Has any one had direct contact with a less than reputable Krav Maga school? Let me know, I'm trying to fix it.?

Isn't krav maga just situation awareness training atleaset the civilian version all the guys I know who did it sadi there guys told then to do mma or cross train under different arts.

I'm not entirely sure about Krav Maga, as it seems to have wildly differing standards of teaching, with there being some downright bad commercial and exploitative schools (although many styles do, so I can't fault just Krav Maga for that). For getting yourself out of trouble in playground fights (that is, defending yourself long enough to stop the fight), I'd recommend a style like Wing Chun or another good Kung Fu style, or just normal boxing. Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu can also be good, but it is rare to find. An important thing to consider is how good the martial arts teacher you go to is, though. The styles I mentioned above might not be taught well in your local area, so you'll want to read up on what is available. Ultimately, all martial arts have some element of practicality to them (even Tai Chi, believe it or not), but it's about how easily they are applied, and how well they are taught. If you're looking at a style, and it doesn't look like it's something that could work in a fight, then feel free to be skeptical of it. But also remember that many martial arts consist of a lot of conditioning exercises, rather than just moves you would use in a fight.

Your intentions may be honorable but I don't understand the plan here. There are thousands upon thousands of crappy krav maga schools. The way I see it the only way a krav maga school can be good is if it has tied to the Israely military. That's where krav maga originates and that's the only place where real krav maga is taught out. What I mean with ties is that someone has to have learned krav maga in the military. But what has happened is that those ties are lost. And that's how it became watered down.

Today KM is marketing itself as self defense for everyone. In a way it's correct because self defense is for everyone. However in order to get more people and more money standards are kept low. If you would raise the intensity of workouts, start doing real sparing and all that, then less people would come. If you would have the same standards as in the military then even less people would come. And that's where the problem originated - $$$.

It's not your job to follow up on every school on the planet to see if they are good or not. Some of us are not even Americans, like me. You keep your school good and that's all you can do. People need to learn to do some basic research before they start training any martial arts. A lot of people will get screwed by the McDojos but hey there is nothing you can do about that. You do you, concentrate on your training, hopefully it's high quality and let people make their own mistakes.

You will never stop it. This problem plagues all styles to a degree. They become watered down and its worse when the style becomes popular because every man and their dog wants to jump on the band wagon.

For every one school someone tells you about 4 or 5 new ones have started up, You only need to look online on youtube and see for yourself the amount of school teaching trash. This is with every style even BJJ (i do agree with KW that the style is hard to fake, but its not faked it gets diluted from its GJJ roots).

Of course there are some wonderful KM schools out there but to many bad ones that unfairly tip the scales against real KM. Even in your KM alliance there will be rubbish schools whether you like it or not. They may be teaching real KM but have a poor instructor, so the problem is too widespread and it can never be undone.

You cant stop an avalanche

First of all, how did you discover there is in fact a lack of integrity in teaching and representing KM in one day? 24 hours and you can confidently speak for the hundreds or thousands of teachers representing KM? You say you have met dozens that you deem acceptable, so explain how you have met, and evaluated at least an equal number in the last day?

You are trying to be PC I think. You are going entirely by what you read here, and that is nothing more than who has a bigger art. Ask yourself how many people have met and sparred with dozens of KM teachers? Ask yourself how many people here have actually trained in KM, for a reasonable period, lets say 5 years? There are tools on this site that will say they have studied "martial arts" for 40 years and will say "most" KM schools are bogus. There are tools here like the two that have responded already that are basing their belief on what...ask them how long they studied KM and under who?

It's very amusing to see the leading McDojo "respectfully" acknowledge KM is one. Hello??? The Gracies are offering online training and instructor certification. Ask any teacher, including these two tools if anyone can seriously train and learn from a DVD, and they will say no, that is McDojo, yet they ignore that. lil KW is a low level BJJ'er and teaching, another element of McDojo-ism. Shae, if you read her, is so full of double standards she contradicts herself daily. (as seen by her calling KM a McDojo and being a proud rep of one) A real teacher understands that double standards are the mark of a beginner.

I wouldn't worry about what anyone on this board says about KM.

It's problem stems from popularity.

The least popular styles have the highest percentage of legitimate schools.

Popularity causes the McDojo effect to kick in.

The statement that MMA is exempt from this is absurd, it is very popular, and has many bad schools.

the best of them isn't that good.

I wish you luck fixing that, while knowing you will not be successful.

Best we can do is evaluate each place by it's won merit.