Graphic Video, but this is what domestic violence looks like. As the officer says, nearly 60% of victims recant their stories out of fear of harm, not being believed, blame, plus many other reasons due to the multiple manipulative strategies of their attacker! For people to just say, "They should have reported it!" without any empathy or understanding into the psychology of physical, emotional and verbal abuse is either ignorant or one is a sociopath/psychopath particularly when the evidence is right there! http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/video-shows-macomb-county-bodybuilder-s-violent-attack-of-girlfriend#/ Keep SAFE! Chris Roberts Managing Director, SAFE International www.safeinternational.biz

I have brought this up briefly in the past but thought worthy of mention again in a bit more detail.  Our business SAFE International has taught self defense to more than 200,000 people since 1994 and while that might sound like a large number, it is just a tiny, miniscule drop in the bucket compared to how many do not learn self defense or even feel they need it.  In previous blogs I have spoken about apathy and denial and how some people do not think or feel they need to learn self defense because they "live in a safe neighbourhood" with no crime, or they feel their loved ones or even dog will protect them if they do fall prey to violence.  Then those times they do find themselves in a violent encounter the go into denial w...

In light of our upcoming Rich 'N Roberts knife defense workshop in Toronto, ON on July 14 & 15 (INFO HERE) I wanted to offer up a video on one of the most important topics we cover during our Knife Defense Workshops.  In our ongoing campaign to be completely honest in regards to knife defense "techniques" that do and do not work, Richard Dimitri and yours truly show the range at which point knife defense is virtually impossible!  Well virtually impossible if left to chance, luck, the planets being aligned.  FIrst, check out the video and I will offer some additional thoughts.   In this video, albeit a demo which makes a real attack much more difficult to defend against, we show how the hand is quicker than the e...