KNOW FEAR with Tony Blauer

"For a split second, Reston's field of vision filled with exploding stars. The officer had been in his fair share of fights before, but never had he been knocked for such a disorienting loop as this. As he fell and rolled down the embankment, he knew that something had gone terribly wrong: His jaw collapsed upon itself and he realized that his teeth had canted 45 degrees and were lying sideways in his mouth."

Read the entire article here

I first met Jared Reston at the Shot Show a couple years ago. There was something familiar about his face.  Then it hit me.  This was 'the' Jared Reston - my company has been playing the video interview of him describing his fight for his life in our SPEAR law enforcement classes for many years. We show it to inspire and exemplify the 'never quit' mindset.  Enjoy this call, we discuss the ambush, the gunfight, current training and much more.  Meet Jared Reston. 

Learn more about Jared and the courses he offers here: http://restongrouptraining.com/

Click here to watch the video we show in our courses

 

 

The "No One Special" podcast is a new series that features everyday citizens talking about how they handled fear, danger, and violence. 

Ep. 1: Jen Patton attended our Be Your Own Bodyguard course in 2010. Little did she know that shortly after the course she would find herself alone at a gas station, out of money with several assailants converging on her. 

This is from the message she sent me shortly after the incident:

11/02/2010

Tony, so your class in Vegas just may have saved me. Long story short, I pulled into a gas station in the WRONG part of town East Palo Alto...

Listen to the podcast to hear the entire story.

Jen attended our 1-day course that teaches participants essential principles needed to help navigate violence:

• Situational awareness
• How to manage fear
• Verbal strategies
• Simple self-defense

We cover unique psychological strategies that help people understand what 'bad-guys' want and 'don't want' and how to how to mentally disarm and devalue themselves as potential targets. 

We do our best to prepare and equip people with the skills and knowledge to handle confrontations.

Here is a link to the ATM video referenced. 

ATM video #2 

I met Katie in 2012 when I taught a seminar at my good friend Kirian Fitzgibbons fight gym Combat Sports Academy (CSA).   Kirian has created one of the most amazing fighting communities in the world. All his fighters and his coaches exude a unique blend of empathy, confidence, and conscience.   Katie Toliao Hurd runs the Self Defense Program Director at CSA Gym, she's a Krav Maga Black Belt, a member of the Krav Maga Alliance Training Team, an MTAA Champion, a KMA Force Instructor and last year, she was voted the Krav Maga Alliance 2017 'Instructor of the Year'.   This preface is vital for you to understand how important this call is with Katie.   For those trained in other systems, we consider our research on fear, violence, performance psychology important additions to the arsenal. We've spent decades researching violence and have designed a simulation training system that seamlessly integrates with anyone's self-defense or martial art program to help prepare their students for potential danger.   It's easy to allow your titles, accolades, and affiliations to dictate how you see the world. It's easy to dismiss other approaches when you're as highly trained as Katie.   And that is why this call was so important. Katie, under Kirian's watchful eye, has continued to grow as an athlete, as a trainer and coach and as a parent (as you will learn listening to this podcast.) And even though Katie had trained with me several times over the years, last summer she finally was able to free her schedule to attend our SPEAR: PDR Trainer program.   On this call, she talks about how our system has influenced her, how her students are responding to it and she shares a very personal story and observation about her role as a coach and her commitment to her students. She also opens up about how a deeper understanding of fear, how to look at it and manage it, has impacted her personally and professionally.

In the blink of an eye, Kevin Ogar went from completing what should have been an ordinary snatch — 235 pounds, light for his one-rep max of 300 — to death’s door, paralyzed from the waist down.

Small things matter. A lifting platform that tilted slightly backward, a barely noticeable heel slip, a small backward-forward movement to regain balance, microseconds at best, all combined in an instant. Ogar bailed on the lift. The barbell went out of control behind him, bouncing off the back of his left shoulder, into a stack of 45-pound weight plates, and then the bar came whipping back, crushing part of his thoracic spine. -From the Team USA article 

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I first learned about Kevin when news of the 2014 event hit. I finally met him at the CrossFit Games a couple years later and he asked me to come to Denver to conduct a seminar at his CrossFit Box. Kevin's relationship with fear and fear management is unique, to say the least. His mental toughness has created a compassion and passion that makes him an incredibly motivating and effective coach. It's hard to slack when your coach is Kevin Ogar.

