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Heaven or Hell
BY MOSHE KATZ
CEO
ISRAELI KRAV INTERNATIONAL
February 19, 2026, Delta 602, Atlanta - Mexico City
The flight is a time to relax and reflect, evaluate and analyze how the seminars are going. I turn on the play list on the flight, I have chosen classic rock of the 1970's, seems like one of the best eras for music. Brings me back to my younger days, the mind floats, the memories soar. I think of the recent seminars, we are working on knife defenses, real cases that resulted in brutal stabbings, death, people collapsing in a puddle of their own blood. I think of my nephews, stabbed by Arabs but thankfully, survived to tell the tale. and "I was thinking to myself this could be heaven or this could be hell", and in a word, that is what this is all about. I was thinking to myself this could be heaven, or this could be hell, and this largely depends upon us, our decisions, our actions.
The attacks were brutal, but once we start training, once we introduce some basic movements, it changes everything, we can survive, Some dance to remember, some dance to forget, some dance to survive. Our Ginga Dance, our movements, our Universal Block is how we dance to survive. We are living it up in the Hotel California. Yes, we can survive. We are all just prisoners here of our own device, we can choose not to be prisoners, not to be victims.
I have to find the passage back; I have to find the correct defense. We have to train. We can leave, if we know how.
Hotel California, fantasy or reality, Heaven or Hell, the choice is ours, last thing I remember was a stab coming, and then we react, we respond as we have been trained, we survive.
Heaven or Hell. I recall a seminar in Virginia, a young woman chose not to attened, a few days later she was attacked and killed. And I think to myself this can be Heaven or this can be Hell. And I think back to the days when I made my decision, I would train, wherever I can as much as I can. And what a long strong journey it has been.
Coffee served, the flight continues, more seminars to come.
Moshe Katz, 7th dan Black Belt, Israeli Krav Maga. Certified by Wingate Institute. Member Black Belt hall of fame, USA and Europe.
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