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Yeah, my mom is a nurse who lifts old heavy people around all day long. She has freakish grip strength. Those are a helluva pair of claws to get around your throat.
Last I checked, KM wasn’t also called the secret ninja dragon death touch system. Does anyone actually think cops and military personnel are being taught the triple-digit exploding heart technique? It’s just a matter of different objectives. Cops need to control their suspects, soldiers need to kill their enemies and civilians need to survive, neutralize and escape. You may need to use different methods to achieve each of those goals, but I think we can all agree KM is not about anything but common sense techniques, right?
I have a question, which I hope won’t be taken as an attack of any kind, but rather as mere curiosity. I read a while back on the forums that the name Krav Maga is trademarked/copyrighted/whatever in Mexico as well, is that true?
I’ve read about a lot of complaints from troops that the 5.56mm cartridge is inadequate as far as stopping power is concerned.
Can’t learn very much if you have to take a month’s break to recover from every injury from full contact during training. If you want full contact, find a full contact sport or start a bareknuckle fight club. KM is about learning realistic self defense, not to get seriously injured in training.
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quote \”Moshe Tzur\:what ever people say without the hard work of Derren Levin and his team at LA Krav Maga was a small club at Netanya and thanks to them today its all known all over and its the best for IMI memory so what more good than that ???
So please let have a nice year with No politics and respect to all !!I’m completely sure that without Darren and the KMAA people, Krav Maga would not have been as succesful as it is today in the US. However, the IKMF is responsible for the spread of KM in Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. Why feel the need to undermine the outstanding work the IKMF has performed under Eyal and many other great instructors?
From the book \”How to defend yourself against armed assault\” co-authored by Imi and Eyal:
\”Eyal Yanilov studied Krav Maga under the personal tutelage of its founder, Imi Sde-Or (Lichtenfeld), and served as the Grandmaster’s closest assistant and foremost disciple since the early 1980s. Active in this field since 1973, he is now its most senior instructor. Mr. Yanilov is the only individual who holds the highest rank ever given by Imi (Master level 3/Expert level 8), as well as the unique \”Founder’s Diploma of Excellence,\” which is hels only by Mr. Yanilov and Mr. Darren Levine of the United States.
Eyal Yanilov started his Krav Maga training with Mr. Eli Avikzar (one of Imi’s top students) and soon afterwards began to study directly under the founder himself. At an early age, Eyal was instructing at the training studio in Netanya that Imi had entrusted to Eli Avikzar, and on many occasions assisted and substituted for the Grandmaster in lessons and preparations with students who were to be tested for grades of expert level. At a later stage, when Imi appointed him Head of the Krav Maga Professional Committee, Eyal was responsible for preparing and updating the Krav Maga curriculum. In this capacity Eyal had the task of imparting the new developments and accumulated knowledge, changes in techniques, and the latest training methods to he other senior instructors.
In 1984 Grandmaster Imi Sde-Or placed Eyal in charge of preparing the complete and comprehensive series of books on the Krav Maga discipline (of which this volume is a part). Since then, and until the system’s founder passed away in 1998, the two were deeply engrossed in the task of writing down the principles of Krav Maga and clarifying its various techniques.
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Mr. Yanilov is currently serving as Chairman and Chief Instructor of the IKMF, and heads the International School of Krav Maga. In this capacity, he is in charge of the development, definition, and dissemination of the system worldwide.\”
Personally, I don’t mind if you bring up the pros and cons of techniques taught by others, but that wasn’t even what the whole post was about. If you’re going to question the validity of the organizations or their actions, why do it here? Why not write letters to the different associations? Or call? Or go there in person? Why a message board that’s supposed to be for discussing the actual content?
Joe, if you had been to the older message boards, you would’ve seen the amount of political postings like this that quite frankly became a nuisance and disrupted the whole meaning of the message boards, which was from the beginning to discuss Krav Maga constructively. That would include, for example, discussion about technique, real life encounters, hypothetical scenarios etc.
I do not see how posts like this have any relevance, and frankly if you had known how bad the problem got on the old message boards, you wouldn’t be surprised at all to find posts about Moni Aizik, David Kahn or any other \”alternative\” KM instructor removed. This is the message board of the KMAA. I respect the fact that here, they don’t mind removing posts that have no constructive purposes. At least that way we don’t have to sift through pages of BS trying to find honest threads about Krav Maga.
It’s funny how usually one of the first things you see on a KM thread is the \”kicking a gun out of someone’s hand? omg wtf mcdojo\” thing 😀
