***This promotion has ended, thank you to all of those who helped out!***

In case you’ve been living under a rock lately, let me bring you up to speed.

Haiti just got hit by a MAJOR earthquake, and considering they were already one of the poorest countries in the world, things aren’t looking too good.

The death toll is already in the tens of thousands and continues to rise.

So I’ve decided to hold a special “Help Haiti” promotion.

It works like this:

For every order we receive in the next week for our UDS Home Training course, I’ll personally give $100 to the Haiti relief fund.

Click the link below to claim your copy now:
http://www.ultimatedefensesystem.com/course.htm

And let me be very clear, this is not some crazy marketing scam or anything like that.

After advertising, manufacturing, and fulfillment costs, I’m actually LOSING money on every sale with this promotion.

But, it’s a small price to pay to be able to help save a life.

So, if you’ve been holding off on getting your copy of the UDS Home Training Course for any reason, now is the time to act.

There has never been a better time than now.

Click the link below to claim your copy and help Haiti:
http://www.ultimatedefensesystem.com/course.htm

This is a great way for you to help desperate people out and get some great self defense training in the process.

Thanks,
-Blake

P.S. Because this money is coming out of my own pocket, I can only afford to let this promotion last until this Friday. So go ahead and click  the link below now so you don’t forget. This is a very important cause and a great way for you to get the best self defense training on the market.

http://www.ultimatedefensesystem.com/course.htm

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Boy…you guys oughta get a kick out of these *embarrassing* photos of ME.

I stumbled across them a few days ago while I was going through some old photos with my family.

Turns out my mom had a whole stash of martial arts photos from when I was growing up!

And for all those people who say I look young *ahem I AM 23* you’ll get to see what a handsome young chap Blake Holloway was growing up! We’ll just see who’s laughing in 20 years from now when I barely look 30 :)

Let’s see what we have here…

bag Embarrassing Pictures of Me!Ahhh…look at that happy face. Let me tell you what. For those of you who didn’t grow up on martial arts and power rangers, there’s pretty much nothing better than a new punching bag! I mean cmon, just look at that toothless smile!

sidekick Embarrassing Pictures of Me!Some good ole sparring action. You can’t see it, but I swear I have chest hair in this picture.

1st Embarrassing Pictures of Me!

After seeing those pictures of my gap tooth smile, I guess I learned to keep my mouth shut until all the new teeth came in :)

judochamp Embarrassing Pictures of Me!Fast forward a few years and I’ve began training Judo as well! The fine gentleman to my left is the famous Judo Champion Jim Bregman. He was on the first American Olympic Judo team in 1964. This particular picture was taken at the National Judo Junior Olympics.

trophie Embarrassing Pictures of Me!However, I was still training my striking arts as well! This was a national karate tournament with ridiculously large trophies. Ok so maybe I was just a tad short growing up, but seriously look at that thing!

dropstance Embarrassing Pictures of Me!How about a little bit of Kung-Fu in the mix? In case you haven’t noticed, I trained a TON of different styles at the same time growing up. My parents must have hated the martial arts bills I generated!

blackbelt Embarrassing Pictures of Me!There seems to be a recurring theme with my hair growing longer and longer in every photo as the years went by. This was my 2nd degree black belt test in Kempo, and as you can see from my sweat soaked hair, it was no walk in the park!

worldchamp Embarrassing Pictures of Me!This was one of the last pictures in my moms stash. For legal reasons, I can’t publish the whole article, nor can I show the photos of the rest of my competition team since I don’t have any releases from them or the newspaper. However, it’s still a testament to my very long and successful martial arts career as I was growing up. If any of you legal gurus out there care to weigh in on the rights and legality of publishing photos and print from a newspaper I’d love to post the rest up, but right now I’ll leave it as is…the last thing I need is a lawsuit on my hands.

Anyways, I hope you guys got a kick out of these,
-Blake “The Rebel Martial Artist” Holloway

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***UPDATE: THE CONTEST HAS ENDED***
Thank you to all those who entered, winners have been contacted.

Hey guys,

I am giving away 7 free full copies of our upcoming self-defense course.

Course1 Ultimate Defense System Give Away!

However, before I just go off sending out 7 copies to random readers, I need to make sure these don’t end up in the wrong hands.

After all, this isn’t some watered MMA video. This is real life or death all out personal protection training.

So it goes without saying that you have to be at least 18 years old to qualify…this stuff is NOT for kids.

Other than that, the rules are pretty simple, check em out below.

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Here’s How To Win
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Step 1: Sign up for our free 7 day video course. You can do this at this page, or at http://www.ultimatedefensesystem.com/

Step 2: Send me an email at blake@ultimatedefensesystem.com

Step 3: Tell me four things. Your name, your age, your level of martial arts experience, and why you feel should win this package.

