthand Empty Hand (where he mixes and matches concepts to invent a self-defense system with bad kung-fu poses) and Street Chucks (about using illegal nunchaku for self-defense). A "Black Sash" Liu Seong Kung Fu/Kuntao, yet Phil hasn't produced a single valid and intelligent Martial Arts book of any credit. Everything else has been those trashy little Mack Bowen adventure books.

Lets look at Phil's other lies...
1) That I'm homeless... yet I typed al this from my home. Phil wants a home address so he make wild accusations to the police, may be have me SWATed or harass me in some other fashion. Unlike both Phil Elmore and Greg Duckworth, I don't put my home address online where any crazy person can have access to it.

2) Phil says I can't own a firearm. I don't need to pose with guns on the internet to look tough like Phil Elmore.

Phil Elmore is nothing but a mug slinging marketer for Omega Publishing Inc. which owns both Soldier of Fortune (you know the guys Frank Dux sued and won against in court for printing lies) & Paladin Press (Ashida Kim's old publisher who robbed him of royalties from over seas sells). Other then penis envy, Phil Elmore would rather hide behind his computer screen with made up stories about a picture I took from the top of mountain, in Tongduchung (may have misspelled that) I the Republic Of Korea. No, what Phil wants is to discourage you from reading about the truth and those same threats I mentioned in the up coming book Never Back Down:

Out later this month... so buy this book and piss of Phil Elmore.

To be even more stalker like, Phil Elmore texted me and called me 3/12/2015 to comment about his pointless allegations.

Sorry for the poor quality, I used my web cam... but it is Phil Elmore by his own admission and the phone number is public information where Phil Elmore is such an exert on self-defense, writing his articles on technology and yet is too poor to afford a PO Box because he has all mail delievered to his home or his job. Oh and its even funnier when you look it up on google maps. See the self-defense expert placing his private information out on a public medium is unsafe.

Hardly intelligent or practical for safeties sake. I'm not going point out what I could do with this information. I did that to Greg Duckworth, not as a threat but as a fact in how someone shouldn't let ego allow themselves to leave their home and family at risk and got charged with terrorist threats. Well yeah, I pointed out I could have done something if I wanted to years ago (I obviously didn't), I explained this in Never Back Down. My point is aside from my cell phone that I can ignore or turn off, I don't make my home address or other personal information openly known on the internet (I think I mentioned I have people who've tried to kill me in the past). It is simple safety for you and your family, you never know what kind of crazy person might stalk you or seek to harm you. Not to mention identity theft. Phil stalking my online is bad enough without him peeking through my windows and hiding in my bushes. The same is common sense (I would think so at least), to anyone in law enforcement to use Post Office box when dealing with the public as part of business, which was part of my point to Gregory. That's why they list department addresses on warrants and department phone numbers, so that the wrong people can't find out how to track you down. It is SOP for a reason.

Phil's antics not only with me but with Muslims, Feminists, Liberals, Minorities & others is well known over the web. If a Muslim would happen to be a radical (a violent radical at that) or someone was just tired of his shit? Phil Elmore not only puts him & his family at risk but his co-workers as well. I point this out, getting off my original point that what you see is in deed Phil Elmore's correct phone number, to address the fact it publically available information by Phil's own hand & that it isn't safe, tech savvy or very self-defense oriented by someone who wants to sell you on self-defense. Hell he can't even bitch about the screen shot because as you can see, he asked me to share the article, so I did.

As far as the picture goes, believe what you want I'm tired of dealing with a cyber-pansy wannabe tough guy trying to prove he has a pair behind a computer screen. Lets deal with the picture, since Phil Elmore decided to make his post...

More Proof Phil Elmore is a liar...

 

Here is the picture in question on my desk top...

 

Here is the two dates, of importance the date last modified when it was originally created (transferred from camera to my computer in South Korea) on March, 29th 2002. The other date is when I transferred it to this computer January 9th 2015.

I took the time to download the same image off the alleged blog cited by Phil Elmore and look at the dates all March 13th 2015. Guess Friday the 13th is bad for Phil Elmore.

Here is the same file on my desktop, compare the image name to the that above on properties. Guess we all know who lied now don't we?

