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Re: Real Life Gun Defense! (News story & video)

This video works for me, plus @1:03 you see the decrepit old white haired guy run up for his chance at the bad guy, and slo-mo at the end:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/bulgaria/9814141/Bulgarian-would-be-assassin-thought-he-would-be-killed-during-attack.html

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Re: Real Life Gun Defense! (News story & video)

But on the CNN version you don’t see the decrepit old white-haired guy running up to whack him with his umbrella and kick him in the head! That was priceless!

I wondered about training because if he’s right-handed he did that with his non-dominant hand, plus he pushed the gun away from other people. Then he went on the attack right away. I was impressed.

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Re: Tragedy, friends son murdered.

Machete was the weapon of choice for an MS-13 group near here. They hacked off the hands of a 15-year-old about half a mile from my house a few years ago. Nasty creatures.

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Re: Most challenging Level 1 techniques to teach/Phase A

quote mattp:

This is awesome . Thanks. Yeah, the headlock I can see being the most challenging as to your point there is a few things to really piece together. Probably the biggest thing right now in the mock teachings is doing it in front of your peers ….a little nerve racking at first. I am sure over time I will develop my own style of delivery. Thanks again to everyone for the tips and advice. This is what I was hoping for.

Matt

From the student perspective I would have guessed that too. All of its techniques are completely unrelated to the other skills learned in L1. You don’t even address the threat first thing, you address not winding up on the floor. Then there’s no clinch, no knees, and the groin gets swatted instead of kicked. Your imaginary class wouldn’t need to be reminded of many other techniques but you also wouldn’t have any building blocks in place. OTOH if you’re assuming your class has no previous krav experience it would be a good technique to demo. It’s a terrifying & common attack so you get to take people from complete vulnerability to being prepared for a very real scenario. And if you don’t get through to them it’s very obvious because you can see the keesters falling on the floor. :p

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Re: Defense against being shot with an oxygen tank

Pull the cord and a 16-ton weight will fall down on the bad guy.

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Re: Karate lesson video! (knife defence)

hahaha I used to watch that show and I didn’t remember any of that! Hilarious! Thanks for the link! 😀

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Re: Hitting women

quote KMMAN:

This is an important distinction. I am of the opinion you always hit full force when using pads …unloess instructors says start off less than 100% for technique or whatever. I think BRADM was referring to hitting full force when NOT using pads, maybe working on SD techniques.

Someone correct me if Im wrong.

Full force = as much as your partner can handle. You can get hurt holding the pad for someone too strong for you. Myself, there have been a few instances where my injury-weakend wrist gave out while holding the pad for a crotch kick, and that led to further (minor) injury on that wrist. Once the damage had been done I couldn’t hold the pad for my partner even when he went easier on his kicks and my wrist was swollen for three days.

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Re: Hitting women

As a woman here’s my two cents: we should all feel comfortable enough in class to be able to ask to switch partners for whatever reason. If you don’t feel you have the self-control to do your drill without hurting your partner, imho you’re obligated to ask for a switch.

As for getting used to hitting women, in your case it’s probably not something you will come up against much. For smaller men, a badass woman might indeed take him on. My one use of krav was against a woman, and a female security guard at work had her nose broken by a woman. Would these women also go after a man? I bet if they thought they could “take him” they would. If you men think of us as all delicate flowers who need to be protected, you might be unpleasantly surprised one day. Check out the stats in this article:

http://www.blackbeltmag.com/archives/144

quote :

When the fight took place between a man and a woman,
ï 46 percent involved women attacking men
ï 45 percent of female-onmale attacks were successful.

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Re: Unusual gun disarms

The “gangsta” grip comes to mind. It seems like it would be a stupid grip for someone to actually shoot with but if it’s in movies & music videos it must be the best way to threaten someone right?

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Re: Best Intro Class?

quote KravmanianDevil:

Brent I am actually a new licensee and do have the lecture you speak of. I have talked to several instructors at different locations and they all seem to do it a bit differently. Some show some upper level material and then take it away from the students. Some show a variety of the combatives and others just stick with a few. Personally I tend to be philosophical and like to put everything in context but at the same time I don’t want to talk to much and suck all the energy out of the room. I am trying to figure out how to strike the perfect balance. Throw them a tease, show them the intensity of Krav without killing them and have them leaving craving more.

Thanks everyone for the input. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Some of my friends took an intro class and decided against signing on because of the cost. I wish they’d learned wrist releases, because that’s something you can learn in one class and it’s one technique that they can teach others afterward. It’s practical, doesn’t take a lot of practice, and shows that you don’t necessarily have to be physically strong to protect yourself with this system.

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Re: What do you do in real life?

Librarian. You’d think it would be the safest job in the world. Sadly, it’s not.

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Re: Krav and JiuJitsu?

quote unstpabl1:

Wow:confused: If that makes you feel safer at night, so be it

Well I am taking krav ya know. :chair: My school doesn’t have one set of techniques for drunks, morons & ineffectual perverts and another set for recently released prisoners who built up musles, honed their fighting skills and worked out their fantasies while they were locked up. It’s all one thing, which is good, since there typically isn’t enough time to interview the bad guy to ask him what his skill level is. :p

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Re: Krav and JiuJitsu?

quote La Revancha:

As mentioned, I think it’s typically NOT the case that BJJ students are out causing havoc in society, but cases of outliers are documented. They may not be out “bangin” but it has happened.

ADCC Qualifier Cameron Earle’s problems with the law.
http://www.subfighter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=39390

Ryan Gracie’s sad and tragic running amok in Brazil.
http://www.mmatko.com/ryan-gracie-found-dead-in-jail-cell-after-wild-day/

TUF contestant Rob Emerson doing a stint in jail for his part in beating up some kids in OC (he was thrown in jail AGAIN last year).
http://www.cagepotato.com/2008/01/08/if-youre-looking-for-someone-to-root-against-during-the-ufc-81-undercard/

These weirdos give BJJ folks a bad name. >:(

…then there are creeps like this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020701182.html

I would love to hear the blow-by-blow details of some of these attacks (one of which was at my bus stop!) and how the women fought him off. Obviously the guy is a freaking moron, as evidenced by this charming quote:

quote :

Foltz told a judge that he did not understand the abduction charge because “all I did was tackle her.”

So even without training, the typical (?) street attacker isn’t that hard to defend against (though some women were traumatized to a greater degree than others).

Your class was a great intro, but I don’t feel confident about taking on a BJJ pro gone bad. My plan in that case is to tap out and then rip his eyeballs out if he lets go. Hey, it couldn’t hurt to try!

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Re: My first KM class – a report

LOL @ being a wide load. Just remember you also have an edge because krav teaches you to use your weight to best advantage!

Even at my best I still had trouble keeping up with warm-ups but I did get warmed up and that’s the important thing. If there’s something you just can’t do, ask the teacher for a version that gives the same muscles a stretch before class. You don’t need a muscle sprain or tear just when you’re getting into shape!

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Re: Women’s self-defense class update

Just compare the way the men talk on this forum to the way the women who talk to you about krav talk! For some men KM is a macho fighting sport, which is intimidating. I was pretty strongly socialized against fighting as a child even though I wrestled with my brothers. In the beginning, using my fists made me giggle because until krav I’d never ever hit anything or anyone with my fists. How many males can say that?

The kinds of scenarios we worry about are different, too. I’m not worried about the bully at the local bar. I’m more worried about this guy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020701182.html?hpid=moreheadlines

(YAY! he got caught finally!) How many men worry about being groped (or worse)?

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