Just like in e-life, bad things happen in real life, too.

The workshop aims are the following:

1. To go through a few scenarios of bad things happening, ranging from a bar brawl to a street robbery to an armed psycho walking into a classroom. We'll discuss prevention, situational awareness and ways to increase the chance of getting out of trouble with minimal damage.

2. To survey the weapons available to a good guy in an unexpected bad situation, their availability, stopping power, and related common misconceptions.

3. To demonstrate a few easy to learn tricks which may help in various undesirable situations.

4. To demonstrate a few physical exercises that take little time, require no hardware, give you a good workout, are fun, and increase your self-defense capabilities.

Staying within the above topics, I'll try to be flexible and to tailor the workshop content to the requests of the audience.

Oleg Gleizer
Here is a short list of my credentials:

1. Moscow, Russia, 1984 lightweight boxing champ;
2. Underground Soviet NHB (No Holds Barred) record 6/6/6 (six
victories, six wins, six knockouts); a two page article about my
fights in a major Moscow tabloid "Moskovsky Komsomolets", called
"The Dirty Ring or a Mouthguard in the Throat'';
3. SSG (Staff Sergeant) of the Soviet Paratroop Storm Troops, similar
to the US Army Rangers;
4. Fought professionally in Muay Thai in the Netherlands while doing
the MS in Math at Utrecht University; another "Moskovsky Komsomolets"
publication about it, called "They Called Him Russian Rambo'';
5. Black belt first degree in tae-kwon-do;
6. Ph.D. in Math from Northeastern University of Boston, 2001.