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Re: Gun Defenses against a revolver
So how do you prevent your fingers getting blown off doing a revolver defence?? I’d be afraid to even attempt one if I knew my fingers could get blown off (I’m a professional musician)
Re: Keysi Fighting Method
quote Ryan:There are elements that are very good. Almost all of the entries are off of high covers (Dutch covers, helmet, crazy monkey, thinking man, whatever.) This is a great (and relatively instinctive) way to do things if there is no knife involved, which is of course the problem.I didn’t see any weapon work, but it is a part of the system. I am going to do a bit more with them, and I will be happy to report back here.
Could somebody please explain to me what are high covers, and specifically those mentioned here?
How are they utilized in a fight? What other “entries” are there? And how is this affected by the presence of a knife?
Re: bruised knuckles
I’ll add my question in this post, since it’s on a similar topic to mine:
I had my first KM class on Thursday, and while working the tombstone pads (punch shield) I grazed the skin on my middle knuckle on both hands. Now it doesn’t hurt too much or anything, but being a musician I don’t want to hurt my hands.
My question is, how can I get it to heal as fast as possible (I’ve been putting on some healing cream from Vaseline company, as well as some petroleum jelly) and how can I prevent it happening in the future. We hit the pads without gloves or wraps or anything.
So will my skin there toughen and it won’t happen again, or what? I have another class on Monday (in two days) and I don’t want to open it up again (it wasn’t bleeding) and am considering either reducing the power I put in my punches (my punches felt pretty weak anyway, I was so tired) or using palm strikes (but I am afraid of maybe hurting my wrists).
At the moment (two days after the class) I basically have two bright red spots on my knuckles, and it stings a little to touch them.
Re: Real Life Gun Scenario – help!!
I have worked out a model for the optimal way for a person to run away from a gun, especially if it’s in an open field or other open area with no cover. If anybody is interested I can post it with full explanation in a separate thread. I think this might well be the very first model of how to run away from a gun!
I would be very interested in trying this out with a paintball gun, and scientifically settling once and for all the odds of a relatively fit person running away from a gun. I have worked out a method for testing that too, and if anybody has the resources, I’d be very grateful. Maybe it could be broadcast on YouTube too.
Of course running away from a gun is a worst case scenario, but if you need to run away from somebody who’s trying to murder you, it’s something worth giving a shot (excuse the pun).
Re: Real Life Gun Scenario – help!!
Ok yeah that makes sense. And what if they are firing randomly in your direction? Does the zig zag then make it better or worse? Isn’t it better to run further away (i.e. in a straightish line)?
And what about running with your head bent over a bit? Good idea isn’t it?
Re: Real Life Gun Scenario – help!!
This is interesting too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmzIc6ANjWI
Re: Real Life Gun Scenario – help!!
That’s a good idea to walk with the traffic facing you, I’ll remember that as much as possible. Remember, this happened in broad daylight, and possibly there were other people around. Sadly, it’s not always possible to walk with a friend because I don’t have any friends in the area and it wouldn’t help anyway as the first time he was robbed he was with like 3 friends! These guys attack in groups.
As it is I don’t dress flashy, I don’t even wear a watch, or any jewellery or anything. I guess the best chance to run is actually as soon as you realize that somebody is coming after you in their car, even before they pull the gun out on you. I’m pretty sharp but it is still possible to get caught by surprise. And if you’re too worried about the cars on the road, you might completely overlook some guy on the street who’s approaching you!
Re the zig zag, that would only really work against somebody with a good aim surely. Because let’s say that a person with a bad aim is going to shoot in a general area around where you are. If you are zig zagging and he has a bad aim, he might actually be MORE likely to be hit because you have moved off into his “miss” area. That is my idea anyway. I don’t actually have any idea on the shooting skills of these guys. I think one can safely assume that they practise and have a good aim.
My question is, how fast is the human response to somebody taking flight if you point a gun at them, how long would it take them to aim and fire, and how far away can you be by then?
My calculations, based on experience say that it could take as long as a second before they notice that you’re running (I had my bicycle stolen from in front of me, I was READY for the guy to flee and to catch him, and it really took me a while to get going still). Then maybe half a second for him to aim the gun and another half a second to press the trigger. So that’s like 2 seconds.
It will take you about half a second to start running (by kicking your leg out in the opposite direction I think is one of the best ways to get a standing start, and it also gives the impression that you will run in the opposite direction that you intend) so you have basically one and a half seconds to get as far away and at as awkward as possible angle.
How about running and keeping your head down? Trying to keep a low profile while running?
I’d really like some more advice on how to get a good running start, and also if somebody could get statistics on probability of kidnapping in South Africa.
Here is what I managed to get:
http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/CrimeQ/No.14/Pharoah.htm
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2081664,00.html
http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2007/april_sept2007/crime_report20062007.pdf
http://www.sabcnews.com/south_africa/crime1justice/0,2172,172178,00.htmlI found a website with some personal anecdotes of crime in my city, and apparently one woman was mugged in the main road of the centre of the city by 4 men with knives, people witnessed it and did nothing.
Re: Bear hugs
Why do you end up on the ground? Your attacker ends up on the ground, you have an option to run in the opposite direction or whatever you want.
CLFMak please explain the transition to kneebar. It sounds logical but I can’t quite work out exactly how one would go about doing it.
FYI our follow-up once they are on the ground is to swivel around 180 degrees on the leg which is not between their legs (for a reason that soon will be clear!) then punch them in the face and then knee them in the groin with the leg that remained between their legs.
I used it against a guy who was much bigger than me, and he dropped like a stone. Also the smallest girl in our class, who’s around 5’2″ and probably weighs like 110 pounds could drop the biggest guy without any effort.
I guess that a good counter to the move (although you’d have to be very alert to the move and also very quick thinking) would be that as they step their leg out you step your leg out too, or you try kick them in the groin. However there really isn’t much time for the second option as you are supposed to put your leg out and grab their leg pretty much simultaneously.
Re: Bear hugs
Easiest method I learned was step your foot out to the outside of your opponent so that his leg is between your legs, drop your weight and thrust your hips backwards into him, then reach down, grab his leg and pull it up using only your hands, causing him to fall down nastily. It’s really quick and effective.
Re: Training with multiple partners
When training with multiple partners, it is always important to remember to use protection :D:
Re: My problem with European Krav Maga
Kevin, it’s the same reason why Superman wears his underwear on the outside of his pants. Go figure…
Re: commando krav maga
Cottonwood, is the gobbledygook you wrote at the top of your logo actually supposed to mean something? Or did you just write some Hebrew there so that it looks “cool”? I read Hebrew and it just looks amusing to me, something like if you had to write “weroidskfjsklfjw”
Re: Defense to pushing for a smaller fighter
A thing we learnt in our class is to push up on their hands at the elbows. It miraculously lifts their arms off you, with almost no effort at all. It completely neutralizes their pushing power. You could push their arms up with this and then drive forward into them, or just stand there in a stalemate.
