What is Krav Maga?
 
The most complete self defence system? Maybe. Read more below.

How you can use this self defence system originally used by the Israeli military that combines various martial arts making practical for the everyday street situations to transform your confidence.

So you wanna now what Krav Maga is right?

Imma make this one a bit different.

Every website gonna tell you the same story.

The short version being some dude back in the day called Imi Litchenfeld combined boxing and a bunch of other martial arts to teach the Jewish people how to defend themselves in world war 2.

I ain’t going deeper than that.

f you’re reading this I’m assuming you’ve got 2 thumbs, access to the most advanced tech available to you at any point in our humankind history and an IQ over 69 so you’ll figure where to look if you want to know more.

Also if you’re a sob sister about to cry “free Palpatine” at me, miss me with that.

Couldn’t give a fried egg about Gazza and humous death camps.

Also what’s a Palpatine?

All I know is Palpatine was a bad person. He turned Anakin to the dark side.

Focus on yourself big man.

Right that’s outta the way.

Let’s get to it.

So back in the day I was always getting into minor trouble.

The kinda trouble you know when you’re a young lad and you’ve had 7 pint and 3 sambucas down you. And next thing you know it’s madness outside kebabye at 3:69 am.

You can read about my villain origin story here.

Wasn’t the biggest guy back then either. I was skinny like a crack head living under Catford bridge.

RSo naturally I looked to join a martial arts club to defend myself.

So back then I joined a Japanese Jui Jitsu club because of it’s focus on methods that didn’t rely on size and strength and more technique. I was skinny as remember right?

Anyways it was good but at the back of my mind I was always like "Yo I can’t ever remember someone attacking me like this with them straight punches. It was always them wild swinging punches outside kebabye."

Also I didn’t find some of it practical for the streets.

And then one of my mates Kelvin gave me this book called Splinter cell.

It was based off the first game and I was fresh offa playing it on the first ever Xbox.

Hiding in the shadows slitting throats, causing blunt force trauma and lining up head shots. Good times.

Anyways there was this one scene where he’s hiding in, gets caught and then he’s gotta like fight 10 guys.

And he said something like I used Krav Maga "which was all about fighting dirty and escaping the situation only. None of the fancy stuff you see in martial arts."

So I was like “I wonder if this Krav Maga thing really exists?”

Went down the old boobtube rabbit hole found a couple of videos. And promptly went out got smashed and forgot about it.

Years later when I was threatened in Bromley with a knife and I wanted to go back to jui jitsu.

But then I was like "let me just type in Krav Maga Bromley in Google and see what comes up."

And bang. My old instructor Darren was there.

Turned up for many years and became eventually became an instructor.

Now I’ve never stuck to anything in my life. For real. I’d never really see anything through before.

And the fact I managed to stick at it for over 5 years and pass the instructor test is as rare as diet sugar free water.

And it still amazes me I’ve taught CEO’s, prison officers, bouncers, ordinary everyday lads who were bullied and now do the bullying to people who to people who deserve it.

So I racked my cerebal cortex to why this was:

• Urban Krav Maga didn’t rely on size and strength for the techniques to work. You didn’t have to be built like Anthony Joshua. With correct body mechanics and building of a positional advantage you could make it work even if you weigh less than an iPhone nano 69.
• Could help me boost my fitness and look better. None of that skinny marathon runner type training. The type of training that made you fast, explosive and put a bit of size on you.
• Where I could meet some new people and stop getting smashed down the pub all the time.
• Crystal clear instructions from my instructor Darren. Which actually engaged my grey matter, fired them synapses and actually made well rounded in all parts of me life.
• The actual practical applications of how martial arts should be used in a real life confrontation. And it combined striking, grappling and the ground game unlike when some systems that only focus on one aspect.
• Gave me a mental vacation from the non existent stresses in my life I had going at the time.
• Retained the fluidity of martial arts without the non practical elements.
• Didn’t have to have the fitness of the British Olympic 100m team or the strength of the powerful lifting team to get started.
• Didn’t have the restrictions of traditional martial arts and self defence systems where you’re only specialised and confine in one skillset. So you can blend various martial arts to solve a almost any critical situation.
• Factored how to make the techniques work under the restrictions of fear, tunnel vision, shakes and when you’re caught by the surprise of sudden violence.

That's it.

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