Tom Sotis is an author, instructor, and researcher known internationally for his work in pressure-based combat training and weapons-based violence. With more than three decades of experience teaching in over 30 countries, he is the founder of AMOK!, a globally recognized training methodology focused on functional performance under stress rather than cooperative or performative practice. Sotis has trained military personnel, law enforcement officers, security professionals, instructors, and civilians in the realities of spontaneous violence, edged-weapon dynamics, and adaptive tactical behavior. His work emphasizes recognition, timing, environmental instability, and the effects pressure has on perception, decision-making, and performance. Known for challenging long-held assumptions within martial arts and combatives culture, Sotis has become a controversial but respected voice advocating for training methods rooted in authenticity, pressure, and functionality. His writings and seminars explore how nervous-system adaptation, tactical bandwidth, and behavioral conditioning affect real-world performance under stress. He is also the creator of The Motive Coach, a profiling system designed to help fighters and coaches better understand performance, behavior, and breaking points under pressure through motive-based analysis. In addition to teaching internationally, Sotis writes extensively on violence, human performance, tactical psychology, and functional training methodology. H