Knights Tactical

THE WRONG SELF-DEFENSE BOOK CAN LEAVE YOU WITH MORE TO REMEMBER AND NO CLEARER IDEA WHAT TO DO.

That's the risk.

You spend the money.

You read the techniques.

You learn the combinations.

You finish the book with MORE information—and potentially MORE decisions competing for your attention when something actually goes wrong.

So before I ask you to buy Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition, I'm asking you to LOOK INSIDE.

These are actual pages from the book.

118 fully illustrated pages built around a different proposition:

DON'T BUY MORE TECHNIQUES.

BUY A CLEARER WAY TO THINK ABOUT THE PROBLEM.

What do you recognize?

What do you protect first?

What matters next?

Has the situation changed?

Is there an opportunity to leave?

That's where Decision Compression™ and Procedural Intelligence™ come together.

Recognize.

Protect.

Decide.

Reassess.

Leave.

Swipe through the actual pages.

See what you're getting BEFORE you spend your money.

If you're looking for another encyclopedia of fighting techniques, this may not be the book for you.

But if you want a self-defense system built around reducing unnecessary decisions, recognizing what matters under pressure, and creating the opportunity to GET HOME SAFELY—

THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE BUYING.

Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition

118 fully illustrated pages.

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SEE THE BOOK.

UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE.

THEN DECIDE.

THE BAG ISN'T THE LESSON.

The lesson is what happens to your structure when something suddenly occupies your space.

It's easy to look organized when nothing is happening.

Pressure changes that.

Distance collapses.

Vision changes.

Balance changes.

Time disappears.

And suddenly the question isn't:

How many techniques do you know?

It's:

WHAT CAN YOU STILL ORGANIZE WHEN THE PROBLEM IS ALREADY HERE?

That's one of the reasons I rebuilt Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™ for the Second Edition.

And it's why this book may matter to YOU.

Because self-defense probably won't announce itself in a training room.

It may begin while you're walking to your car.

Waiting for a train.

Stepping into an elevator.

Coming through your apartment door.

Walking home with someone you love.

In those moments, you don't need hundreds of techniques competing for your attention.

YOU NEED TO RECOGNIZE WHAT MATTERS NEXT.

Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition is designed around that problem.

Protective structure.

Movement.

Position.

Reassessment.

Exit.

Decision Compression™ helps reduce unnecessary choices.

Procedural Intelligence™ helps connect recognition to useful action without taking away your ability to reassess.

You don't have to become a martial artist to become BETTER PREPARED.

And you don't have to defeat another person for self-defense to succeed.

The payoff isn't what happens in the gym.

It's getting through the parking lot.

Getting off the train.

Getting through your front door.

Looking at the person beside you and knowing BOTH OF YOU MADE IT HOME.

GETTING HOME SAFELY IS THE OUTCOME.

Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition

118 fully illustrated pages.

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FOUR PICTURES CAN SHOW YOU WHAT HAPPENED.

They can't show you everything that had to be recognized before it happened.

When do you protect?

When do you move?

When does protection become action?

When do you stop?

And when the opportunity to leave appears, will you recognize it?

That's the part of self-defense I'm interested in.

Not collecting more techniques.

Learning to make BETTER DECISIONS when there is less time to make them.

Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition was rebuilt around that problem.

Decision Compression™.

Procedural Intelligence™.

Protective structure.

Movement.

Action when necessary.

Reassessment.

Exit.

The images can show you the positions.

THE BOOK EXPLAINS WHY ONE MOMENT BECOMES THE NEXT.

Because knowing how to do something isn't enough.

You also have to recognize WHEN IT MATTERS—and when it doesn't anymore.

The objective isn't to stay and demonstrate everything you know.

The objective is to GET HOME SAFELY.

Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition

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YOU ALREADY CARRY TOOLS.

The question is whether you recognize them.

Most people look at a belt and see a belt.

Keys are keys.

A doorway is a doorway.

A table is a table.

A backpack is a backpack.

But when circumstances change, ordinary things can take on different functions.

A doorway can become an exit.

A table can become a barrier.

A backpack can help create separation.

And something you're already carrying may help you manage distance long enough to get away.

That doesn't mean turning everyday life into an arsenal.

It means learning to SEE OPTIONS.

Distance.

Barriers.

Movement.

Structure.

Improvisation.

Exit.

This is one of the ideas BEHIND Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition.

Self-defense isn't simply a collection of techniques for fighting another person.

It's learning to recognize what matters when circumstances change—and making useful decisions before your options disappear.

That's where Decision Compression™ and Procedural Intelligence™ come together.

Recognize the problem.

Recognize what you have.

Recognize what the environment gives you.

Protect yourself.

Create the opportunity.

LEAVE.

Because the objective isn't to prove how dangerous you can be with a belt, a set of keys, or anything else.

The objective is to GET HOME SAFELY.

SELF-DEFENSE ISN'T JUST WHAT YOU CAN DO.

IT'S WHAT YOU CAN RECOGNIZE.

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EVERY PUNCH CARRIES HALF THE GUARD.

This sequence demonstrates Decision Compression™ beautifully.

It begins at a distance with the Two-Handed Passive Frame—hands visible, boundary established, options open.

The first punch drives toward the target while the other hand deploys one half of the extreme high guard.

At the same time:

The body rotates.
Weight transfers.
The head remains protected.
One eye continues gathering information.
The next action is already being prepared.

Then the sides change.

SAME TARGET.
OPPOSITE HAND.
SAME PROTECTION.

That is Bilateral Competence™.

After the second punch, the striking hand returns to the crown, and both protective halves close into the full extreme high guard. No separate reset is required. The structure has already arrived at assessment.

STRIKE.
PROTECT.
SEE.
BALANCE.
TRANSITION.
REASSESS.

