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		<title>Aikido: Seagal Teaching Silva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I&#8217;d see the day when a well known MMA fighter takes classes from Steven Seagal&#8230; But here it is: I took Aikido for a couple of years in college, and for the most part found it to be useless for self defense the way it was taught to me. But I&#8217;ve always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening a Martial Arts School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the chance to read the e-book Small Dojo Big Profits, by Michael Massie.  Before I go any further I&#8217;d like to mention that I&#8217;m not profiting in any way from mentioning this book.  I&#8217;m very much turned off by single page, sales letter type websites like the one I&#8217;m about to link [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/opening-martial-arts-school/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Users and Their Contacts: You&#8217;re Being Tracked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t use Facebook personally.  I&#8217;d rather not be user generated content for a company that has every incentive to make my private information public.  But nearly everyone I know does have a Facebook account, and I can understand part of the appeal.  As I&#8217;ve mentioned in other posts on digital defense, I consider personal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/facebook-email-contacts/</link>
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		<title>Karate in Cambodia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I sponsor a child in Cambodia via the Cambodian Children&#8217;s Fund, a terrific organization that I&#8217;d highly recommend donating to.  We&#8217;ve visited their schools, met the child we sponsor, and learned a lot about their programs, which are outstanding.  Today I was watching a new PBS video on the CCF and saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/karate-cambodia/</link>
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		<title>Self Defense Weapons &amp; The Parang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Humans have been using weapons since the beginning of their existence, and for good reason. Weapons provide a massive advantage in both attack and defense.  Every martial arts practitioner interested in self defense should learn how to use weapons both to better defend against their use, and to gain an advantage in a serious self [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/self-defense-weapons-parang/</link>
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		<title>Breaking Down the Walls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martial arts have always been about much more than fighting to me.  I started seriously training after reading the Tao of Jeet Kune Do.  The ideas expressed there were immensely appealing to me, as a person who never quite fit in the boxes society builds for us.  And, coming from a relatively dangerous city, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/breaking-down-walls/</link>
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		<title>Defense Against Sugar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Self defense shouldn&#8217;t only be about protecting your physical body from an external attacker.  I&#8217;ve written a bit on digital defense in the past, and after reading this  excellent post on Jarlo Ilano&#8217;s True Aim Fitness blog I thought I&#8217;d also share the video below on the dangers of sugar.  I consider myself to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/defense-sugar/</link>
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		<title>Default Response Clarification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s post on the default/flinch response, I&#8217;d like to make a couple points of clarification.  The crash (our primary default response against a surprise punching attack) and the spear (Tony Blauer&#8217;s default response against a surprise attack) are both excellent responses that really work.  They&#8217;re far better than the vast majority of defenses that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/default-response-clarification/</link>
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		<title>The Default/Flinch Response</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an outstanding video by Tony Blauer that every self defense practitioner should see: Although we use our own default response, the crash, rather than &#8220;the spear&#8221;, the concept is the same. Both techniques are a bridge that utilize natural physiological reactions instead of an attempt to unnaturally react to an attack with a complex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hertao.com/blog/defaultflinch-response/</link>
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		<title>Blast from the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have very little video footage prior to 2000, as I got rid of most of my old video tapes since I had no way to play them. But a week or so ago I happened to come across some old training footage on an external hard drive, of Wing Chun trapping and a bit [...]]]></description>
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