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Integrity- Knowing the difference between right and wrong and doing the right regardless.

Cmdr. Kenneth Russell USN

Life wasn't meant to be easy, but it could get a whole lot harder!

Are You Ready?

    As a Sensei my priorities changed when I became a father.  I didn't see the threat anymore of being jumped in a parking lot or attacked on the street, but instead I saw more likely enemies like economic collapse or the failure of the power grid.  Even more likely than that was my own mortality and health and how I could protect my family through one of these possible events.  Cancer and heart disease were far more likely to kill me than anything else.  I needed to work on my health but at the same time prepare for those other enemies I listed above.  And through all that, to not lose myself in the process.

     I started preparing for hard times over a dozen years ago by doing what I do, I created a martial arts system to follow so I didn't get lost in the weeds.   That system has changed over the years from SPEAR Survival, which was an acronym for Survival skills, Preparedness, Emergency Anticipation, and Readiness, to just Survival Martial Arts, to its current form as the SL7 Survival System.  Click the link below to find out more.

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