Who are you?
My name is Wim Demeere. I’m a Belgian martial arts instructor and personal trainer based outside Brussels. I started traiinng at age 13 and never stopped, teaching since the early 1990s. I practice(d) a wide range of martial arts and self-defense systems: Boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, and various traditional styles. Over the years, I’ve written several books on martial arts and self-defense, produced instructional videos, and coached everyone from beginners to competitive fighters. I also run the Wim Demeere Podcast, now past 160 episodes, where I talk with practitioners, experts, and thinkers with profound knowledge and experience.
Why did you start this blog?
This blog is a reincarnation of a website I started in 1999, a practical martial arts and self-defense blog. I cover technique breakdowns, book reviews, training methods, interviews and much more. That content is still here, but over the years the scope has expanded. I now write about violence at every scale: from how to throw a better punch, to surviving a street confrontation. But also how self-defense law actually works, and why entire societies sometimes lose the ability to protect themselves. Those things are connected. If you want to understand how, read What This Blog Is Actually About.
New here and not sure where to start? Use this page.
What’s the goal?
Same as it’s always been: to give you something you can actually use. That might be a technique, a training method, a book recommendation, a framework for thinking about violence, or just a different perspective on something you thought you already understood. If you find something here and it helps how you train or think, I’ve done my job.
I’m not always right, and I don’t expect you to agree with everything. The value is in examining and exchanging ideas, not in consensus or proving the other “wrong.”
What platforms are you on?
My blog is a public archive: free, searchable, going back decades.
The podcast is free. It’s a more practical way of covering a topic that would take too long to read. I also have conversations with interesting guests.
Patreon is where the exclusive, in-depth material lives: comprehensive violence analysis, instructional videos, and the second half of most podcast interviews with Q&A with the guest. If you want more than my blog and podcast provide, that’s where to go.
How do I contact you?
.
