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  • Crime Waves

    Crime Waves

    When I was a kid at school, having a haircut or getting a new pair of shoes, marked you out for ridicule, ironically in the same way that having long hair (not getting it cut), and having old shoes (not getting new ones), also marked you out for ridicule i.e., you were damned if you did, damned if you didn’t etc. I belong to Gen X (those born between 1965 and 1980), and to be honest I think people of my generation are pretty crap, and I have some statistics to back up this statement. Crime rates started to fall...

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  • The Myth of the Krav Maga Stress Test

    The Myth of the Krav Maga Stress Test

    Firstly, before anyone gets too upset at the title, I do use “stress testing” (though I think the term may be somewhat misleading as the only “stress” part is really in threat recognition and decision making) as a training tool, in some of my classes. For those new to and/or unfamiliar with Krav Maga, basic stress testing involves members of a group, in quick succession applying a threat or attack to one member e.g., a person may have to deal with a gun threat, and as soon as they’ve dealt with that another member of the group applies a strangulation,...

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  • Why Don

    Why Don't You Just Hit Them?

    One of the core concepts behind Krav Maga is that of keeping solutions/techniques simple. Another of Krav Maga’s concepts demonstrates this in action i.e., if an attack is life threatening, attack the “attack”, if the attack is non-life threatening, attack the attacker e.g., if you are being choked or strangled clear the choke/strangle as a first priority however if the attack is a wrist or clothing grab (non-life threatening), start attacking the attacker, punching, kicking, striking etc., with the goal of preventing them from making another attack etc. This is a great, simple and straightforward heuristic, which theoretically means that...

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  • Compliance, Consent & Insinuation Anxiety

    Compliance, Consent & Insinuation Anxiety

    There’s a big difference between “buying” a car and being “sold” one, and it can be extremely difficult to resist being sold to e.g., you know the car is somewhere out of your budget, it’s got a strange smell that suggests the previous owner was a smoker, and at the end of the day it’s just not the car you were looking for etc. However, when you’re talking to the salesperson even if they aren’t overtly pressuring you, it can often seem like you have little choice but to buy the car i.e., you need a car and although it’s...

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