Just an Update:
I know Phil will have this taken off facebook to cover up is childish antics but this about an hour maybe two, after this blog was posted...

Scenario Drills had 62 hits today, The Road Less Travelled 55 no doubt linked to Phil Elmore claiming the picture is from an Indian blog. More Trolling from Phil Failmore has 49 hits and the blogs date of 3/13/2015 shows it was updated today... so how does I feel that everyone knows your a stalker Phil? Now that you've failed more...

Martial Arts Outside the Dojo

Anyone who has ever sparred or fought using traditional jujitsu, judo or aikido knows that many times in the heat of the moment a sudden or wild punch can stop a throw or joint lock application dead. There us a huge gap between sparring and the real world where anything goes but there is an even bigger gap between application in the dojo and application in the fight. Once you start sparring techniques often become less "pretty" and more direct. We can look at MMA and see how the technical skills of jujitsu or even BJJ look more like wrestling in the heat of the moment.

Here a wrist lock is applied in response to a throat grab...

 

In the Dojo, I could force a non-resisting opponent to the ground but in the real world outside the dojo and practice drills...

I am forced duck a wild swing or take it on the chin, now my duck also doubles as an ineffective head butt and the arm is still leveraged to off balance and throw the attacker. 

 

Rather then wrestle over the joint lock, and falling into a series of counters on each other. I abandon the joint-lock and move directly into striking techniques.



 

 Driving a elbow into the solar plexus & xyphoid process region of the body to before breaking contact.

Granted all this was choreographed for a photo shoot (we are professional actors or posers or whatever), it was all about highlighting the "flow" of a real fight. Sparring doesn't solve every problem to learning martial arts & being prepared for self-defense, some techniques are too hazardous to use like eye gouges, ear slaps, throat strikes and groin strikes/grabs. The fact is boxing is a great a beginning point because it allows one to develop timing, ability and accuracy of strikes. The same jab that delivers a fist to the nose can also deliver a spear hand to opponent's eye or upper cut to the chin can also deliver a palm heel to an opponent's chin.

This is why boxing was something I was encouraged to study from Danny (who boxed and trained in Karate, Judo & Jujitsu under the late Master Tracy Cook) & as an outlaw biker he had more experience then most of the karateka who out ranked him in martial arts. Boxing was also encouraged by Master Cook. But, it comes with a understanding that while competition and sports might help develop basic abilities like foot work, timing, speed, precision & endurance those elements go out the window in a rapidly changing and often hostile environment. The black top we shot the pictures on is unforgiving and would scrape and cut us if the fight went to the ground.

Martial arts that spar or compete often have students who are better suited to survive a self-defense situation due to those basic abilities like foot work, timing, speed, precision & endurance. Where as the self-defense combatives & "too deadly to spar" group might survive a self-defense situation due to the use of techniques that are meant to result in serious injury, self-defense tactics or (in the case of reality based self-defense) a development of instinctual responses based on simulated self-defense training. Some martial arts schools are social clubs for yuppies and little kids, which are completely useless outside the Dojo except for the social connections and teaching social skills which has nothing to do with a self-defense situation.

Today most people concerned with self-defense seek to abandon the value of competition styles for the self-defense arts seeking to short the traditional arts. Traditional arts (whether they have a competition element or not) often seek the build the same basic abilities as the competition arts but do so over a period teaching different elements of self-defense gradually. Many people often seek to train in different martial arts to get the various elements from these different types of martial arts.

I have often said I am a street fighter first and foremost, anything goes and anything that will get the job done is something I look at and adapt to. Like many self-defense instructors I am oppose to the US Army's focuses on competition arts and the removal of the more potentially lethal techniques. However, I also understand the changing landscape of warfare, think all that ground fighting is a bad idea try sparring  with people shooting paintball guns at targets while you fight it out. Ah yeah... easier not to get shot on the ground, doesn't make ground fighting better for the reasons I highlighted above. Ultimately, I chose to modify my way thinking to break down and embrace the core factors behind each of these generalizations thus creating the Street Focus Jujitsu system to do just that.

 



The Road Less Travelled

Many times, I find that I don't always stack up to the competition that some people spend more time following their chosen course in life then I do; be it a martial arts tradition, military service or just setting safely behind a computer screen trolling away. I tend to be on the fringes and with good reason I travel the road less travelled.

