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Resources (9/17/2012) in Keeping Safe
A few Resources regarding violence and surviving same: ~ Impact self-defense: Impact Bay Area http://www.impactbayarea.org/: the organization under whose auspices I took the Impact Men’s Basics ...
A View to a Knifing: Epilogue (6/19/2011) in Keeping Safe
Following my last previous White Raven workshop in Anchorage, I was reading the Anchorage Daily News of Sunday May 22 2011. While scanning the obituaries, I saw the following notice: "Wiltern L...
A View to a Knifing 4 (2/20/2006) in Keeping Safe
Today is Birthington’s Washday. It’s one year by the federal holiday or one year minus one day by the calendar from the day last year that Wiltern Bryan threw a couple of punches at me and then ...
A View to a Knifing 3 (10/20/2005) in Keeping Safe
Today at about 3:30 was the sentencing hearing for Wiltern Bryan, who attacked me with a knife back on Birthington’s Washday. It went well, except for the defense attorney trying to imply that Mr...
A View to a Knifing 2 (2/26/2005) in Keeping Safe
It’s now Saturday as I type this. I went to court on Wednesday morning to testify to the grand jury. It went well, except that I couldn’t get up and demonstrate the moves the attacker made and th...
A View to a Knifing (originally posted 2/21/2005) in Keeping Safe
Yep, I got knifed today. . . . . Despite a couple of mistakes on my part, it became an Impact Model Mugging moment, too. About 3:30PM this afternoon, I was downtown hanging out on 2nd Avenue in m...
End of the Game 7:7 (10/23/2002) in Keeping Safe
Monday morning I awoke in a hotel over in Berkeley. I had been composing a letter to my old school, where the assault had occurred twenty-eight years ago. I sat down at the desk in my room, and w...
Grand Slam 6:7 (10/23/2002) in Keeping Safe
Once most of the effluent and debris from behind the broken dam had flushed its way downstream, I was able to re-surface and gasp for air in the arms of the assistant. He told me in a soft voice ...
It's Going, It's Going, It's Outta There! 5:7 (10/23/2002) in Keeping Safe
Sunday morning dawned foggy, and after breakfast again at Hobee’s, the class reconvened for the final day of the retreat. At this point the class was fighting at full force and speed, the mugger...
Swing and a Hit! 4:7 (10/23/2002) in Keeping Safe
Saturday dawned, and after breakfast at a really good restaurant named Hobee’s, class reconvened at the training center. We practiced the moves we had learned the previous evening, again at slow ...
There's The Windup, and There's The Pitch 3:7 (10/23/2002) in Keeping Safe
Friday afternoon the retreat convened at BAMM’s training center in Redwood City. The teaching staff included one female instructor, three male instructors, and two assistants, and the class consi...
Stepping Up To The Plate 2:7 (10/22/2002) in Keeping Safe
“OK folks, welcome back to the game. It’s the bottom of the ninth, Home Team is at bat, the bases are loaded, with two outs. Home is down, the score stands at 3-0 Opponents, and this next batter ...
I Defended A Boy Today 1:7 (originally posted 10/20/2002) in Keeping Safe
I defended a boy today... He's a good kid, and you'd probably like him. He's 11 years old, smart as a whip but doesn't display it. He doesn't have a ton of friends but he does have a few, and h...
