Coach Blauer has been in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics and combatives industry for almost four decades and is one of the only Combatives experts who has successfully affected training across all the combat related communities: self-defense, combat sports and the military & law enforcement sector. His research on physiology, mind-set as it relates to confrontation management has influenced over three decades of reality-based martial artists.

Blauer Tactical Systems (BTS) specializes in the research and development of close quarter tactics & scenario-based training for law enforcement, military and professional self-defense

TONY BLAUER in conversation with John Bartolo
Summary
Tony Blauer and John Bartolo have a very interesting conversation about a range of various topics like fear management, the present political scenario, cancel culture, defunding the police and its consequences, the need to change some aspects of social media, and the Covid situation.
Time Stamps
1:12​—John starts the show by thanking the sponsors. He welcomes Tony Blauer, combative expert, to the show.
6:20​—Tony goes down memory lane and talks about his life’s experiences and the intellectual capital he has accumulated.
15:10​—Tony recalls how he decided his profession at the age of fifteen. He wanted to be a famous martial artist like Bruce Lee and develop his own self-defense system.
26:30​— Tony elaborates about the Know Fear Program.
28:41​—Tony talks about the importance of having the right mindset in any confrontation. Making Friends with Fear is Tony’s ebook where he puts in his 43 years experience into a 9-page book which he wrote in 2 weeks.
30:25​—Tony lists the importance of Clear, Control and Counter and Fear Management.
1:03:30​--Tony talks about the Covid situation.
1:09:25​--John talks about the new taxes that the Left will most likely levy.
1:14:40​--John talks about the Minnesota incident, defunding the police and cancel-culture.
1:37:00​--John talks about social media and how there needs to be some change. Tony feels that people need to change.
1:50:55​--John ends the show by thanking the sponsors and Tony for coming on the show. He requests the listeners to leave a review.

Key Quotes
14:50​— “My passion for the system and the sharing of it is as intense today as it was when I was a fifteen year old kid.” Tony Blauer
27:15​— “If you don’t manage the fear, you don’t manage the fight.” TonyBlauer
31:37​— “Self awareness improves your critical thinking and makes you more tactical in life.” Tony Blauer
34:30​— “The psychology of intimidation is when I am visualizing what you can do to me instead of what I must do to you.” Tony Blauer
37:08​— “Doubt creates hesitation, hesitation creates fixation, fixation creates anxiety.” Tony Blauer
40:31​— “You can’t be brave if you are not afraid.” Tony Blauer
45:27​— “Fear management as a study of the neuroscience of how we make decisions is really what I am sharing.” Tony Blauer
1:03:27​-- “I know the world is going to end one day but I’d be alive watching it.” Tony Blauer