[blaine24]

Re: Why Krav?

Im new to Krav Maga, only been doing for 3 weeks now, but, the reason I chose is was after 3 years of Wing Chun, I just felt I couldn’t defend myself at all.

Don’t get me wrong, Wing Chun is an amazing system, however, for me, it wasn’t what I was looking for, there’s a lot of theory behind the moves, their very precise and take (for me anyway) a long time to get down, and I didn’t feel we were doing enough pressure testing or reality training.

Now after 3 weeks of Krav Maga, my confidence has started to come back, as its constant pressure, getting hit, plus knife and ground work, its exactly what I have been looking for, and one thing I have realised is that a certian amount of fitness is required to survive a fight that lasts longer than it should, after say, 30 seconds of constant punching, its surprising how it wears you down.

But the good thing is, the principles arn’t so different from Wing Chun, like relaxation, deflection rather than hard blocking, both attack and defence at same time, just different the way their applied, rather than ‘traditional’ martial art methods.

So yeah, loving Krav Maga, hope I can stick at it and explore it deeper in time.

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