Steve A. Kovacs
Author of the Protect Yourself series.
Get to know Steve . . .
Steve was almost killed by a criminal when he was eight which he explains in detail in his best seller, ‘Protect Your Kids! The Simple Keys to Children’s Safety and Survival’. Shortly thereafter, Steve started in the martial arts, training in Judo. At the age of 22, Steve became a police officer spending many years in law enforcement, not only as an officer, but also as a police training supervisor. He was SWAT trained by the FBI, FBI Hostage Rescue Team, and the LAPD. He is the recipient of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation award for Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity. Steve is also a graduate of The Police Executive Leadership College.
Steve was the General Manager for a National Investigative and Security company servicing individuals and Fortune 100 companies and later, owned an investigation company where he investigated and supervised a variety of cases including under cover operations, homicides, suicides, missing persons and background checks for attorneys and businesses. Steve was also an award winning adjunct (part-time) criminal justice professor for nine years.
Steve is the Soke of a martial art called Minna Jiu-Jitsu that his father founded over 60 years ago. Steve’s trained in Judo, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, Minna Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing, and Shorin Ryu Karate. In addition to almost being killed as a child, Steve was a survivor of two other violent criminal acts before he became a police officer. Steve calls these life experiences and then his training, as the development of a ‘perfect storm’ for gaining his expertise in helping others protect themselves.
Conversely, for seven years, Steve was the host of a popular interview talk-show podcast and streaming program called The Kovacs Perspective where he interviewed authors and experts from around the world.
Steve has published two books and an investigative e-book called ‘The Solved Case of the Real Lake Erie Monster’ which focuses and solves the hundreds of years old mystery of Lake Erie’s version of the Loch Ness Monster.
Steve loves the outdoors and animals of all kinds and spends much of his leisure time involved with both.
Presently, Steve is the owner of The Mayfield Academy of Self-Defense in Ohio.
Books by Steve Kovacs
Articles by Steve Kovacs
For many years Steve wrote articles on several sites on a wide variety of subjects and for a time was a current events columnist with ‘This and That with Kovacs’. Steve now writes exclusively for his own blog, Simple Keys. He discusses many topics on the Simple Keys in addition to articles on personal safety, security and self protection.
Contact Steve about seminars, training or books–440-564-7886
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For years, Steve produced and taught safety and security seminars on how to survive active shootings and other forms of mass attacks. Much of this training utilizes live fire (blanks) surprise attacks (like the photo to the left from a seminar) and actors portraying wounded victims wearing blood and wound makeup. The training is as real as it can get and focuses on how not to freeze during these horiffic attacks and strategies to survive them.