Krav Maga Blog - Oct 2020

When I was a growing up there was a joke about a guy in a brand-new Mercedes visiting a rundown neighborhood in Glasgow. He parks the car, next to a dilapidated tenement building, and as he gets out a small child comes up to him and for five quid offers to look after his car; to make sure nobody tries to break into it, or steal it etc. The owner refuses, and smugly points to the back seat where a 90-pound Rottweiler is sitting. As he turns to walk away, the kid shouts after him, “Is he any good at...

When we talk about “self-defense”, we aren’t referring to a system/style or even an approach, but to the legal use of violence; in fact, to make a claim of self-defense you are admitting to using physical force against another person(s). However, you are making the argument that you were justified in doing so. Unfortunately, many people don’t understand when they are legally justified to use violence and when they aren’t, and often believe erroneously that what is morally right must be legally right and/or that conjecture and possibility – the other person could have been carrying a knife – allows...

Most of us, at one time or another, have probably used the term Narcissist to label somebody who is somewhat egotistical and arrogant etc. however from a clinical perspective there are several more characteristics that have to be present for someone to be correctly diagnosed as suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The DSM-5 describes nine character traits associated with the disorder (a person having to exhibit five of them, in order for a diagnoses to be made), these are: a grandiose sense of self-importance, a preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success/power, a belief that he/she is “special” and unique, a...

In this article I want to look at why we find it so hard to give something up and/or back down. Most of the fights I’ve seen in my time working door/bar security were escalations of petty disputes, that could have easily been resolved in the early stages of the argument or misunderstanding. However, at some point both parties reached a point where they had bought into the conflict and couldn’t let it go. At that point it was usually inevitable that things would turn physical. What was interesting about this, is that neither party recognized this point, and would...