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This week on Episode 391 of the podcast we have guest Tim Larkin. Tim is a defensive tactics and hand-to-hand combatives expert, and author of When Violence is the Answer. As a former military intelligence officer, he was part of a beta group that redesigned how Special Operations personnel trained for close combat. He has a 25 year career where he has trained over 10,000 people in 52 countries in how to deal with imminent violence, including working with groups like the Navy SEALS teams, SEAL Team 6, US Army Special Forces, FBI Rescue Team, and many more.

Show Notes:

00:00 \u2013 Pre-Intro/Summary
4:02 \u2013 Violence is a tool
8:08 \u2013 Battling the stigma of violence
15:02 \u2013 Teaching children about violence, and the difference of training males and females
18:45 \u2013 Antisocial aggression vs asocial violence
22:53 \u2013 Legal aspect of self defense, only responding when necessary, and avoidance
23:50 \u2013 Tim\u2019s goal with training and informing people
26:40 \u2013 Violence has no demographic
29:15 \u2013 Training kids
35:32 \u2013 Pedophile danger
38:02 \u2013 Not sugar coating violence
40:07 \u2013 Self Protection is like CPR
41:24 \u2013 Competition and combat sports vs Destruction
43:18 \u2013 Looking at sports injury data for vulnerabilities
45:35 \u2013 Taking advantage of automatic body response to injury
46:50 \u2013 Is there efficacy of having previous martial arts training
49:07 \u2013 Alphas, the currency of violence, and the Aryan Brotherhood
53:11 \u2013 Getting effective first
56:56 \u2013 Edged weapons, firearms, and tools
59:21 \u2013 Slow deliberate training and deep practice
1:07:00 \u2013 How Robb and Tim were introduced, and Robb\u2019s atlatl kill
1:08:15 \u2013 Where to find Tim\u2019s work, and 10 week video course with book

Website: http://whenviolenceistheanswer.com/
Instagram: timlarkintft
Facebook: Tim Larkin
Book: When Violence is the Answer