 

Sometimes I get to go to out of the way places like the stream above. Where I sat meditating and practicing a kata on a large rock about 10 to 12 feet in diameter. Why did do meditate and practice forms? To perfect my martial arts skills or find enlightenment? God no... I was hiking and we stopped to do some fishing. I hate fishing so I decided to sit and enjoy nature, the harmony of the moment. The forms came as I needed to stretch a bit. Ultimately, I was so taken with the spot I snapped a picture on my phone.

 



Did the same to get this image of a farming village in South Korea, out exploring back roads through the mountains on foot.

Waterfalls I've climbed & cliffs I've dived from. Oh sure I have my enemies & I know they are many.

 Here is a picture of a couple of them now at the same water fall.

Here is a spot I enjoy, a mountain top overlooking the whole of Beckley WV at about 6:30 to 7am. At night its just as awesome overlooking a city lit up with lights, especially around Christmas. At 6 am to 7 am it looks like this...

And of course there are those off the wall moments like below. I was waiting on a friend to get off work at 2 am and was laying a bench. I ended up eating a slice of pizza with a homeless guy who thought I was homeless myself. Then me and my friend went to Donut connection after he got off work were I took this picture of a guy who said he was "on a date" with his blow up doll/girlfriend.

Life is a series of moments and find ourselves in places we do not always expect. We are born with two options in life; to follow the well worn path of fitting in and finding acceptance or to follow the path least travelled. To do the exceptional, to be the exception. Not, because of some external power source granting us anything special but because what is special is within us. This month Never Back Down comes out, and I focus on my court issues and the legal corruption. I'm not one to teach based on a tradition of do as someone else does but on the vast catalog of experience I have, having been a team leader & hand-to-hand combat instructor in the US Army, having fought in "underground tournaments" with gang members and criminals, having learned from a Hitman & had a Karate Instructor who was also an outlaw biker and mob enforcer.

I'm not the good guy, nor am I always cast as the villain. I follow the path least travelled because I don't know how to play it safe and be "normal." I don't need anything to tell me I am special or unique. God made all of us for a purpose, and mine is spent out on the fringes. Everything put before us is a test of our faith and while I have my moments of doubt my faith is strong because I've put it to the test. If I can do it so can anyone else, all it takes is the belief that you have everything you need within you because God put it there in you or in your life & the faith to follow the road less travelled. It is not always comfortable and often difficult.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

The Importance of Scenario Drills, Forms & Sparring in Building Conditioned Responses

High Block against Reverse Punch

Seized the Wrist & Inside Elbow Hook

Outside Elbow Thrust and Arm Control

Don't follow the Attacker to the Ground

These are old Pics from about 2007 but shows a pretty simple scenario, high block counter to a reverse punch. From here one simply turns the blocking wrist and grabs the punching wrist pulling the attacker forward into an inside elbow hook. Use the elbow hook as a distraction to seize the attacker's reverse wrist & push pull the attacker off balance, while executing a elbow thrust/back fist and pulling the attacker's elbow against the chest hyper extending it. Once the attacker has been off balanced and sent to the ground, I don't suggest following them down. This gives one an opportunity to a) break contact, b) stomp to disable or c) warn the attacker to stay down. Remember that each technique is executed only for a split second, and transitioned to a new technique.

Now common sense says that the step by step scenario is unlikely to be executed in an actual fight. But, training in such free form kata called randori allows one to consider chains of techniques that can be executed consciously and allowing the unconscious mind to execute such techniques when reinforced through sparring and scenario drills. Pretty much all martial arts do this, even if some do not spar and, this is not enough to build a competent fighter for a real world situation.

Your mind learns by association and this means you have to train to deal with common real world scenarios. Someone trying to keep you talking to hit while you are processing information and not expecting it (a common street tactic), someone in your face yelling and threatening you to keep you confused and to try to shock you into submission (also a common street tactic). Dealing with ambushes and fighting in different locations. Parking lots are common areas where people are ambushed & assaulted for robberies, muggings and rapes. Here free form randori was used in conjunction with the scenario drill, to a) build memory association and b) force the conscious mind to function under simulated stress mirroring a real world self-defense situation. This in turn builds associated recall of the conditioned responses that are trained, allowing them to be used under stress. However, this is why full contact sparring with similar simulated conditions are a precursor must be used to reinforce the memory association of the conditioned response via repetition.

