What happens when a criminal ambushes you, lands the first blow, and causes an injury before you can respond? In this video, Sammy Franco explains how to adapt and continue fighting during a criminal assault. These self-defense principles address the dangerous moment when you are hurt, escape is not possible, and the criminal is still coming.
Contemporary Fighting Arts (CFA) prepares you for the unexpected through practical contingency training designed for real-world violence.
How do criminals and burglars decide which home to target, and what makes them decide a house is not worth the risk? In this video, reality-based self-defense expert Sammy Franco explains three principles from his Contemporary Fighting Arts system that can influence criminal target selection and make your home look like the wrong target.
This is not a generic home security checklist. Sammy breaks down the mindset behind burglary, criminal surveillance, home vulnerability, and the risk calculations offenders may make before approaching a property. The goal is to help homeowners think beyond locks, alarms, and security cameras and understand how a criminal may evaluate opportunity, exposure, resistance, and the possibility of being detected.
Using the concept of predatory risk reversal, Sammy applies the same framework introduced in 3 Things That Make a Criminal Avoid YOU to home security, burglary prevention, family safety, and residential self-defense. The objective is simple: make your house appear less predictable, less vulnerable, and more likely to create problems for the person considering it as a target.
If you are concerned about protecting your home, preventing burglary, improving family safety, understanding criminal behavior, or strengthening your overall home defense strategy, this video provides a practical reality-based perspective without relying on martial arts theory or fear-based security advice.
When a violent attacker explodes in your face, you don’t have time for guesswork or martial arts fantasy. Pressure Point Fighting Combinations shows you how to hit the right targets in the right sequence to disrupt, overwhelm, and break an attacker’s momentum fast. This is raw, practical self-defense built for real chaos where one strike creates the next opening and the combination becomes the weapon.
Most pressure point books teach isolated targets but leave you hanging when the attacker doesn’t drop or keeps fighting. In real violence, one strike is rarely enough. This book teaches you how to chain targets into fast, aggressive combinations that create cumulative damage and real incapacitation.
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📕 Now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle
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Pressure point chains systematically overload the nervous system with cumulative stress. Vision blurs, balance collapses, breathing falters, motor control fails, and cognition slows until the attacker can no longer function. This book shows you how to link targets into fighting sequence chains that turn isolated strikes into decisive, fight-ending results.
Inside this book you will learn:
This book is for serious self-defense practitioners tired of theory that collapses under real resistance. Whether you come from martial arts, combatives, law enforcement, or simply want a realistic way to defend yourself, you’ll get clear, direct instruction on what to do next — so you get home alive and in one piece.
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For years, Sammy Franco’s Contemporary Fighting Arts has been taught through books, videos, seminars, and private instruction. War Machine Ultimate now brings that material into a structured online training path for serious students who want to study CFA step by step from the ground up.
What You Get Inside War Machine ULTIMATE:
Structured CFA Training Modules
Learn Contemporary Fighting Arts step by step through organized lesson arcs, drills, corrections, and progression standards.
Rank-Path Preparation
Serious students can use War Machine Ultimate to prepare for future CFA rank evaluation and testing under Sammy Franco’s direct standards.
Widow Maker Program Development
Study the evolution, mechanics, and tactical application of one of CFA’s most aggressive close-quarter combat programs.
Savage Street Fighting Program Development
Go deeper into brutal, reality-based street combat methods designed for violent, chaotic, non-sport environments.
War Blade II Knife-Fighting Development
Access advanced blade-related concepts, tactics, and combative doctrine connected to the War Blade II program.
Exclusive CFA Combat Programs
Specialized material reserved for serious members and not released publicly on the main YouTube channel.Full CFA
Video Vault Access
War Machine Ultimate includes access to the full CFA video library, giving members a massive foundation of instructional material.
Direct Access to the Source
Learn directly from Sammy Franco, the founder of Contemporary Fighting Arts and one of the original pioneers of reality-based self-defense.
Important Note:
War Machine Ultimate does not sell rank, certification, or instructor status. Rank in Contemporary Fighting Arts is earned through demonstrated ability, consistent training, direct evaluation, and Sammy Franco’s personal approval.