-Coach Blauer

"OGAR: Will of Steel" by CrossFit

GAVIN DE BECKER ASSOCIATES, Vice President of  Protection Strategies, James Hamilton joins me for another important discussion on fear, mindset, training & your role in your safety.

Recruited from the FBI, Mr. Hamilton was the Special Agent selected to develop the Protection Course at the FBI Academy. GDBA is widely regarded as the Nation's leading expert on the protection of public figures. 

FLORIDA SHOOTING - PART 2 (Ep.23) We protect our money, banks, airports, flights, jewelry, politicians, and celebrities - but not our kids. Join Coach Blauer as he discusses your safety & self-defense with four professional self-defense experts from:

• Karate
• Kempo
• GUN Fu
• Active Shooter Strategy

Our very special guests are:

Ben Hollins - Karate John Hackleman - The Pit Mickey Schuch - Carry Trainer (firearms) Aaron Jannetti - Active Shooter 

Episode #22 FLORIDA SHOOTING - SPECIAL EDITION With the exception of our children, we protect most everything of value with armed and mechanical counter-measures. Why? What can we do?  What will we do?  Whether you're a first-responder or not, this call was very eye-opening.  On this SPECIAL PODCAST, I invite five Active-Duty Police Officers to share their thoughts and insights on the Florida Shooting. We discuss School safety, Police training, Active shooters, Human behavior, Violence, and much more.

"We have learned more about the psychology and physiology of combat in the last 50 years than in the previous 5,000 years put together." - LT. COL. Dave Grossman I've known Dave Grossman for decades. From long before 9-11. A mutual passion for studying violence, specifically, the link between physiology and psychology, cemented our friendship. Dave was the first person to really study it in a scholarly fashion and has authored several books on the subject.  We discuss so many things on this call from violence to sleeping habits, his knowledge-base is astounding. Listening to Dave is always thought-provoking.  Enjoy this talk.

Tony

 

Dave has five patents to his name, has published four novels, two children's books, and six non-fiction books to include his “perennial bestseller” On Killing (with over half a million copies sold), and a New York Times best-selling book co-authored with Glenn Beck.

He is a US Army Ranger, a paratrooper, and a former West Point Psychology Professor.  He has a Black Belt in Hojutsu, the martial art of the firearm, and has been inducted into the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame.  

www.killogy.com

KILLOLOGY, (n): The scholarly study of the destructive act, just as sexology is the scholarly study of the procreative act. In particular, killology focuses on the reactions of healthy people in killing circumstances (such as police and military in combat) and the factors that enable and restrain killing in these situations. 

 

I've been a fan of Kyle Reyes since I first saw his 'Snowflake' test.

After watching the 'snowflake' video and reading some of his other posts I knew he would be a really fun guest.  The talk turned out to be more riveting than I imagined.  

Many of my online supporters are hardworking 2a, military, law enforcement and other first-responders, so I know you'll all love this podcast.

Kyle works very hard to promote and support our law enforcement and military.  He's a thin blue line-backing,veteran-loving, whiskey drinking patriot.

Kyle was recently named as the National Spokesman for Law Enforcement Today.

I first heard of Julien Pineau from several of my affiliates in Europe who are training under him too. They said his approach to movement reminded them of some of the underpinnings of the SPEAR System - specifically the relationship of how fear afflicts mindset and therefore movement.  [For decades I have encouraged people to look at the relationship between primal gross motor movement versus complex and fine motor skills and to look into how physiology and fear can override cognition.] 

Lots of big words but it makes sense after a few simple exercises. 

This call was very inspiring and fascinating because Julien has approached movement with a similar filter, including looking at exercise patterns in relationship to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Very interesting episode. If you're into holistic training you'll dig it. 

Learn more about Julien visit StrongFit