School Address
165 (Unit E) New Boston Street
Woburn MA 01801
Krav Maga Yashir is the system/style of Krav Maga taught by 5th Degree Black Belt, Gershon Ben Keren, who in 2010
was inducted into the Museum of Israeli Martial Arts in Herzliya, Israel. He is alos the author of three Amazon
best selling books on Krav Maga. His full-time school is located in Woburn, Massachusetts, just north of Boston.
165 (Unit E) New Boston Street
Woburn MA 01801
Since 2010, Krav Maga Yashir has been running a free women’s self-defense program, through a mix of virtual learning, and physical classes. As well as teaching proven and effective self-defense techniques and solutions, to a variety of physical threats and attacks, the program, more importantly teaches participants, how to predict, identify and avoid violence, before it occurs. It does this by looking at the various methods predatory individuals use to gain access to those they victimize. This is based on academic peer-reviewed research from the fields of criminology and psychology. These studies capture the experiences of both those who have been targeted for violence, and the predatory individuals who engage in them. By understanding the various processes used, and the steps that sexual predators go through, it is possible to identify the behaviors and actions, which indicate that they have targeted somebody.
Our program takes a blended learning approach using online resources and in-person classes. Using e-learning to teach the self-protection/personal safety portion of the program, the in-person classes can focus on putting this knowledge into context and teaching the physical self-defense aspect of dealing with violence. The course looks at three specific areas of women’s self-defense: dealing with sexual violence (rape and sexual assaults), identifying potentially abusive partners (identifying and avoiding intimate partner violence – IPV), and dealing with stalkers and stalking campaigns. Whilst men can also be targeted and victimized in these ways, by both genders, these are types of violence which disproportionately affect women. Our program promotes preventative measures and actions to avoid being victimized in these ways, and also teaches physical solutions, when an aggressor has managed to bypass them. Attendees of the physical sessions are expected to have completed the online component first so that basic questions around these subjects will already have been answered and time can be spent practicing physical solutions and discussing more nuanced aspects of these forms of violence.
We also teach a separate module on the use of defensive sprays e.g., how to use pepper/OC spray. Such sprays are legal to purchase and carry in Massachusetts, and no longer require any form of license. In this module, which is also supported by online resources, we teach about the different types of sprays (OC versus CS), their delivery mechanisms (foggers, streams, foams, and gels etc.), and the different contexts in which they are most effective etc. Attendees of this class/seminar are able to practice with inert sprays against our instructor team, in order to get to feel what it is like t deploy and action sprays under pressure. Whilst such sprays are often associated solely with women’s self-defense the fact that law-enforcement carries and uses them as a less-than-lethal option demonstrates that they are a universally effective self-defense tool regardless of gender. If you are interested in taking one of these classes, or any of other classes/programs, please use the link below to be taken to our dedicated women’s self-defense site.
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