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A teacher’s calming courage…

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, For Parents, Self-Defense, Think Like a Black Belt, tagged , , , , , on June 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

What would you do? You’re a kindergarten teacher with a roomful of children. A gun battle rages outside your classroom between drug dealers and cops. Here’s what one teacher in Mexico did recently! This is a great lesson in courage and a wonderful example for how to keep children calm in a traumatic situation. This [...]

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What would you have done? The Chrissy Lee Polis attack…

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Bullying, Self-Defense, Think Like a Black Belt, tagged , , , , , , , on April 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »

WARNING- The following video is extremely disturbing. Frankly, this video should never have been shot; the person holding the camera should have dropped the damn camera and helped this girl… What is wrong with us? Two unarmed teenage girls terrorize a third young woman, apparently because she is trans-gendered, and beat her into a seizure [...]

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We can’t stop bullying- but we can stop a bully.

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Bullying, Events, For Parents, Think Like a Black Belt, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Agree or disagree? Violence IS sometimes a solution. Zero-Tolerance DOES NOT work. YOU may be a bully- even if you don’t do anything. If you’re a target, it may be YOUR fault. It’s time to take a realistic approach to the bullying issue, and we’re all involved whether we like it or not. Bullying is [...]

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“My Kid Would Never Bully.” Really?

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Bullying, Events, For Parents, Personal Development, Think Like a Black Belt, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Dateline NBC is airing a series of amazing experiments to show what happens when decent kids witness bullying. Will they stand up for the target? Will they pitch in and defend the target? Will they “mind their own business” and do nothing? There will always be bullies. While we constantly work to change the behavior [...]

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The ONLY 2 truths about fighting…

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Bullying, For Parents, Personal Development, Think Like a Black Belt, tagged , , , , , on April 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In 26 years in the study and practice of combat arts I have learned 2, and only 2 incontrovertible facts about fighting: Someone is going to get hurt. Probably both people. In San Antonio last week a community of students experienced these truths first-hand. Two students, by all accounts good kids, had a beef and [...]

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How to Beat the Bully- at work, at school and on-line!

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Bullying, Events, For Parents, Personal Development, Think Like a Black Belt, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Black Belt Mindset Institute at Northern Chi Martial Arts Center is sponsoring a very special event on May 10th! Curtis Memorial Library- proceeds benefit Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Bath-Brunswick and the Library! This session for parents, educators and anyone who works with children teaches how to recognize and deal with real bullies in school, [...]

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Casey Heynes is not a hero…

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Bullying, For Parents, Posts by Master Jim, Self-Defense, Think Like a Black Belt, tagged , , , , , on March 18, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Casey Heynes is not a hero… He doesn’t think so either. He wishes the whole thing never happened. “Asked if he was a superhero, he laughed and said: ‘No I wish I was.’” (Rosie Squires, TheTelegraph.com.au- read full article here.) First, let’s take a breath and get some perspective on this specific incident. This event is the [...]

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How ridiculous are we?

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Posts by Master Jim, Self-Defense, tagged , , , , on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

One of the primary tenets of Black Belt Mindset is personal responsibility. Have we completely lost sight of what this means? Here’s the story- Aaron Poisson steals a tip jar from a Starbucks counter. This jar contained less than $5.00. Another customer, Roger Kruetz chased the thief out the door. The thief then jumped into [...]

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Fired for Self-Defense. Did These Workers Do the Right Thing?

Posted in Posts by Master Jim, Self-Defense, tagged , , , , on February 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In another incident of employees being fired for defending themselves or company property, four Wal-Mart employees have been dismissed for disarming a man with a handgun. Did these men do the right thing in this situation? Listen to their story and comment… Click here for full video from FOX News…

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How To Be a Hero- Train to Be One!

Posted in Black Belt Mindset, Posts by Master Jim, Self-Defense, Think Like a Black Belt, Training on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

By Jim Bouchard When we face a tragedy like the Tuscon Shooting most of us, particularly martial artists, will ask ourselves how we would act given that scenario? Would you run? Would you hunker down and hope for the best? Would you do what four incredibly courageous people did and charge the shooter? As the [...]

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