Finding Courage Through Fear with Tony Blauer
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Coach Tony Blauer has been in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives industry for over four decades.
He founded Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) in 1985 and it has grown into one of the world's leading consulting companies specializing in the research and development of performance psychology, personal safety, and close quarter tactics & scenario-based training for law enforcement, military, and professional self-defense instructors.
His research on the neuroscience of fear and the startle-flinch lead to the development of the SPEAR System® a modern personal defense system based on physiology, physics, and psychology. It has been used by defensive tactics and combative trainers all over the world for over 30 years.
He developed the world's first impact-reduction scenario-based training equipment, called High Gear which revolutionized force-on-force training for police, SWAT, and military organizations.
After decades of interviewing victims of violent encounters and studying violence, he created the KNOW FEAR® program which focuses on managing fear through self-awareness, resiliency and a 'movement' mindset. This program has also been integrated by psychologists helping Vets to deal with PTSD.
He lives in California with his wife and kids. He still travels extensively working with individuals, corporations and government organizations around the world, providing solutions for training, performance, assessment and credentialing them to help enhance mental and physical safety of everyone that he helps train.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men, we are warriors, we are dads, dads with a purpose, dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.6 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.8 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.6 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.2 | Sweep the leg. |
| 0:33.0 | What's up guys? |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the dad edge podcast. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm Larry Hagner. |
| 0:36.7 | I am your host and founder of this show podcast and movement. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm sure judging by today's title, you know we are talking about protection. |
| 0:48.0 | We're talking about fear actually. |
| 0:50.7 | One of the things that's been really, really fascinating, just in the human psychology, |
| 0:55.4 | not to mention the fact of being a dad and a husband, all these things that we are |
| 0:58.9 | as men, but even just the human psychology around protecting ourselves, protecting our |
| 1:04.7 | loved ones, but also most importantly, managing fear, like the entire psychology behind fear, |
| 1:13.6 | fascinating, fascinating topic. |
| 1:15.7 | And a lot of us grew up, if you grew up in the 80s, like I did, you remember the brand |
| 1:21.4 | no fear, and that is no fear, right, no fear, no fear, meaning the absence of fear. |
| 1:27.3 | What a lot of us don't realize though, is that in order for us to be courageous and to |
| 1:33.7 | be brave, we actually have to feel the feelings of fear first. |
| 1:39.2 | Otherwise what we're about to get, we're about ready to go do, it really doesn't, it |
| 1:45.7 | really doesn't, we don't have to have any bravery. |
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