[thepeanutmaster]

Re: Why Krav?

Great reading the stories here. Why Krav? The reason for me would be because I missed it. After training Aikido for a year or so I trained in Krav Maga for two years. At two different schools simultaneously I LOVED it. Walked out the class feeling at ease, confident and happy. Only problem was it was a long journey to get there from where I lived. Finances were not great at the time…

A Wing Chun school was much closer to me and more for financial / travel reasons I joined it. The people there were great and I stuck at the system stubbornly for 4 years! And never returned to Krav. I believed wingchun being a Traditional Martial art was better for me than Krav Maga so I stuck at it (i was wrong) All the while missing the more realistic and grounded Krav.

Then the last few months of my Wing Chin I started losing the love for it. Making excuses not to go. Questioning a little bit what we were doing. The techniques, bear in mind my Wing Chun teacher was really really good. It wasn’t him it was me. lol

I was a very dedicated student, never missing a lesson. Stubbornly pushing myself to stick at something. There was just a missing connection with what I was learning and what I thought would actually work in an uncontrolled quick response situation. Krav may have been a bit more unpolished and less clean, but this is the nature of the street fight right? Wing Chun looks pretty, particularly chi sau but I just felt after all that time it wasn’t for me. I missed Krav.

Very hard to leave, especially when you almost enter into a kind of Pseudo religious bond with your martial art. It just so happened I moved to another area of the country recently, so this served as a convenient reason for me to say goodbye to my Wing Chun. Was also the kick I needed.

My new location when looking for Krav, what do you know, ten minutes down the road. A Krav Maga class…

I start again tonight 😎

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