What exactly is Krav Maga?
Serious martial arts for close combat, none of that sissy breaking boards, katas and "forms".
Level 1 learn basics like how to deliver knees to the groin, kicks, hammerfists, elbows, punches, defenses and how to escape from choke holds. Level 2, better fighting skills, ground work, more kicks and defenses. Good schools teach combatives and highly encourage threading together lots of brutal, sadistic pain on your opponent.
Excellent work out, simple, highly effective and downright evil fighting techniques. I have seen weak women, both physically and easily intimidated walk away after earning their first belt with great confidence to be able to deal with thugs who want to hurt them or make them dead.
The place I train also teaches the local PD, gun and knife techniques. They also emphasize stress situations and dealing with more than one hostile. Occasionally train outdoors on uneven ground. One night we even trained in a bar because that is where fights often break out. The women have specialized training so they can fight in office and party attire. Why? Because rarely does one have to fight for their life in a well lit and padded room. Everything a man or woman needs to know to survive the 21st century with or without a gun.
I know many people who have their blacks in traditional martial arts and I am not impressed. The few I know that have theirs in KM suffered broken ribs, sprains and one guy broke his eardrum getting his.
I have a 2nd black in Aikido, compared to KM? worthless because skills are perishable, not so much with KM. KM rocks in the real world.
Thanks for the info. It definitely sounds like a useful set of skills to have (especially as our civilization declines).
I learnt Krav Maga years ago and 2007-2010 was studying Jeet-kune-do. Now I want to take that and add in this experience and relearn KM