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Blog postThe original Israel Defense Forces Krav Maga was teaching only 3 techniques of pistol defense. Front center body from a distance front when barrel is pressed to the body, and from the rear center body. It later added from side center body. Later, other instructors added varieties of heights and angles and tried to use the same original techniques or other techniques! To succeed against a realistic scenario you needed to train with realistic intent and training device to mimic the ultima
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Blog postThe thought in Krav Maga is that when a person grabs you, the immediate danger is that they might pull or push you using it, either hit you with a head butt or a knee kick, or throw you on the floor or throw your head on the wall. They can also grab you to prevent your escape from a knife stab! This is why most of the techniques selected for drilling in the grappling section are the ones that respond to this immediate threat.
As for the immediate hit counter atta -
Blog postImmi Sde Or (Lichtenfeld) -Extensive training in Circus, Jujitsu, Boxing, Fairbairn Knife, Bayonet and Pistol Tactics, British Military Disciplines, and he extracted the Circus out of all realizing the essence of hand to hand combat lies in the split second engagement and must be universal. “I don’t want to fight said Immi – the moment you get rid of your opponent you do not need to fight!".
If someone comes to kill you, rise and kill him first – If you think someone has the i -
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Blog postProduct quality decline in Hand to Hand Combat.
I chose to write on hand to hand combat because it is a training system designed to use for last resort self defense when there are no other options whether to the military, police or civilians.
With modern library systems whether tangible or virtual one can search tons of information and use his or her logic to figure things out for his or her best interests.
It seems that historically there was rise -
Blog postThe Pure Krav Maga Videos help you visualize and mimic a classroom instruction and retake it as many times and you need.
The book Krav Maga - Use Your Body as a Weapon is a complete Technical Manual to the System.
However the book The Krav Maga Expert forces your brain to think and sort it through to the last detail and bring your mind to peace out of struggle! Many students still struggle with understanding the simple components of the system that are so many making the -
Blog postIf you would take every technique, tactic, and training drill, ever created by any martial art and fighting sport, analyze it, sort it out, eliminate doubles, exclude the irrelevant, and put it in the hierarchy of prioritization under the human reaction time limit, for the purpose of hand to hand combat facilitating the optimization of self defense to every one possible, you would be left with the ballpark of the two hundred techniques and tactics and training drills covered in the twenty one ho
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Blog postAs for H2H Combat, with my unique experience, I can tell you that with most Martial Arts and Civilian Krav Maga alike and the varieties of H2H out there, you need to first pause and examine what you are going to be trained in. There are endless sales of techniques, and fitness training drills that don't conform to the human efficiency and reaction time limits and thus ill designed training programs are vast.
I can suggest doing some viewing on your own and you can even -
Blog postWhat do you expect as a student when you want to learn Self defense?
What do you expect as an Instructor when you want to teach self defense?
You better have a better plan than all the others or at least as good as the best plan out there to teach or to learn or both! Think what techniques you need, what tactics, how to learn and teach them intensively. Monitor your own learning by watching yourself executing the techniques and drills in sufficient speed. Test them ag -
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Blog postA good defensive counter technique is that that is successful in preventing an attempt from the opponent to reach your pressure points, and any follow up attempts. Naturally as the range closes in the chain of attack and defense, the move is from the kicking to punching and grappling range or vice versa from the grappling to the punching to the kicking range if the opponent retreats.
Using the knowledge of the limits of the human reaction time gives you a solid foundation to devise -
Blog postA tactical move that was taught in Civilian Krav Maga to lean the torso back against the jab and the follow up cross and come back and hook the cross down. However, I've extracted this technique out because it did not make any tactical sense! As in Pure Krav Maga you do not simply bombard with punches without seeing where the target is at any split second! Since you are dealing with counter to counter of the best tactical approach, you do not need to deal with all sorts of possibilities. <
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Blog postWhen in the kicking range in the Chain of Defense, you still must engage the attacker's attacking limb or weapon from the body position you were a split second before the entry to the hotzone. However, you also need to ready for a follow up attack in the shorter range. If the opponent decides to retreat, you need to follow up with a kick or a chase and attack.
You should have a tactical approach to counter anything efficient in the chain of defense and follow up with a counter atta -
Blog postI do not give belts! Civilian Krav Maga was giving belts and it was not Krav Maga. It lost its lethal elements! They did not teach everything when they broke it down to a belt curriculum, to keep students for 5 years black belt achievement with 2 lessons per week of which 3/4 was warm up and fitness.
Instead of giving students combat navigation and teaching them how to generate force with strikes and kicks and limiting the drills to the human reaction time, the spent a quarter -
Blog postUnderstanding the tactics is crucial for timing of techniques! Otherwise you end up throwing kicks, punches and grappling attempts in the wrong range, which make them irrelevant and non efficient!
