Black Belt Magazine Video

Take your Karate training to the next level! In this highly anticipated 2-DVD set, Kenji Yamaki - one of only 14 people in the world to have endured the 100-man kumite - explains and demonstrates his stylized yamaki-ryu take on classic kyokushin karate.

Former military security and SWAT team officer Jim Wagner, creator of the Reality-Based Personal Protection system, joins Detective Joanna Clark for this useful lesson in self-defense techniques for women. Using military and law enforcement tactics, Wagner and Clark demonstrate methods for escaping a variety of assault situations. The program also includes essential weapons training and safety.

With this step-by-step defense course from martial arts expert Jim Wagner, you'll learn how to fend off a knife attack. Lessons cover the 12 possible attack angles, primary blocks, the correct grip and Wagner's knife-disarm principle. The class also includes three conflict maneuvers that will help improve your reaction time and swiftness in repelling a knife assault: the freestyle drill, the feeding drill and the one-for-one drill.

Learn core defensive tactics with this step-by-step program from self-defense expert Jim Wagner. Based on military and police methods, this course covers threat zones, angled arm blocks, conflict stances, Wagner's own piston arm strikes and more. The course also covers proper head-butting techniques, leg strikes and counters, stopping power and the legalities of the use of force -- all strategies that are easy to learn and teach.

Jim Wagner, one of the world's top police and military defensive -tactics instructor, delivers a step-by-step program that shows you how to defend yourself should you end up on the ground. He covers tackle defense, opponent takedowns and powerful arm strikes, and his Ground Survival course also shows you how to use your environment to your benefit, how to get back up on your feet, plus expert methods for evasion and escape.

In this instructional program, self-defense expert JimWagner teaches viewers basic handgun techniques for protection and defense. In addition to gun safety and shooting, lessons explain how to conduct an in-home drill for practice using nonlethal air guns. Wagner brings more than two decades' worth of experience as a military and law enforcement officer to his Reality-Based Personal Protection system.

In a dangerous world, it's important to know how to defend yourself. This instructional program features techniques for thwarting a carjacking, chemical attack, armed robbery, gang violence and other assaults. Host Jim Wagner brings more than 20 years' experience in military, law enforcement and SWAT team security to his self-described Reality-Based Personal Protection system, designed to protect the average citizen.