The Ron Engelman Podcast - #05 Tony Blauer - Managing Fear and Adversity

#05 Tony Blauer - Managing Fear and Adversity

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07/30/21 • 101 min

The Ron Engelman Podcast

Tony Blauer is a self defense pioneer whose name and expertise are well known in martial arts and MMA circles. He has regularly appeared on the covers of martial arts magazines and is a go-to expert for understanding the neurological responses the body goes through when threatened.

Coach Blauer has been in the martial art & defensive tactics industry for over four decades. He has helped thousands of people of the years with his insights on mindset, resilience, mental toughness, fear management and tactics for confrontation management.

On this podcast we discuss overcoming adversity both in life and in business. How to be a good coach not just for others but also to yourself by having compassion for yourself. We also speak about how to prime yourself with the mindset required to survive sudden violence.

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#04 Rory Miller - Demystifying Violence

Rory Miller served seventeen years in corrections working maximum security, booking and mental health.

He has lead a tactical team; and has taught subjects ranging from Defensive Tactics and Use of Force to First Aid and Crisis Communications with the Mentally Ill.

Rory worked was an advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System while he was based out of Baghdad. He also holds a degree in Psychology.

Rory has written quite a few books on the topic including: Meditations on Violence, Conflict Communication & Training for sudden violence which have all been quite influential in the defence fields.

Rory Miller is raw, and doesn’t hold back any punches. If you’re ok with that, you’re going to enjoy this one.

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#06 Marc MacYoung Pt1 - Self Defense, the Legal System and Society

Marc MacYoung is a violence professional.

He has written quite a few books on the topic - in fact more than 21, including What You Don’t Know Can Kill You, and Beyond The Picket Fence.

Marc is regularly called to testify as an expert witness in self defence cases and has an in depth, experience based understanding of the complexity of pleading self defense in a court.

His areas of expertise include criminal behaviour, violence, improvised weapons, knife use, defense against multiple attackers, scaling force, threat assessment, and withdrawal feasibility.

In this podcast we discuss some of the cases Marc has been a part of, how you will likely be prosecuted when you use violence to protect yourself, and why innocent until proven guilty does not apply for self defence cases

We discuss use of martial arts in the military and why it’s critical that martial arts should be taught in every high school as part of the curriculum.

Finally we go in depth into how people with violent intentions will use your social scripts against you and what you can do about it.