THE MARTIALIST ISSUE 2.07

The Martialist continues its second year with this seventh issue for 2004.  This publication has become widely known in a year and a half of regular issues.  We've built an impressive body of work and continue to innovate. Respected manufacturers in the self-defense and tools industries recognize us as an influential and informative venue through which they can reach a broad audience. Subscribers send e-mail regularly thanking us for the content that appears on these pages. None of this would have been possible without our contributors and without our readers. You have made this magazine – your magazine – something truly special. I cannot thank you enough for that.

If you haven't already done so, I strongly encourage you to register and participate in the official discussion forum of The Martialist:  Pax Baculum, a play on words that loosely means "peace through force."

Once again I encourage anyone considering writing for us to go ahead and submit their work.  We'll seriously consider anything that is sent here, so if you're throwing around an article idea, please do feel free to send it along.  If we can't use it, we won't, but we like to look at everything.

Don't forget that half of the magazine is available for free, right here, every month.  Just so you can catch up, if you haven't read the free content for our issues so far this year, here are links to them:

Issue 2.07  ♠  Issue 2.05-2.06  ♠  Issue 2.04  
Issue 2.03  ♠  Issue 2.02  ♠  Issue 2.01  
YEAR ONE 2004  ♠  March 2004
Jan-Feb 2004  ♠  December 2003  ♠  November 2003
October 2003  ♠  September 2003  ♠  August 2003
July 2003  ♠  June 2003  ♠  May 2003

In the column to the right you'll see a link to this month's free content repeated.  Below that is the listing of this issue's subscriber content.  Each issue contains such a list – so you can see what you're missing.  We hope that if you like what you see for free online, you'll be intrigued by the topics covered in our subscriber mailing.  To subscribe and receive these articles each month via e-mail, click here.

Our goal at The Martialist is to provide you with quality information, education, and entertainment – material that will help you make choices about realistic self-defense.    You may not like everything you see, but that's okay – because I don't agree with everything I publish from others, either.  (We encourage you to submit your own articles from different perspectives, too.)  As you will read many times in perusing our articles, the choice is yours. 

Make it wisely.

Click here For the free content

This issue's subscriber content:

Thanksgiving
By Phil Elmore

The 4D Maglite: Still Worthwhile
By Phil Elmore

Appropriating the Sword
By Stephen Mallory

Work with Power
By Phil Elmore

Grappling and Groundfighting in Perspective
By  Carter Block

Little Innovations in Carry Gear
By Stephen Mallory

The Dreaded Pak Sao Circle
By Phil Elmore

My Father, the Martialist
By Phil Elmore