Bratmike here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.

So if you were confronted with a really bad guy, a person who was threatening your life

or the life of your loved ones and they had the capacity to do it, would you know what

to do to protect yourself or your loved ones? Well, our guest today has been training

individuals on this very matter what to do in these life or death situations. His name

is Tim Larkin and for the past 20 years, he has been teaching self-defense program

called Target Focus Training to military special forces around the world, along with law

enforcement officers, as well as high profile clientele, cleaning actors and business

executives. And Target Focus Training is, we'll find out, it's all about using violence

to kill someone to disable them so you can come out and survive. So in this podcast, we're

going to talk about what Target Focus Training involves and how it's different from sport

combat, you know, like MMA and things like that. We're going to talk about the mind of

a criminal. We're going to talk about the difference between anti-social and asocial

violence and how sometimes the best response in some of those, you know, everyday confrontations

is just to walk away and then how do you know when you need to escalate your response in

order to protect yourself or your family? And let's talk about why studying criminals,

people who use violence on a regular basis is the best way to learn how to use violence

to protect yourself. So it's a really fascinating podcast, very interesting. And yes, I'm aware

that not too long ago, just two episodes ago, we did a podcast on violence and killing

with Dave Grossman. Please don't read any, you know, too much into the scheduling of the

podcast. It's just the way the the schedule shook out with guest availability and whatnot.

We're not turning into the art of how to how to kill people podcast. So don't worry that

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