Krav Maga: Anyone here practice it?

[APC]

(copied from a post i did on another forum, feel free to ask me any questions about training)

 

 

 

Krav is good at building up aggression and stamina in quite a short time. It can make some people over-confident though I reckon, as the marketing behind it makes it look like you'll be an urban commando within a few lessons. If you can see beyond that then you'll be fine. I would heartily recommend it. It trains scenario based stuff and knives, bats, guns. No matter how many times I have practiced the defenses for these, I still feel like I would poo myself when confronted with them. I have seen some people train who are total rubbish who either can't or won't improve their incredibly sloppy defense, but seem massively confident that they can "handle themselves" amongst a combination of multiple attackers with weapons. Like F*£k. 95% of the people at my place though are balanced individuals who train hard and aren't cocky like that. It's just the odd one.

 

If I lived in a city or town and had the time, I would like to judo and muay thai. Possibly boxing instead of muay thai, but would prefer the kicking/knees/elbows. Boxing is usually cheap as chips which is obviously good for the wallet, as is judo. Muay Thai is fashionable right now so attracts a premium, also a lot of what is taught is not Muay Thai, apparently. This means you need to look for recommendations for the club you are thinking of joining. Good indicators could be a decent competition history. Does the place churn out winners? MMA places are in vogue at the moment too, so there's probably a lot of **** places (as well as loads of top-notch clubs), so tread careful if you fancied that, and expect to pay through the nose.

 

There are plenty of "reality based self defense" (rbsd) classes, of which Krav is one of them. A lot of these are utter poo. With Krav, look for IKMF, Krav Maga Global (this is a branch off from KMG, very political, no difference in practice from IKMF except higher level instructors have been instructed themselves more often than IKMF, or something like that). Avoid "Commando Krav Maga" and anything associated with Moni Aizik. This is all based on lies and (proven) false claims about the founder, Moni (e.g. claiming to be ex special forces, swat team and more). You can buy yourself instructor level for a few grand. Other than that, apparently Tony Blauer SPEAR System is good, although I know nothing about it myself.

 

If you can get yourself a nice mix of striking and grappling, and get the chance to spar you'll be fine. The only other thing I would suggest is avoiding shitholes and knowing when to turn and leg it, to avoid fighting.

[APC]

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This is one of the better Krav vids on Youtube. Alain Cohen is from a different federation to mine but he seems pretty damn good.

[toprotter]

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Originally Posted by apbell View Post

Savate , French kickboxing for me .

 

I used to do/train 'savate' with a bloke called "phil" at guildford uni in the early 90's

he used to wear a cig burnt shell suit and sink 5 pints of cider after training with 20 smokes. He then disappeared and "rossi" took over (Martin Ross) who trained at the spectrum sports centre and moved the sport in this country on,back then no-one knew what it was but it seems to have taken off now

Going back to it next week new venue to get a beating lol and to keep flexible.

Back in the 90's I was asked to fight for England sounds grand but there were only a few doing it then ,lucky if they will let me sweep the floor now.

 

Most important thing with all that fighting malarky is being able to take a punch unless you've got really sticky fingers

[White Noise]

Quote:

Originally Posted by apbell View Post

Savate , French kickboxing for me .

 

I used to do/train 'savate' with a bloke called "phil" at guildford uni in the early 90's

he used to wear a cig burnt shell suit and sink 5 pints of cider after training with 20 smokes. He then disappeared and "rossi" took over (Martin Ross) who trained at the spectrum sports centre and moved the sport in this country on,back then no-one knew what it was but it seems to have taken off now

Going back to it next week new venue to get a beating lol and to keep flexible.

Back in the 90's I was asked to fight for England sounds grand but there were only a few doing it then ,lucky if they will let me sweep the floor now.

 

Most important thing with all that fighting malarky is being able to take a punch unless you've got really sticky fingers

 

Aye it was back in 1991 when I first had a dabble . The club was nr winchester as I was based there in the Army / RGJ . I still have a sparring session now and again with friends

[Lorry thompson]

I think I'd be the same learn as much as I can but could still pap myself:blushing: the fights I've had in the past (I've never started any) sometimes I've done well and sometimes really bad, it's got to be frame of mind I reckon. In an ideal world you would do what you imagine but it doesn't always happen. If a big lad started on me I'd like to think I'd kick him in the knee cap like daltons mate mentioned in road house haha showing a bit of age now

[White Noise]

I think I'd be the same learn as much as I can but could still pap myself:blushing: the fights I've had in the past (I've never started any) sometimes I've done well and sometimes really bad, it's got to be frame of mind I reckon. In an ideal world you would do what you imagine but it doesn't always happen. If a big lad started on me I'd like to think I'd kick him in the knee cap like daltons mate mentioned in road house haha showing a bit of age now

 

ha ha ha daltons mate now that was mean facial hair

 

Frame of mind hit the nail on the head there:biggrin:

 

Alot of people get side tracked thinking well if I do this he might do that . In reality you need only be concerned about doing your thing. Come what may .

[Lorry thompson]

ha ha ha daltons mate now that was mean facial hair

 

Frame of mind hit the nail on the head there:biggrin:

 

Alot of people get side tracked thinking well if I do this he might do that . In reality you need only be concerned about doing your thing. Come what may .

 

Exactly mate was a lad moved in my town who was a boxer and meant to be really dangerous he started on me because I was the little lad and for once I was switched on and thought well I can't fight so I'd just watched 28 days later night before and saw that lad poke his thumbs in that lads eyes and I copied it when everybody was pulling me off I knew he'd box me so I twisted his nuts! He's a good friend of mine now haha and to be fair to him he said to everyone I respect that lad everyone kisses my arse and that little lad has some bottle for doing that me haha it shows what my dad says is true bullies want to beat someone up who will stand there like a boxing bag but if you give them a black eye even if you lose you still marked them and if you poke them in the eye or bite them they won't fancy another go haha glad I don't have a link to my company site on here

[APC]

Been checking out some Kali vids on youtube. Looks pretty good actually. I reckon it's gonna be the fashionable martial art within the next 2-3 years.

[Mark Bolam]

Been checking out some Kylie vids on youtube. Looks pretty good actually. I reckon it's gonna be the fashionable martial art within the next 2-3 years.

 

Agreed. Excellent for building wrist strength.

[Robert_S]

Agreed. Excellent for building wrist strength.

 

ironically mark kali is derived from a weapons based art using stick and knife so yes kali ( or eskrima) really does build your wrist strength....