Krav Maga

[phillyman]

Hey anyone out there taking Krav Maga is so tell me what you think about it. Can you give me a general description.

[Shimora]

It is indeed a worthwhile system of self defense. I consider it to be Kosher Ninjutsu. I found an excellent article on Krav Maga vs BJJ at http://www.geocities.com/kravmagagolem/bjj.html

Krav Maga Beats Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

I had spent years trying traditional martial arts.I was looking for more. I attended a Krav Maga seminar a couple of years back and was blown away at the effectiveness and simplicity of the system.
At the end of the Two day seminar, guys that had never done martial arts in their lives were kicking my TKD Black Belt ass! That was all I needed to see, I started to devour any info I could on the system. Books, Magazine articles, Video Tapes you name it. I talked a friend into training with me and between our tapes, sparring and attending as many seminars as we could we became very adept at the system.

At the last seminar we met a guy named Pedro, he said he was a BJJ Blue Belt. He was interested in what he had seen in the seminar so we invited him around for one of our garage Krav Maga nights.

When he turned up he said he wanted to lightly spar with us so we could see how good we all were. We agreed.

My friend went first and they were sizing each other up, my friend threw a couple of jabs and Pedro was throwing this funny front thrust kick at my friends knee. It wasnt very effective. Then Pedro shot in for a takedown and my friend just grabbed his head by the chin and the forehead and twisted his neck around spiralling Pedro onto the ground but with good control on one of Pedro's arms. My friend then simulated two stomps to Pedros head to let him know he won the fight.

Then Pedro sparred with me,when we were clinching I got a rear leg takedown on him as I locked up his arm with a s pattern wrap around his arm. I simulated a stomp to his throat to show I won the fight. We sparred again and this time as he shot in I grabbed his left wrist and ducked under his armpit, pulling his wrist and throwing him onto the ground. Again I pretended I stomped his head to show him I won.

Then he insisted on attacking us with a training knife to see if he could stab or slash us. The results looked very much like these pictures of Krav Maga vs a knife attack.
He was duly impressed and says he is quitting his BJJ class to concentrate on Krav Maga. Wise move in my opinion.

[Szczepankiewicz]

Damn! That article is amazing. And to think we are all being misled and bamboozled with all this GJJ Flummary!!

Thanks Shimora!

SZ