No longer is it possible to leave our home’s front door unlocked when we go out, or to venture out alone with no worries. Self-defense must be always on our mind when we go about our normal day-to-day business. Unfortunately, there are many people out there who are inclined to do us harm or deprive us of our belongings. We have an ally, however in the self-defense industry and they continue to innovate. The latest example is the mace pepper gel.

The universe is a dichotomy, when you come right down to brass tacks. The concept of dichotomy is that everything has two side. Down and up, left and right, and so on into the realm of less than concrete ideas.

Within the Martial Arts we find that crux of war versus peace. And, one finds all sorts of other dichotomies in studying the martial arts. Dichotomies which strike right to the soul and heart of the discipline, and even question our very right to exist.