Krav Maga?! I need to know!!!?

i have change my view on krav maga, i use to just rip it to pieces, but that is no more correct then claiming its the best,

then you corrected me on an over site last week, in the statement i made, since i have been in martial arts longer you will have to do 20 push ups for that,

firstly i still don't see krav maga as a martial arts but as a self defense course,

and like anything you take its only as good or realistic as the instructor and the way you train.

and just like in martial arts there are horrible instructor in krav maga as well as martial arts, some people teach just for the money and dont care if its practical or you learn anything

i saw one place claiming to teach krav maga jkd style, or krav maga the jkd style, i have no idea what they meant by that, and they instructor wouldn't be able to fight his way out of a paperbag,

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i dont recommend styles or self defense courses, i recommend you look at the instructor, and see how good they, are as well as the way they teach, after all that is what really matters in the end.

i dont see krav maga as anything special mostly all the techniques i have seen form the instructors that know what they were doing, i've been teaching for years, before i even heard of it.

i have taken a few class, not many. the rest comes from reliable people like your posting on it, a few of my friends and colleges, and a few books i found in my liberty it, i dont know how long i had those books for, i didnt even know they were there until i was organizing them last year.

do i still get the lollipop? and are you giving out teddy bears as well?

Check out the location's website and see if they are part of any krav maga association. If they are, you might be able to go on the association's website and see how good their instructors are. They should also either let you take a free class before you join, or let you watch.

I knwo nothing about krav maga except what I have learned from your answers and watching fight quest, I just think it's funny I see no answers from the main people on here that are always krav maga is the deadliest. I even e-mailed the link to a couple to make sure they hadn't missed it.

I don't care for lolipops but I get two points.

I have never taken it, I have never said some one should take it, I know nothing about it.

We do have a school here but it is part of a place that teaches a few different martial arts and all of the instructors there for the other martial arts have a bad rap here for not knowing what they teach. So I never looked in to it. Couple that with the fact that the Krav instructor goes to all the MMA shows around here and tells every one he is a Krav master was kind of a deterrent anyways.

I feel that I have to weigh in here. I have never studied Krav Maga, but I have studied something similar. Kajukenbo. Same principle. It was developed by 5 Black Belts to help teach the Hawaiian Police self defense and how to quickly subdue someone. The Russians Have Systema

As far as I can see none of them have created anything significantly better than anything else out there. They certainly didn't create anything new. there are only so many ways to punch, or kick, etc. The big difference is in the philosophies and how they are applied, that and in Kajukenbo at least, the training can be almost brutal. Something that I can't say helped make anyone better any faster. As with anything out there there are both good and bad schools. That and styles are not effective people are. A friend of mine has a good saying along those lines, "It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog"

Oh and I really don't care about the lollipop have enough weight problem without it. LOL

I have the training manual for Krav Maga and they tell you that it is a combo of different martial arts. It cuts out the needless tradition(not all the tradition. just the needless tradition) and teaches what is necessary. Everyone says it's not practical. It's a lot more practical than most martial arts. Every martial art that I've studied, has a lot of unpractical techniques and self-defense combos and stuff. You have to do this this this and this and then you get the objective. Krav maga, you do this and get the objective. But krav maga has a lot less nonsense than any other martial art that I've seen. Krav maga says they don't have any nonsense in their system so everyone looks very skeptically towards it. If we did the same to our own martial arts our opinion of them would change.

http://www.commandokravmaga.com/

If you have followed any of my posts concerning KM. You already know I'm not a fan of it in the least. The problem I have with the "Art" of Krav Maga is ( bear in mind it's only my opinion. Nothing more.) I think it is flawed in it's basic philosophy. They claim they focus on situational training. Yet, lack training in simple observation. No one has ever been able to brandish a weapon on me without my realizing quickly their intent to do so. ( Yes, I've had weapons pulled on me. I grew up in Detroit. It's not that uncommon there.) My point is this. Why would I wait until a weapon was in the attacker's hand before I respond? That is what I see as the basic flaw in their philosophy.

The basic Krav Maga stuff is actually very good. But the more advanced it gets it becomes very unrealistic and starts to resemble choreographed fight scenes.

I spend most my time in Judo and a little in BJJ, the only experience I have on this subject is the few classes I took and reading a few books and articles, so I am not an expert in this subject.

//Some general info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_Maga

I do know it is used in the Israeli special forces and police department, so compare that to similar teaching to say the Airborne Rangers self defense. Similar, not identical.

It does not have sporting like Judo, no randori, so it is similar to Aikido in terms of just practicing techniques and then having someone attack you with a few surprises, except I would say it is far more aggressive. You need to be quick and they work on quick reflexes, I would surmise maybe more so then they do in other arts.

www.bullshido.com

www.bullshido.net

As far as i have seen/heard Krav focuses on situational awareness, and tripping your opponent striking them fast to disorient him, and then running the F away and keeping yourself in one piece.