Krav Maga Blog Articles

When I was a teenager practicing Judo, I attended two very different dojos, for two very distinct reasons. My “main” dojo was very interested in competition and competing. It had produced several regional and national competitors and champions (I would later go on to be one of them) and was very much about producing competitive Judokas. One of the instructors had a wrestling background and would often teach wrestling applications for Judo, with the idea being that this could give us an unorthodox advantage in competition etc. The other Dojo I attended was “traditional”, with most of the instruction being...

When I first moved to the greater Boston area (2008), I wanted to get a “feel” for crime in the area. At the top-level, the crime statistics for the various cities that make up the greater Boston area are a good place to start. However, even in relatively small units of space, offending isn’t uniformly spread out e.g., there may be particular streets, or street corners, where certain types of offenses tend to be committed, with these concentrations forming crime hotspots. Sometimes the built environment can split a neighborhood, restricting crime to specific areas; a busy road may keep offending...

The Virginia Tech active shooter, Seung-Hoi Cho, like many other killers who engage in rampage killings in educational settings left a “manifesto”. In it he stated, “You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off.” Cho like many other mass killers, believed that he had run out of options and there was only one left to him i.e., to engage in a rampage killing. It would be easy to view this explanation as the work of someone trying to justify actions...