Responding To Media Reports of Violence

Gershon Ben Keren

Sat 27th Jul 2013

Whenever there is an extreme and violent incident, which the media picks upon and runs with, such as the abduction and murder of Amy Lord, members of the public who haven’t considered issues of personal safety before start to wonder what they can do to make themselves safe and avoid becoming the victim of the same or a similar crime - it is worth noting that there are many incidents of extreme violence, which aren’t reported on, and people aren’t made aware of. It is natural to focus on the specifics of a particular case and look to avoid becoming...Click To Read More

Dealing With Anger

Gershon Ben Keren

Sun 21st Jul 2013

We’ve all done stupid things in the heat of the moment e.g. said things, made threats, acted overly aggressively towards others. When the heat subsides, we normally recognize our stupidity, maybe sometimes try and justify it to ourselves, but on the whole recognize it as something we’d do well, or be sensible not to repeat. In self-defense and self-protection we often train from the perspective of being the calm victim/target who has to deal with an angry and aggressive assailant, forgetting that we too can become angry and aggressive, and that we too can behave in the role of the...Click To Read More

Presenting Real Life Violence To Children

Gershon Ben Keren

Sat 13th Jul 2013

The world can be a scary place; seemingly “random” acts of violence which are difficult to predict do occur. Last week In Melrose – a city in the Greater Boston Area - a female jogger reported being the victim of an attempted abduction, when a van pulled up and two men tried to drag her inside. Whilst we may find it difficult to understand what has happened, children who are exposed to such a big local story as this will find it even harder to place such an event/incident in to context; and parents may be at a loss to...Click To Read More

Choking Under Pressure

Gershon Ben Keren

Sun 7th Jul 2013

Most adults haven’t been in a street fight – this is a good thing – and although they may train in a reality based self-defense system, such as Krav Maga, worry and wonder if they were called upon to use their training whether it would work for them. This is one of the reasons I believe in Krav Maga (that which was developed and trained in Israel, and used by the IDF); that it is continually tested in a variety of real life situations by a diverse set of individuals of differing body types and athletic ability, somebody like you...Click To Read More