Anyone else do Krav Maga?

[Ariadne]

I just passed my first grading - woohoo! I got involved in it because I like kettlebells, and they use them in training, but I've got into the self defence stuff too, it's really fun.

[Cudzoziemiec]

No, but I used to teach a middle-aged woman whose teenage son took it up cos he kept getting mugged on the way home from school etc. After maybe a month of doing it he was set upon by two attackers, but this time was able to fight them both off, sustaining nothing other than mild cuts and bruises. So it does seem to be an effective method of self-defence (until the muggers learn it too, of course).

[Gandalf]

Little danger of  muggers learning a martial art and attaining any decent level, because it takes character and commitment. 

The drop out rate in the first six weeks is probably about 80% IME.

[Zoidburg]

Little danger of  muggers learning a martial art and attaining any decent level, because it takes character and commitment.  

The drop out rate in the first six weeks is probably about 80% IME.

Krav Maga is not a martial art and there is very little in it about character - quite the reverse, it's about learning to be more of a nasty bastard than the mugger.

It may be something taught in gyms now but it is still a crash course in dirty tricks and lethal action.

[andygates]

Any self-defence technique that uses a kettlebell is bound to be a touch thuggish.   

[Cudzoziemiec]

Little danger of  muggers learning a martial art and attaining any decent level, because it takes character and commitment.  

The drop out rate in the first six weeks is probably about 80% IME.

Krav Maga is not a martial art and there is very little in it about character - quite the reverse, it's about learning to be more of a nasty bastard than the mugger.

It may be something taught in gyms now but it is still a crash course in dirty tricks and lethal action.

That's how it was taught to my student's son. Out-mugging the mugger.

[Zoidburg]

Is this thread in "Health & Fitness" because we don't have a board marked "Maiming & Killing"?

[Regulator]

Little danger of  muggers learning a martial art and attaining any decent level, because it takes character and commitment.  

The drop out rate in the first six weeks is probably about 80% IME.

Krav Maga is not a martial art and there is very little in it about character - quite the reverse, it's about learning to be more of a nasty bastard than the mugger.

It may be something taught in gyms now but it is still a crash course in dirty tricks and lethal action.

Well, it was developed for the Israeli 'Defence' Force... so what else would you expect 

[Zoidburg]

 

It's a bit hyped up, a lot of forces use something like it, not just the IDF.

The first book was this one.

All-in Fighting: Amazon.co.uk: W.E. Fairbairn: Books