Phil Failmore still stalking me... yet again.

So in my last blog I address the fat failure of Phil Elmore stalking me over the net and his apparent fear of the truth coming out in Never Back Down. It is always a question of what is afraid of? But, ultimately comes the simple truth it doesn't matter. What is funny is that while I was discussing how Phil got his black sash in Liu Seong to justify his bad advice in Short Hand Emptyhand, I posted this meme making fun of the bad and improper example of a Mantis Kung-fu Stance;

This challenge to Phil's manhood, integrity & knowledge prompted more harassment from Phil including his doughy boyfriend showing up to challenge me online. David Pearson is the co-founder of a martial arts system with Phil Elmore that Phil never reached black sash in and never continued training with Pearson to actually earn that rank. Thus, suggesting it was a failed stunt to justify his lack of knowledge further, with the help of his "teacher" & "co-founder" David Pearson. Here David Pearson (Phil lil buddy & alleged life-partner) suggests I revealed all my secrets for recognition; the fact is I honestly addressed ninjitsu as a strategic art. My competitors in the Bujinkan claim to know ninja secrets that are rarely revealed (never revealed) and are upholding some kind of mythological ninja lineage of taijutsu/jujutsu in black gi and tabi.

Black Dragon Ninjitsu is the only ninjutsu book that covers stealth, herbal medicine, survival, pyrotechnics, intelligence gathering and strategy. Black Dragon Ninjitsu has also been called the best Ninjutsu book ever written.

Having Shadow Warrior Publishing block Mr. Pearson on twitter, as I want nothing to do with Phil Elmore, his "partners" or anything else associated with him. Phil Elmore using a Spam account as Spambot but linked to his philelmore.com site. So one might ask if Phil wants the attention of himself being addressed by me? Which is why I largely ignore him but, this blog and other previous blogs show that there is a record of Phil Elmore stalking me across the net. Oh sure I give as good as I get, but its Phil Elmore and not myself who initiates contact. And these blogs serve as public records of Phil's harassment and attention seeking. If David Pearson is any indication, Phil likes short men.

 

Simply look at the linked account to see that Spambot McEmail is associated with Phil Elmore's philelmore.com. Which popped up right after I block Phil's "partner" David Pearson.

 

 

Above is Phil Elmore's review of true path of the Ninja by Anthony Cummings. Anthony may do the writing but his Historical Ninjutsu research team does the much of the research. So why would a Reality Based Self Defense guy like Phil care about Anthony? Oh yeah, Phil gets much of his support from the Bujinkan in association with liars and frauds like Barron Shepard and Don Roley.

 

 Here is Phil trying to claim some form of copy infringement in the cover of the Ashida Kim's book "Last Ninja Standing." The fact is Phil does this in response to Ashida Kim and launched this attack after Ashida Kim showed a well documented case of Phil Elmore harassing him over the internet. Which Phil threatened Ashida Kim with suit to have his name removed. In order to get online support from the Bujinkan who plainly doesn't care about Phil Elmore's RBSD claims but also sell self-defense fantasies to the fat and lazy, like himself. Phil harasses non-Takamatsu lineage ninjutsu practicers and slanders their products while supporting the Takamatsu-den lineage. Why? To get online support for a flawed, fraudulent & pointless view of martial arts and survivalism that mimics in a sad parody of those of whom he attacks like Ashida Kim, Frank Dux & myself. After all, Koga Ryu Ninjutsu has been an interest of those in the survivalist community for years before they adopted the "Prepper" title not for the martial arts training but for the strategic, tactical and survival based knowledge that is a large part of the modern art & the sole source of the historical art (proven by Anthony Cummings Research).

 

Perhaps Phil Elmore's stalking is cover for where he gets ideas from; often giving bad advise especially on unrealistic weapons like nunchaku (illegal in some states, illegal to carry in all states) and the infamous Street Sword for which he has no formal training in such weapons and all clearly defined as "martial arts" or "ninja" weapons and not associated with Reality Based Self-Defense by any creditable Instructors.