That’s all you have to do. It only takes one minute of your time. I will pick 4 lucky winners 2 weeks from now.

Now you might be thinking hey, you just said you were giving away 7 copies, but now you’re saying you’re only going to pick 4 winners?!

Here’s the deal.

4 winners are going to be chosen based on there responses to the questions above.

The other 3 are going to be based on a small “contest” we are holding.

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Contest Rules
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To win one of the other 3 copies all you have to do, is send some visitors over to this blog post.

The link is http://www.ultimatedefensesystem.com/blog/?p=156

It can be from your own blog, a website, or even a forum.

For the next two weeks, our team will be tracking all traffic coming to this post.

At the end of the 2 weeks, the top 3 people that send the most traffic win a free copy.

Simple enough?

Here is the link again: http://www.ultimatedefensesystem.com/blog/?p=156

Good luck!

Live Fearlessly,
-Blake “The Rebel Martial Artist” Holloway

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Hey guys, it’s been a bit quiet around here lately, but don’t think we’ve just been sitting around twiddling our thumbs!

We’ve been hard at work getting this course ready for you. So in order to give you a small “taste” of what’s to come, we thought we’d give you a little sneak peek.

Here’s a preview of the course…5 DVD’s and 3 Manuals.

Preview5 Sneak Peek of The UDS Home Training Course!

Keep in mind this doesn’t include all the extra bonuses and other training material we’re still developing. In fact, it’s quite possible that the final course could be TWICE the size of what you see in the picture above

Also, for all you guys out there who really want to see just how beautiful these DVD’s are, we prepared a high resolution preview shot of the first DVD, just click the image below to see it.

DVD1Render Sneak Peek of The UDS Home Training Course!

Click To See Full Size

But that’s not all!

I also managed to nab a copy of the DVD menu of the first DVD so you can see the kind of dedication and effort our team is putting in to bring you guys the absolute highest quality materials. Check it out in the video below…

So what do you think? Let us know in the comments section below!

Live Fearlessly,
-Blake “The Rebel Martial Artist” Holloway

P.S. Big things are on the way! Make sure you’re on our email list to get all the latest updates!

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Are you interested in learning more about self-defense?

http://bit.ly/UDSSURVEY

Our team will be releasing a comprehensive study course soon that will teach you everything you need to know to master self-defense.

However, before we do, we want to make sure that we have everything you could possibly need in the course.

So please, take a moment to take our quick(only 8 questions) survey by clicking the link below.

http://bit.ly/UDSSURVEY

It really means a lot to us, and helps us to make sure that YOU get exactly what you need.

Thanks,
-The Entire U.D.S. Team

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This is the 2nd part of a 2 part post.

If you have not read the first half, “Are You A Workout Yuppie?” click the link below and read up.

“Are You A Workout Yuppie?”

With that out of the way, let’s get down to business.

As promised last week, I would have a solution to the ever increasing plague of the workout yuppie, and here it is.

5 things you can do to kick the living crap out of your inner workout yuppie.

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I read an interesting article the other day…

It was about a study done by the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater that reveals the “shocking” fact that reading workout magazines while you workout can actually hinder results.

Are you friggin kidding me?!

If you are “working out” and reading a magazine at the same time, I have news for you.

YOU ARE NOT WORKING OUT!

It seems as if there is this dreadful plague sweeping the world…

“The Workout Yuppie”

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I was down in Atlanta last weekend teaching a bootcamp, and one of my student’s wife’s came to pick him up after the last day.

She said that she thought it was great what I was doing, but she’d be scared to use self-defense in real life if she ever got attacked. She said it would “only make things worse.”

I laughed and ask her what would she do then? She didn’t have an answer for me.

Sadly, this naive mentality that “it won’t happen to me” is more common than anyone really want’s to admit.
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As a self defense instructor, one of the most common things I hear is “I just don’t think I’m strong enough to defend myself!”

Usually, it’s a small female, sub 100 lb’s telling me that she just doesn’t feel that she can defend herself against a large man attacking her.

And the cold truth is…she’s absolutely right…but there’s a catch!

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Eughh…

It seems like every day I get another email from some yahoo that’s jumped on the self defense bandwagon and is trying to sell me his “Top Secret” fighting system.

Secret killing schools, military ninjas, prison fighting systems, fighting systems so “deadly” the military banned them…the list goes on and on.

Frankly, I’ve had enough of this crap. These “Super Soldiers” are nothing more than pumped up salesmen. And how do you know when a salesman is lying to you? His lips are moving!
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