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Re: Never in a fight before.
Here is the thing Crash20, as a younger person I was involved in several fights at different times and the truth is that the feeling afterwards is not euphoria but sadness and distress over what has happened and feeling bad for the person that you fought with even if it was that person that started it. I kid you not, my feeling was like absolute crap and I learnt from it that when your instructor tells you that walking away is the best option, they are not joking. There is no shame in walking away from a fight that you could easilly win. To get into that situation and beat someone up simply shows to you what the extent of your personal character is. There is much to be said for Krav Maga techniques that pin and disable people as opposed to smashing them senseless. Judaism is all about Holiness before G-d. Beating people up is the opposite of that and I feel its the reason why the founder of Krav put other options in the curriculum for situations. Yes sometimes in self defense it is unavoidable. Yet its still regretted, no matter how justified it may have been.
Re: Judo in KM?
Hi Davy,
Krav tends to use Aikido throws rather than Judo throws, this Krav Video by Roy Elghanayan gives some good examples.
Re: Has there been a decline?
All Martial Arts or Self Defence systems if you like peak and trough in terms of popularity. In Australia Taekwondo is traditionally the most popular followed by Karate. Yet Muay Thai and BJJ are currently the popular go to MA’s for many people. Still in terms of $$$ Krav would be amongst the most expensive training systems in Australia because of its popularity bubble as a self defence training system. My mail is that fees for Muay Thai and BJJ are similar and for the same reason.
One point that I would make is that Krav was designed originally around all moves being done with an M4 around your waist and a 35kg pack on your back. It was adapted well to be a street defensive system, yet done in such a way that after six months of training students begin to show confidence in having the skills to defend themselves and I suggest to you that this is the point at which many leave, because they have achieved their goal with Krav of learning to defend themselves to a level that they feel comfortable with.
Re: How do you improve speed?
Practice and more Practice for muscle memory and work on your Triceps is not a bad combination.
Re: Whey Protein Facts
Whey proteins are primarily used as a part of a body building programme. I am not sure that they are going to be very effective at being used with a Cardio Programme like Krav Fitness or similar. The reason is that when you train your muscles to repeated muscle failure or within a close rep range of muscle failure, you routinely tear your muscles and your body produces an acid from your muscles at the same time which has a burning sensation. Whey proteins work to help give your body the protein that it needs to repair and continue the new growth of your muscles.
To complicate matters, Whey Protein is only one form of several types of supplements a Body Builder will use to increase muscle mass. Another popular supplement is Creatine powder for example. Things like concentrated Green Tea & Bitter Melon extracts are used to promote weight loss and enable muscle gain at the same time and are often blended into different protein powders.
For high cardio like what happens at Krav, your main focus is replacing mineral salts lost from the body, slamming down a protein drink is probably not going to do a great deal for you even though your muscles may feel tired.
Krav people tend to have different view on this, yet mine is that a muscle building programme ideally done at the gym and not on a weight set at home goes hand in hand with training in Krav Maga. Yet the training is generally totally separate to your Krav training unless your Krav Gym has this equipment in tandem as some now do. The reason is because the founder set up Krav with the expectation that the fitness level was that of an Israeli soldier, which means in theory that you should aim to be able to drop and do 100 push ups on request from your instructor along with the crunches and other requirements that a Soldier has to present themselves with in their profession. Gym training makes this a reality in most cases.Re: OK they mentioned weaknesses here for km but what about other martial arts?
One point is that its how the MA is practiced, you might have seven guys that train hard in Wing Tsun for example, yet all will apply it differently and with seperate inherint weaknesses, this is true of any MA and includes Krav.
I cant speak for all on your list because I am not familiar enough with them to comment, yet with BJJ, a common critique is multiple attacker defenses, unlike Judo there are no throws, so finding techniques to take on a trio become harder, not impossible though.
Kung Fu / Muay Thai is the reverse, less moves when it goes to the ground. You can still defend yourself with Kung Fu on the ground but its not often taught that way.
Sambo is often compared to Judo and sometimes labelled the Russian version of Judo, I dont know more than that bar the fact that its hard to find Dojos that train in it.
