In recent weeks I attended a conference that addressed various topics surrounding violence on today’s campuses, one of the workshops dealt with hate crimes.  I was surprised to hear how often they occur, actually now that I think about it, I was not all that surprised.  I would like to think we have progressed passed this […]

There is a lot of talk in the self-defense community about the use of intuition.  On a personal level I am a big fan of utilizing it to its fullest potential.  Anything to avoid a physical conflict in my books takes top billing.  In short, your intuition is figuratively and literally a “gut feeling” that something […]

I am often asked what a potential criminal looks like.  Well the answer often lies in not what they look like rather how they behave.  My personal theory is the media (movies and the like) have wrongly conditioned us to think that all criminals have a certain look.  For example they may look evil, scary […]