Choices

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 26th Aug 2019

Everything is a choice; and choices have consequences. Making a choice that has bad consequences doesn’t imply blame e.g. if you walk down the proverbial dark alley – not that dark alleyways are the premium location choice for assailants - and are assaulted, you’re not to blame for being victimized, but your choice to take this route, certainly helped facilitate the crime i.e. if you weren’t in that location, you wouldn’t have been attacked. Our choices, behaviors and actions have consequences; sometimes our choices are limited by circumstance, and other times they are conscious and well considered. Yesterday, whilst teaching...Click To Read More

Body Shots

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 19th Aug 2019

Although it is possible to condition the body to take punches and other strikes – my time spent training with Dennis Hanover and his instructors/students in Israel demonstrated the effectiveness of such conditioning – being able to effectively target and work the body, is a necessary fighting skill to develop, and such techniques/solutions should have a place in your arsenal. I have seen several boxing matches, where the fight has been ended by body shots e.g. Frank Bruno (1985), Tommy Morrison (1995) Anthony Yarde (2018) etc. and many more where the continuous and extensive use of body shots exhausted a...Click To Read More

Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Face

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 12th Aug 2019

 “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face”, is one of Mike Tyson’s most famous quotes, however it is not the full quote. The part, “Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze”, often gets left out, however it is really the most telling part, as it brings home most people’s response when getting punched for the first time, and stresses the importance of being the one to make the first strike – even if it is simply a disrupting, rather than a concussive, strike, punch or blow. Anecdotally, I would say that in 8...Click To Read More

Active Killers & Suicidal Ideation

Gershon Ben Keren

Mon 5th Aug 2019

In the past week there have been three significant active shooter/killer incidents in the US: three people were killed and fifteen injured at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, a few days later twenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured at an El Paso shopping center in Texas (one of the top five worst shootings in US history), and then less than 20 hours later, a shooter left nine dead, and twenty six injured after a shooting spree in Dayton, Ohio. The suspected shooter at the Garlic Festival died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the Dayton,...Click To Read More