Where's Ivanovich? How about moving this thread to another forum? If I wanted to read posts about contact fighting, Id buy a UFC mag......
I looked into taking it, but felt weird because the security was so tight at the Jewish Center. Made me feel like there might be a bombing. That and another place teach it in Costa Mesa, CA as well as others. The real thing not some tai bo, check spelling, workout routine. Check the origins of it. Imi Lectheinfeld, check selling again, was ond of founders of Krav Maga and the IDF. He studied multiple martial arts and beat up Nazi in what was then Bratislava Czechoslovakia. He took what worked in the street from what he studied and created Krav Maga when Israel was founded . If you get a chance watch the fight sport guys on Discovery I believe? They did one on Krav Maga. Too bad our friend RM is gone, he could chime in as ex IDF. Basically my advice is to focus on something based on gross motor movements not fany smancy locks and moves. Here is the link for Krav Maga http://www.commandokravmaga.com/html/index.html After the 911 attacks the flight attendants from OC got training from one of Krav Maga schools in Costa Mesa. How to use trays and other readily available stuff to defend and hurt if need be. If you think about it Israel is surrounded by ppl. that hate their guts. They have survived by being tough. Their methods are tested in the field. That's what you want right? Just like in trading.
That's right, that's what I want. I'm especially interested in learning defense techniques against knife attacks and firearms. Competition sports teach you a system that's shaped around rules and not necessarily what's most effective. Muay Thai is absolutely useless when confronted with an opponent with a knife. If someone rushed me with a knife I wouldn't know how to handle it. Even if I do manage to block a few strikes, any stab I receive is potentially fatal. To solve that problem I'm looking for a combat style that will teach me to neutralize an armed opponent and put me out of risk as soon as possible.
Most combat styles will teach you the Japanese Jiujisu methods; it's the most affective against knife attack and firearm attack, amazingly you'll only need a couple days to learn and about 3 months to train your reflexes. Marine's self defense is probably the best there is, and against an average street punk, confidence is the key to fend off an attacker.
That's a high risk defense if ever there was one, and essentially unproveable until you get to real-life situations. I know BJJ works on unarmed / semi-armed opponents, no idea what type of unarmed super power attack is going to take out a guy with a gun (hence the esoteric comment), but here's a video anyway. Krav Maga Gunfighting But if you really wanna know about gunplay, you should go talk to the POLICE.
I doubt that I will ever have to defend myself against a firearm. I would co-operate in most cases, even if I knew how to defend myself against it. But there are some imaginable situations where the risk of not-acting far outweighs the risk of resisting. Regarding esotericism: you're using the wrong word here. There are no 'inner' and 'outer' teachings when it comes to Krav Maga. Nor is it a style that's fit to translate into a sport. Once you start to shape a combat style around a system of rules fit for competition you decrease its effectiveness in situations where the stakes are about survival. There's an element of non-realism introduced into any martial arts competition so as to allow for comparison between contenders. In Muay Thai you don't practise to safeguard your life in the most pressing of situations. You practise to beat an opponent in a ring according to certain rules.
Agreed, if faced with a gun which is unlikely because I live in 1 out of 10 crime area I would be inclined to throw my wallet one way and run the other. To JJ's earlier point that video he posted does look more complicated than the newer gun disarms I have seen in Krav Maga demos, everything evolves just as in trading. One of the advantages is Krav Maga isn't tied down to certain method they appear to evolve, they borrow from anything that works. Watching some of the videos from human weapon they had some BJJ ground defense during the Krav Maga training, but they don't intend to go to ground. They kicked back after being knocked down and fought to get up quick. First of all I don't want to fight unless it really necessary and then I definitely don't want to take some down on concrete where there is debris and hard surface.