Article by Tsahi Shemesh, Founder & CEO Krav Maga Experts
A father came into my school because he was worried about protecting his family.
He had children, a job, and the kind of schedule that makes it easy to put yourself somewhere near the bottom of your own list. He was about twenty pounds overweight. He wasn’t exercising regularly, and anxiety had become a bigger part of his life than he wanted. He wasn’t thinking about any of that when he contacted me. He was thinking about violence.
If someone tried to hurt his family, would he be able to do anything about it?
I understand that question because I’m a father too. Having children changes the way you calculate risk. Your physical ability is no longer relevant only to you. If something happens while your child is standing beside you, you may have to think, move and make decisions for more than one person.
So we started there.
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