Shut Up and Learn: The Brutal Truth About Self-Defense, Street Fighting, and Martial Arts, has officially been released. 👉 Amazon LINK: https://amzn.to/4u5b5RJ
Shut Up and Learn is true combat science. It teaches the brutal realities of real-world violence that most martial arts and self-defense systems fail to address. With over 35 years of street-tested experience, reality-based self-defense expert Sammy Franco dismantles dangerous martial arts myths and teaches the fighting skills, strategies, and decision-making that keep you alive in real combat.
Shut Up and Learn gives you a rare, inside look at how violence actually unfolds and how an experienced professional analyzes, interprets, and responds to it in real time. You are stepping inside the mindset, methodology, and decision-making process of a self-defense expert who has spent a lifetime teaching what actually works on the street.
Highly controversial and unapologetically blunt, this book challenges deeply held beliefs across the martial arts, mixed martial arts, boxing, and self-defense world. It’s guaranteed to challenge—and often offend—martial artists, combat sport fighters, and self-defense instructors across the industry. For many, its brutal conclusions will be uncomfortable and impossible to ignore.
Franco pulls no punches as he dismantles the sacred cows and exposes the flawed assumptions behind popular systems including Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Krav Maga, Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do, Filipino Martial Arts, and many others.
This 300 page book also includes integrated QR codes that give you direct access to FREE supporting video material that reinforces the concepts, breakdowns, and lessons on the page. Study the written analysis, examine the photographs and author’s notes, then deepen your understanding of fighting techniques through visual demonstration. 👉 Amazon LINK: https://amzn.to/4u5b5RJ
Inside this groundbreaking combat science book you will discover:
Stop wasting years of your life, energy, and money on impractical self-defense techniques and fantasy-based training that collapse under real combat pressure. This book gives you direct access to the principles, strategies, techniques, and realities that govern actual violence.
If you want an insider’s look at how real combat is understood at the highest level—free from hype, tribalism, tradition, and illusion—this is it. The brutal truth about raw violence.
If you’re tired of the BS hype, hero-worship, and dangerous delusions in the martial arts and self-defense world, it’s time to shut up… and learn what actually works in the streets.
Get your copy today and start reading.
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After years in the making, War Machine Chronicles has finally been unleashed on Amazon.
340 pages. Over 100 image plates. A weaponized codex forged from three decades of reality-based combat doctrine, mythic verse, and forbidden knowledge. 👉 Amazon LINK: https://amzn.to/4ocLhQZ
This isn’t just a book, it’s a weapon, an indoctrination through allegory.
Every page fuses brutal truth with mythic symbolism, revealing the hidden doctrines of Contemporary Fighting Arts — the War Machine, the Wicked Jester, the Iron Tribunal, and more.
War Machine Chronicles stands at the crossroads of myth and method. It’s where scripture meets strategy, where poetic savagery conceals the real-world combat lessons forged in blood, sweat, and consequence.
War Machine Chronicles was written for:
• Martial artists and self-defense practitioners
• Members of the military, veterans, and law enforcement
• Practitioners of reality-based self-defense and street-level combat
• Readers of Robert E. Howard, lovers of Conan, Kull, and mythic warriors
• Men who seek mental toughness, spiritual steel, and personal discipline
• Philosophers of violence, survival, and consequence
• Students of war, strategy, symbolism, and sacred violence
⚔️ What You’ll Find Inside:
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Contemporary Fighting Arts (CFA) is more than a combat system—it’s a mindset, a lifestyle, and a way of living with purpose and power. These powerful visuals set us apart, symbolizing the full embrace of the warrior spirit. Now you can wear the art, the energy, and the ethos of Contemporary Fighting Arts. Featuring iconic designs like the fierce Widow Maker, the commanding War Machine, and the enigmatic Wicked Jester, this collection is more than fashion—it’s a reflection of the warrior path you’ve chosen. The sale is for a limited time only—click any design to explore and make the spirit of CFA your own.
Warriors, Survivors, and Law-Abiding Defenders,
The battlefield of the mind and the streets is about to change forever.
For decades, I’ve forged a system of reality-based self-defense, combat psychology, and warrior philosophy. Now, all of that work has been distilled into a single codex.
⚔️ War Machine Chronicles — over 300 pages, more than 100 haunting illustrations, combat verse, and lethal philosophy — is nearly here.
This is not just a book.
It is a weapon.
It is a doctrine.
It is the awakening of wrath.
Subscribers like you will be the first to know the moment it’s released. Stay sharp. Watch your inbox. The time is near.
Prepare yourself. War Machine Chronicles is coming soon.
— Sammy Franco
Contemporary Fighting Arts
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