Krav Maga Blog Articles

This article draws from a dataset provided by Boston PD, of incident reports concerning shootings in Boston between January 2015 and January 2024. The dataset focuses on the victimology (the age, gender, ethnicity etc.) of those shot and doesn’t note what the actual incident was. However, looking at and using other datasets provided by the BPD, these shootings are likely to be the result of assaults, verbal disputes and incidents taking place in private dwellings/homes etc. Out of all the shootings in Boston, only around 0.7% involve violent offenses such as robberies – this doesn’t mean that firearms weren’t present...

The saying, “an English man’s home is his castle”, is often used to say/suggest that people have the right to do what they want in their home (including how they defend themselves, others, and their property when it), and that others – including the state – have no right impinging on this. This is certainly how Tony Martin interpreted it. His farmhouse, Bleak House in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk had been burgled before. The 1990’s had been a decade that had seen a sharp rise in crime, especially burglaries, in rural communities like his. Police de-funding had also meant that many...

I’m coming out of my comfort zone with this opening paragraph i.e., I know nothing about basketball. This shouldn’t be important concerning the point I’m trying to make, but if I get some technicalities wrong, please excuse me. Few basketball players free shoot using a “Granny Shot”, where you squat and throw underhand rather than standing upright and throwing overhand. One of the reasons cited is that shooting this way makes the player “look silly”. That’s a direct quote from Wilt Chamberlain who despite using it in the 1961-62 season - which saw him having the highest free scoring record...