Jim Wagner has a background that few warriors or law enforcement officials can match: taught the martial arts at an early age from some of the world's most renown instructors, a soldier, corrections officer, police officer, S.W.A.T. officer, diplomatic bodyguard, and a counterterrorist for the United States government. Black Belt magazine named him Self-Defense Instructor of the Year in 2006, Budo magazine of Europe inducted him into their martial arts Hall of Fame the same year, followed by the Masters Hall of Fame in 2011, and then the Martial Arts History Museum in 2013. Why? Because he mod...