Many necessary jobs are being performed simultaneously.

NOT SIX SEPARATE DECISIONS.

ONE TRAINED PROCEDURE.

Decision Compression™ does not eliminate thought. It eliminates unnecessary delay so thought remains available for the changing problem.

This is not PUNCH-PUNCH-POSE.

This is acting without abandoning protection—and reaching assessment without surrendering the ability to move, adapt, or leave.

Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™
Powered by Procedural Intelligence™
Built through Decision Compression™

I learned young what it feels like to realize NO ONE IS COMING.

That lesson stayed with me.

Not as an excuse.

As a RESPONSIBILITY.

It shaped the way I came to think about self-defense—and eventually the work I would spend years teaching, questioning, rebuilding, and writing about.

I don't believe self-defense should make people feel invincible.

I believe it should make them MORE CAPABLE.

Better able to recognize when something is wrong.

Better prepared to protect themselves.

Better able to make useful decisions when time and options begin disappearing.

And, whenever possible, able to GET HOME SAFELY.

Today, Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition reached #1 Hot New Release in Teen & Young Adult Martial Arts.

Two ONE BEAT™ books are there with it in the Top 10.

I won't pretend that doesn't mean something to me.

It does.

But what means more is knowing that ideas born from some very difficult lessons are finding their way into other people's hands.

That's why I keep doing the work.

Not to teach people how to win fights.

To help them have MORE OPTIONS when something goes wrong.

And hopefully, one more way home.

MOST SELF-DEFENSE BOOKS GIVE YOU MORE TO REMEMBER.

I wanted this one to give you less to decide.

That is the difference behind the Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition.

I went back to the system itself.

What could be clearer?

What could be simpler?

What could be easier to recognize and use when somebody doesn't have the luxury of standing there deciding what technique comes next?

That work became the new Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition.

Decision Compression™.

Procedural Intelligence™.

Extreme High Guard.

118 fully illustrated pages.

Direct civilian self-defense built around a very different definition of winning:

GETTING HOME SAFELY.

This morning I found the Second Edition at #8 in Amazon's Teen & Young Adult Martial Arts Best Sellers and #2 in Hot New Releases.

I'm grateful people are finding it.

But the ranking isn't the reason to read it.

What's inside is.

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I noticed something today that genuinely stopped me for a second.

Five of my books are currently appearing in Amazon’s Top 100 Paid Teen & Young Adult Martial Arts eBooks.

Three of them are in the Top 25.

I don’t take that lightly.

These books were built around a pretty simple idea: self-defense should help ordinary people recognize problems, make useful decisions, protect themselves, and get home.

So seeing readers continue to find them means a great deal to me.

Thank you to everyone who has purchased one, read one, reviewed one, recommended one, or simply taken the time to look.

#11—Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™
#19 — ONE BEAT™: Turn. Shield. Shock.
#24—Knights Fighting Method (KFM)™—Second Edition
#74 — ONE BEAT™ Weapons Survival
#76 — Adaptive Survival System

I’m grateful.

And I’m going to keep working.

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THE FIRST REVIEW IS IN. ★★★★★

“A SELF-DEFENSE BOOK I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD READ.”

The first reader review of KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™—SECOND EDITION has been submitted, and what stayed with the reader wasn't a technique.

It was the thinking behind the system.

“The illustrations also make the ideas easy to understand and remember.”

And especially:

“Decision Compression™ especially stayed with me.”

That matters because KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™ was rebuilt around a simple idea:

RECOGNIZE WHAT MATTERS.

RESPOND WITHOUT LOSING THE ABILITY TO REASSESS.

Self-defense should not be about memorizing hundreds of answers and hoping you select the right one when something goes wrong.

Protect what matters.
Act when necessary.
Reassess.
Create the exit.
Leave.

But one line from the review captured the purpose of KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™ better than anything else:

“WINNING ISN’T DEFEATING ANOTHER PERSON.

WINNING IS BEING ABLE TO WALK AWAY SAFELY.”

That is the standard.

That is the destination.

KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™—SECOND EDITION

A SYSTEM OF DIRECT SELF-DEFENSE

Powered by Procedural Intelligence™
Built through Decision Compression™

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Paperback coming soon.

WINNING MEANS LEAVING INTACT.

WHERE KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™ HAS BEEN.

WHERE KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™ IS GOING.

Today, the original KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™ reached #4 on Amazon’s Teen & Young Adult Martial Arts Best Sellers list.

I’m proud of that.

But success is not a reason to stop questioning your own work.

So I put KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™ under the microscope.

The science.
The assumptions.
The language.
The training architecture.
Even ideas I had previously accepted.

If something could be made clearer, I changed it.

If something could not earn its place, I removed it.

One change was fundamental:

HICK’S LAW IS GONE.

In its place is DECISION COMPRESSION™.

Not mindless reaction.

Not a hundred techniques competing for attention.

Not one predetermined answer for every act of violence.

FEWER UNNECESSARY DECISIONS.

Protect what matters.
Recognize the immediate threat.
Use what is already available.
Act when necessary.
Reassess.
Create the exit.
Leave.

The result is KNIGHTS FIGHTING METHOD (KFM)™—SECOND EDITION.

A SYSTEM OF DIRECT SELF-DEFENSE

Powered by Procedural Intelligence™
Built through Decision Compression™

This is not the old book with a new cover.

It is a rebuilt, expanded, and fully illustrated system for people who care less about winning fights than surviving them.

The SECOND EDITION is LIVE NOW on Kindle.

And you don't have to take my word for any of it.

READ THE SAMPLE.

See the system.
See the reasoning.
Then decide for yourself.

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Paperback is coming next.

WINNING MEANS LEAVING INTACT.