Re: Discouraged…
Sounds like someone is trying to tell you something Magpie! 🙂
If you have a minute, Google Morihei Ueshiba Quotes. He created the system of Aikido and wrote a number of very encouraging thoughts that many people in the martial arts community find helpful. Also there is a great book called “Aikido for Life” by Gaku Homma, whilst its on Aikido not Krav, it is a great book for any student of any discipline because it talks openly about what are you expecting to gain from martial arts, what your strengths and weaknesses are and heaps of stuff that helps keep things in focus which apply just as much to Krav as any other system.
Re: Anybody taking privates in any Martial art
Whilst it might be expensive, the value of one on one training sessions with a master is invaluable and worth every cent.
There is always going to be good value in cross training. Muay Thai utilises Western Boxing as does Krav, so its good to have a look at the rest of the Muay Thai program and learn from it. My own club recently had a Karate instructor in from one of the various Karate disciplines and we all had a go at some of his techniques. I learn a lot from that training session and would happily go again any time for the benefits it brings to Krav training.
Re: Discouraged…
Remember the old saying “the only person you compete with is yourself”. Even at the top levels of Krav there is always going to be someone better, such is life. The key thing is to know that you are doing your personal best, we cant ask more of you than that.
Re: Best cardio exercise for Krav
The negative for using running as training for Krav is that you are not picking up enough muscle groups. I would suggest hard sessions on a Rowing Machine and as many laps as you can do in the pool.
Re: What kind of shoes do you wear?
Squash or Racquet ball shoes can be a good economical option because of the increased side stitching!
Re: How would you teach your child Krav Maga
It comes down to the age of the child, between 6-10 Judo might be a good start as many Judo clubs have good programmes for that age group.
Re: Groin Kicks is all there is
When I first took the intro course over 8 weeks or so, there was plenty of practicing of Groin Strikes and basic techniques of how you counter attack with groin striking. If you just looked at that in isolation without looking at what the rest of the Krav syallubus moves into then I suspect that is the impression you would come away with.
I respect MMA and BJJ, yet both are practiced as sports, there is no Sport element to Krav, it is a basic self defense system that works.
It is a shame that the moment you go onto internet forums there are people that have nothing better to do than sledge other martial arts systems and try and promote their own at the same time. In early MMA they held a match between an MMA guy and a Wing Chun master and the MMA guy got the absolute tar beaten out of him, yet these days if you type in any martial art or MMA vs anything else you can see examples of one style winning over another. It proves absolutley nothing. My advice to people is try several styles and think carefully before you sign on the dotted line, once you do however give it everything and become good at what you do, then you will actually be in a position to make judgements about what you feel works and what does not work. Krav is great for some people and yet something like Kali-Escrima might be better for someone else. What works for one person does not always work for another. I love training in Krav, yet am not in the slightest threatened by someone else training in something else, neither do I have any desire to win them over to Krav. What I do have is respect for what they do and what it is that I can learn from it.
Re: Krav Maga affordability
Sadly Crash20, Krav is still at the stage where its still the flavor of the month in many areas along with BJJ and Muay Thai training, so as a result schools are charging higher fees as a result. This will change over time, but not at the moment.
I totally understand where you are coming from, in Australia, the costs of doing Krav in some centres is well over double the cost of a regular taekwondo school or similar.
One thing that I would suggest is that your situation is not likely going to be long term, things always sort themselves out and giving up your gym membership may not be the best idea as strong physical fitness is a good part of Krav when training at the higher levels.
What you may have to do on a temporary basis is to look for a martial arts training centre that is “not for profit” and run by volunteers as opposed to being privately owned. These can offer traning that will keep you going in a related martial art to Krav until you can jump back into it again. – Karate tends to be popular in these centres, yet if you can find somewhere that trains in Judo or Aikido, that may be a better fit for you to use as a part of your Krav Training later on.
Good luck with it anyway mate, plenty of people have been where you are and your desire to stick at it is what counts!
Re: Strength training
General weight training, – predominantly free weights and kettlebells, but cable weighted machines also. Training of legs is the way to go for Krav, strong core which builds endurance and better capacity to train for longer.
Whilst its somewhat of a fad on the internet, the 100 Pushups programme is a good one to organize yourself into as that is approaching the fitness that is required in the Israeli military!
