James B Testamonial:

I had met some friends at a bar for happy hour  in Middletown, OH, and I was walking down the sidewalk, back  to my car through a residential neighborhood later that evening when I noticed a man standing in his front doorway yelling obscenities in my direction. It seemed to be only a few seconds after I first noticed him that he was running toward me with a baseball bat.  For a split second, I thought this can't be happening to me but because my Red Tiger Martial Arts training emphasized accepting the reality of the situation and living in the moment, I knew I had to act fast. I used a technique that we had been practicing in class to keep the bat from making contact with my head, and I was able to immobilize the weapon. In that moment I remember Sifu Paul stating that it wasn't good enough to just not get hit in a combat situation like this. You have to follow through with your own counter attack, until you reach the point when your attacker is no longer a threat to your safety. My counter-attack was so effective that a  couple of other guys ran out of the house to help their friend, the attacker, against me. At that point, I realized that I had to run to my car, in order to get to safety. Fortunately, my counter-attack was enough of a deterrent to the original attacker to keep him from pursuing and his friends’ priority was to check on his well-being. It is without a doubt that the concepts and tactics I learned from Sifu Paul Mason helped be get home safe that night.

-James Barrett

Cincinnati, OH