10th dan
In Dennis Survival jujitsu. Decades of learning, practice and teaching.
Ran Steinberg
Your coach
has a teacher, too.
Ran followed his brother to Dr. Dennis Hanover, the founder of the system, when he was about six. He stayed because of the person he met. After years of training and teaching, he still comes to learn from him.
10th dan · Dennis SurvivalInstructor training · 1990
Meet the person behind the experience
Getting to know the person who comes to train
The same craft.
A different person, every time.
Ran loves the training itself: the learning, the effort and the moment something clicks. He also knows that people walk into the training hall with different things on their minds.
A child is looking forward to the games and friends. A parent wants to know what happens when things get hard. Someone is returning after years away; someone else wants to study technique in greater depth. Teaching starts with getting to know the person.
When Ran became a father, he began devoting more of his work to children. He felt he understood both them and their parents differently. Today, that understanding informs his teaching alongside his professional experience.
During training, he explains, demonstrates, supervises and adjusts the practice. There is contact and challenge, and room to talk about a limitation, a concern or a movement that isn't working yet.
Years later, a wedding invitation.
Ran helped a student get started in martial arts. Later, he referred him to another training program where he could keep developing. They stayed in touch. When the student got married, he wanted Ran there with him.
Ran says he learned from this student, too—about perseverance and keeping going when things get hard. He describes the wedding invitation simply as “one of the most beautiful things.”
Still learning from Dennis
His teacher. His friends.
And more to learn.
These are the reasons Ran keeps training with Dennis: to improve as a student and instructor, spend time with people he cares about and see the teacher he still learns from.
The lesson started on the bus.
As a child, Ran took the bus to training. He remembers how important it was to Dennis that he give up his seat when an older person got on. That was part of what Dennis taught him, too.
Today, when Ran talks about respect, he returns to things you can do: arrive ready to train, be considerate of your training partner and notice the people around you. What you learn on the mat matters on the way home, too.
Volunteering with Holocaust survivors · Amcha, Holon
Celebrating together.
Staying in touch.
Ran has volunteered for years at Amcha, a community club for Holocaust survivors in Holon. The visits, music, food and gifts have become a regular part of his life.
Together with Sharona Monk, students and friends from Dennis Survival, he comes to celebrate and spend time with people they've come to know. Sometimes Ran handles the music and organizing. Sometimes they simply sit, talk and enjoy being together.
The giving goes both ways. Ran talks about the love of life he encounters there and what he keeps learning from the people he meets. For him, volunteering is also about staying connected to people he's glad to see again.
The experience Ran brings to your training
The experience behind
the way he teaches.
Alongside group and private training, Ran leads seminars and training sessions in Israel and abroad. Teaching different audiences informs his regular sessions, too: the way he explains, demonstrates and adjusts his teaching to the person in front of him.
Partnerships to fund training
Funding can open
the door to training.
Ran wants to expand access to training for soldiers, people living with physical or psychological injuries, survivors of the Nova festival attack and children on the autism spectrum. The aim is to work with nonprofits and other organizations that can fund the instruction, allowing participants to train at no cost.
Each person has different reasons for coming and different training needs. Ran has already held sessions funded by a nonprofit. He is now looking to develop more partnerships, with the format and accommodations planned around the people taking part.
Could this training be right for you?
Talk with Ran about whether the training is a good fit and whether funding may be available through a partner organization. To start, it's enough to say what interests you. Personal details can wait until you talk.
Ask about training and funding optionsCould you help make it possible?
Nonprofits and other organizations are invited to plan funded training with Ran: who it's for, what accommodations are needed, and how the program and budget would work.
Talk about funding trainingThis is an invitation to explore and develop options. Training at no cost depends on a sponsoring organization and an arrangement agreed on in advance. Ran teaches martial arts; he is not a medical or mental health practitioner.
Let’s talk
Your first session starts with a short conversation.
What would you like to learn? What fits into your week? Ran will help you choose the right training and arrange a trial session.
Talk with Ran Or call 054-450-2060