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Re: How would you teach your child Krav Maga

If you have to teach your daughter, like stated earlier, I would suggest you start with the hair pull and bear hug defenses and focus on proper technique on the punches and kicks. In most bullying situations, a well executed groin kick is all that will be needed to go home safely.

My son is 9 and has been doing Krav Maga for a little over a year. We are lucky that our Krav Maga Training center has a KM-X program (kids). He is now a gold belt and has learned a lot more techniques that I have at a level 2. He can defend all the chokes, bear hugs, hair pulls, head locks, etc…, in addition to all the 360 defenses, inside defenses, ground work, all the kicks, punches, hammer fists, etc… In other words, you can teach her all you know, but emphasize technique. I would also engrain in her that Krav is only used for self defense and not to use as a trick or for bullying. In our training center, once a week the instructor sits the kids down for approximately 10 minutes and they discuss use of force so they won’t abuse their skills with other kids. They are taught it is only self defense and only enough to get away and get help.

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