Understanding the tactics should be the basis for the training drills! For example, if the sequence of Kicks and Strikes and Grappling does not correlate to the opening and closing the gap between the opponents, it can only cause more confusion and that could create a critical -
Blog postOnce you are aware of the Human Reaction time, you do not need a coach telling you when to attack or block. You sense it naturally that as you enter the hotzone you need to instantaneously attack and as your opponent enters the hotzone, you need to instantaneously block and counter attack!
The human reaction time role in Pure Krav Maga is making the student aware in the first few lessons after the introduction, the pressure points section, and the situational awareness section, thro -
Blog postWhen you have a training system that is documented and analyzed from all angles, you can be sure whether it is likely to work or not.
Out of approximately 170 Martial Arts out there, there is only one well documented! Its called Pure Krav Maga.
That should make you wonder that if it is documented and analyzed in comparison to all the other from all aspects of the matrix perhaps it is the most suitable training system for hand to hand combat which is what you need -
Blog postIs Krav Maga totally self learnable?
Well it’s much easier with an instructor telling you what to do and correcting you every minute of training. But the problem is that there are 170 Martial Arts out there including tons of civilian Krav Maga versions that are choreographed fitness and have a very slim chance to work in a split second confrontation. Their training is irrelevant to hand to hand combat and self defense, and whether you prevail or not in each scenario depends on your persona -
Blog postThe Krav Maga Expert Creates Brain Structures Analyzing any proposed Hand to Hand Combat and Self Defense Training System demonstrating the comprehensive elements of Pure Krav Maga – the Original Israel Defense Forces Krav Maga Distilled to Universal Systematic Tests!
-You will learn to prioritize the importance of the elements of any training system.
-You will learn to test the limits of the human reaction time and the relevancy of the training methods applicabl -
Blog post170 Martial Arts Styles out there! Each has a unique and favorite approach for either exhibition, acrobatics, fitness, sparring and resilience to pain. But when forced to mix and spar or pose self defense solution, they have to embrace some other chain of defense mechanism from the other arts.
Yet with the mentality of focusing on their traditional flavors, let’s say when a Jujitsu Master adding strikes for self defense training or for planning to enlist in MMA competiti -
Blog postThere are more than 170 Martial Arts. Most of them have a Grandmaster that studied few styles before becoming an originator of his system!
Each style has roots in tradition of the base core martial arts which either trains to use weapons, grappling, punching and kicking or all of the above.
Most of these Styles are taught over long training periods such of five to ten years in which combat fitness, and hundreds of techniques for each style are drilled in va -
Blog postIn Krav Maga the direct linear approach of front and side kicks is tactically the safest one to use as they are the most efficient ones from maximum distance and as you close the gap Hand Strikes including straight and circular attacks are more efficient in faster reach into the pressure points.
However, since the various martial arts had devised pressure points approach with feet from any angle and distance and people are learning it and trying it on their own, it was decided -
Blog postA demo reflects the knowledge of the responsible teacher of Self Defense and Hand to hand combat. Self Defense is the intention of one defending himself righteously. Hand to hand Combat is the need to Know How to be able to defend oneself against the unpredictable intent and skills of a possible attacker!
It’s no magic but all about the Human Body navigation of reach to pressure points controlling them first.
Unfortunately the comedian art of Hollywood baffl -
Blog postTHE THEORY OF HAND TO HAND COMBAT IS VERY SIMPLE! ITS APPLICATION HOWEVER IS A LITTLE COMPLEX!
1- CONTROL THE OPPONENT BY REACHING TO HIS PRESURE POINTS FIRST
2- DO NOT LET THE OPPONENT CONTROL YOUR PRESSURE POINTS BY BLOCKING OR ESCAPING HIS ATTEMPTS
3- ONCE IN THE HOTZONE WHERE AN ATTEMPT FROM EITHER SIDE WAS MADE TO REACH PRESSURE POINT FOLLOW UP WITH CONTINUED CONTROL THROUGH PRESSURE POINTS USING YOUR JUDGMENT IF POSSIBLE
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Blog postIn the above photos, Eli Avikzar with Boaz Aviram demonstrate Slash Defense vs. Cross! This technique was extracted out of the Pure Krav Maga Curriculum!
While attempting to utilize various body movement possibiities, knife slashing motion is a totally different attack with different follow up possibilities than boxing combinations! Its a nice drill trying your luck to catch the cross after the jab, but its not certain, and for self defense you need to distill only the certain -
Blog postOnce each attacker enters the hotzone in a demo, any split second that passes over the initial half a second amounts to entertainment and confusion for both students and instructors! The average Demo span in Martial Arts for each attack is about 7-21 Seconds...
Often, the sequences of the chain of events do not make sense from realistic point of view. If you kill your attacker in the first strike to a soft pressure point, it is very ha -
Blog post-Become an expert in self defense!
-This is the Real Sigma Black Belt Course You need in Life as Most Martial arts!
–It is recommended to anyone including professionals in Medicine, Law and any profession; it will teach you the insight of classifying objectives, and arriving at solutions of complex matters as life command you!
-While Self Defense is the preservations of any human’s inalienable rights it gives the one who possesses these true skills t
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