We founded The Other Way Martial Consulting on a simple but powerful premise: everyone has the right to be safe. By teaching you how to protect yourself, we believe we can make our communities safer places to live. As the old saying goes, "It takes a village."
We recognized a fundamental misunderstanding in the world of self-defense. Too many people believe that self-defense means physically confronting those who threaten them. This approach often creates more problems than it solves, generating further violence and community disharmony.
Is fighting sometimes necessary? Yes. Is it required or recommended? Absolutely not. Fighting is inherently dangerous, and participating in dangerous behavior only increases risk to you and those around you.
Our journey began with a single person sharing knowledge of martial arts and methods for establishing safety for individuals and communities. As we grew, we decided to bring our teachings and extensive knowledge to the digital realm through this website and other media platforms, allowing people worldwide to access our knowledge, methods, and philosophies.
Our purpose is straightforward: to provide you with information and access to resources you can use to keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.
This means that even though people can be vehicles of danger, they aren't the only source. We prepare you for all types of dangers by teaching the principles that help you navigate them safely.
This philosophy encourages maintaining a condition of adaptability—not succumbing to life's pressures, but flexing and adapting like a willow tree. You maintain who you are while adapting to the situation at hand.
Our approach is based on a simple truth: the only thing you can truly control is yourself. To that end, we teach you how to gain the self-control required to influence your environment and situations.
Unlike traditional methods, we don't teach "self-defense" as most understand it. Instead, we focus on "personal safety" as our core concept—teaching you how to stay safe rather than assuming you'll be attacked.
Finally, we emphasize prevention over response or reaction. We follow the old adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Plus, we're lazy—we don't want to expend more effort or energy than necessary to create, maintain, and (if required) re-establish an acceptable level of safety for ourselves, our loved ones, and our community. That includes you, our readers.
Founder & CEO of The Other Way Martial Consulting
Sensei Duncan began his martial training at the age of 8 in 1979 and has been researching, training, pressure testing, and practicing every day since. Having studied a combination of 10 different systems—to varying degrees—he compiled a method of martial techniques, philosophies, principles, and psychologies designed to create, augment, maintain, and re-establish acceptable levels of safety for practitioners.
He calls this method Kyo-Jitsu Ryu, meaning "The School of Passive Resistance" or "The School of the Unity of Opposites," depending on interpretation.
Everything Sensei Duncan teaches, he personally practices and has pressure tested in several arenas:
As part of community outreach and mentorship for young people, Sensei Duncan has partnered with "Excellence Plus," a non-profit after-school program in Little Rock, AR that helps youth make themselves and their community better.
The information on this site is ABSOLUTELY FREE. This includes all blog posts and the FREE giveaways (labeled as "FREE Stuff") that we've created for you. All of this is designed to give you the ability to keep yourself safe in your everyday life.
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All of these are designed to help you keep yourself—and by extension, your community—safer.
We offer blog posts—published at least twice per week—providing a variety of advice and information designed to help you learn how to stay safe in multiple environments and situations.
Yes, there are links to affiliate programs on our site. These are hand-selected and thoroughly researched before being posted. We use the proceeds from sales made through these links for site maintenance and research costs.
If this is technically sales, then so be it. Just understand that anything you purchase using links from our site has been vetted by us first for quality and usefulness for personal safety purposes. We use these products and services ourselves or have in the past. Your contributions go to making the site better for you and for others.
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