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Vietnam Veteran & SCARS Founder Jerry Peterson on The Science of Human Movement

Jerry Peterson of SCARS talks about how he got into studying martial arts after he returned from Vietnam. He analyzed all different forms of martial arts then looked at them from a different aspect and wondered about the science. After over 35,000 hours of research, he founded a process he called “Peterson’s Dominant Process Systems” […]

Vietnam Veteran Jerry Peterson of SCARS On How Taking Action Nullifies Your Fear

“What I realized is that taking action nullifies your fear. By doing that, later I realized in analyzing what I was doing that stopped the fear that was building in me and made me a warrior…” Jerry Peterson of SCARS Institute of Combat Sciences tells The David Johnson Show the story of his first day […]

The Empathy Link and Combat from Vietnam Veteran Jerry Peterson

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“The empathy factor is when, in social environment, in a normal environment, empathy is a good thing. Empathy is what makes social unity. It makes us get along. It makes us want to help people… The problem is in a war society, and we’re going to say it that way, it’s 180 degrees from a […]

S.C.A.R.S. The Science Behind Combat and Eliminating Fear

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SCARS Institute founder Jerry Peterson talks about his life long study of combat survival and eliminating fear. Hear how his time in Vietnam lead him on a life mission to study and understand the combat mindset. And check out our other full episodes of The David Johnson Show: Episode 1: US Army Veteran Keith Caraway […]