The president of Boker, Carsten Felix, told me that I seem to have started a trend in the knife industry. Ever since I joined Boker five years ago other large knife companies have been getting their own knife fighting “gurus” to design knives and to teach knife defense courses.
The photograph in the upper right hand corner of this web page, the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Blade Recurve, was taken by RBPP Nordic Director Peter Falk. He took this photo while hiking in the Swedish mountains a few days walk from all civilization.
More Reality-Based History Jim Wagner
These days my Reality-Based team is pretty busy: a new USA Headquarters being established in Dallas, Texas, some more DVD projects in the works, and a joint book project with Black Belt magazine. To keep updating and adding material to the website is no less a daunting task. However, we were able to get some more historical videos up on the website in various sections. They are small clips giving some more of my background: my maritime operations training in the Port of Los Angeles, my police academy at the Orange County Sheriff’s Department Class 104, rappelling with the United States Marines and Army Special Forces, sniper training with Scout/Sniper School 1st Marine Division, and some great training with the 19th Special Forces Group.
The purpose of putting up more historical material over time is twofold. One, is to let those of you in the Reality-Based Personal Protection system have more details of my background so that you have a better insight of what kind of knowledge went into the martial arts’ first “complete system.” The second reason is because many of my critics on various websites and blogs have called me a "liar" over the years. Comments include:
"Wagner was never an Air Marshal."
"Wagner was never on a SWAT team."
"Wagner never trained with the Special Forces."
"Wagner was never a sergeant."
"Wagner never trained the GSG9."
There have been hundreds of negative comments made over the last several years about me. Of course, my critics cannot attack the system itself or they would have to also insult those who have paid me to train them: GSG9, U.S. Marines, DEA, FBI, Border Patrol, Finnish National Police Academy, Amsterdam Police Department, Brazilian GATE, Israeli Police Academy, California Department of Corrections, German Special Forces, and the list goes on. Why would the world’s elite keep hiring me to teach their personnel if I was a “fraud?” It doesn’t make sense, but by putting up more and more photographs, movie clips, certificates, and letters of appreciations it gives those people deciding whether to come into the system or not enough evidence to decide for themselves what they believe the truth to be. Of course, I have literally hundreds of things yet to post, but my time is limited and websites take a lot of time.
So, below are some of the newest clips on the site, but I’ve group them here so you don’t have to search all over for them.
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