This week on Episode 391 of the podcast we have guest Tim Larkin. Tim is a defensive tactics and hand-to-hand combatives expert, and author of When Violence is the Answer. As a former military intelligence officer, he was part of a beta group that redesigned how Special Operations personnel trained for close combat. He has a 25 year career where he has trained over 10,000 people in 52 countries in how to deal with imminent violence, including working with groups like the Navy SEALS teams, SEAL Team 6, US Army Special Forces, FBI Rescue Team, and many more.
Download a transcript of this episode here (PDF)
Show Notes:
00:00 – Pre-Intro/Summary
4:02 – Violence is a tool
8:08 – Battling the stigma of violence
15:02 – Teaching children about violence, and the difference of training males and females
18:45 – Antisocial aggression vs asocial violence
22:53 – Legal aspect of self defense, only responding when necessary, and avoidance
23:50 – Tim’s goal with training and informing people
26:40 – Violence has no demographic
29:15 – Training kids
35:32 – Pedophile danger
38:02 – Not sugar coating violence
40:07 – Self Protection is like CPR
41:24 – Competition and combat sports vs Destruction
43:18 – Looking at sports injury data for vulnerabilities
45:35 – Taking advantage of automatic body response to injury
46:50 – Is there efficacy of having previous martial arts training
49:07 – Alphas, the currency of violence, and the Aryan Brotherhood
53:11 – Getting effective first
56:56 – Edged weapons, firearms, and tools
59:21 – Slow deliberate training and deep practice
1:07:00 – How Robb and Tim were introduced, and Robb’s atlatl kill
1:08:15 – Where to find Tim’s work, and 10 week video course with book
Website: http://whenviolenceistheanswer.com/
Instagram: timlarkintft
Facebook: Tim Larkin
Book: When Violence is the Answer 
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Great Podcast Robb. I have been trying to articulate what Tim is talking about here for years!
I was a police officer in some of the most violent parts of London for over 15 years and anyone who thinks that they don’t need to retain their propensity for violence in the modern world his quite simply dreaming.
Prof Jordan Peterson describes the need to be able to be terrible or monstrous. He is not suggesting we should actually be terrible or monstrous in day to day life, just have the capacity to be so.
Robb, you are courageous, visionary (as usual) in bringing this taboo topic up. Tim Larkin seems like a most grounded experienced solid (yes, brilliant) person to speak on it. I think the problem people have is 1) appearing rude 2) thinking the other party is decent in any way..targets that become victims fail to respond right when they still have their greatest leverage and energy. My question for a future interview is does Tim Larkin think the nature of predators (and victims) has changed over the past 30 years, due to everybody being doped up on Prozac and digital zombies?