anyone know anything about this type of martial art?

All I know that its a form of martial art designed for close quarters combat.

The Isreali army, and CIA use Krava Maga as their form of self defence as far as I know

I've seen the gun defences instructional; has anyone seen any other Krav Maga intructionals or do they do Krav Maga?

i was going down this street today closeby to my neighborhood and there was a place where they teach krav maga.

pretty crazy, i didnt think i'd find it here.

i was told about this from this guy at where i train boxing. he's got 3 2nd degree black belts in 3 ifferent martial arts and high ranking belts in others...but anyway. i was tlaking to him about that and he told me that if i was serious about mixed martial arts or anything like that, that krav maga was probably one of the most effective, that it's very lethal. he also said that "when you fight, you want the fight to be over as soon as possible, krav maga makes fights end quick, IT'S VERY LETHAL"

but i really dont know shit about. other than what's was said in the post above.

I never knew we had to train to cheat.

Basically Krav Maga is a no-nonsense combat training designed to deal with “worst case scenarios” – multiple attackers, fighting whilst injured or whilst trying to protect someone. I get the idea that it deals with “real world” situations, like being attacked by someone in the back seats of a car whilst you are in the driving seat etc (but don’t quote me on that).
It stresses getting the fight over quickly by most means necessary (including utilising any objects to hand). Therefore there is no sport/competition element to the training.


http://www.krav-maga.com/

http://www.kravmaga.com/history.asp

Krav Maga (Hebrew קרב מגע: "contact combat") is a self-defense and military hand to hand combat system developed in Israel. It came to prominence following its adoption by various Israeli Security Forces and is now used by military and law enforcement personnel, as well as civilians, around the world. The version of Krav Maga taught in civilian martial arts classes is more often a simplified version that emphasizes personal self-defense, and is likely to exclude the killing techniques taught to the military, or the holds and come-alongs taught to police forces; there are legal proscriptions in some countries which govern and constrain the teaching of hazardous or life-threatening techniques to civilians.


Imi Lichtenfeld
The beginning of the system that would become Krav Maga in Israel was developed in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the 1930s by Imi Lichtenfeld, also known as Imi Sde-Or. (Sde-Or - "Light Field" - is a direct translation of his surname into Hebrew.) He first taught his fighting system in Bratislava in order to help protect the Jewish community from Nazi militias. Upon arriving in the British Mandate of Palestine prior to the establishment of the Jewish state, Imi began teaching hand-to-hand combat to the Haganah, the Jewish underground army. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Imi became the Chief Instructor of Physical Fitness and Krav Maga at the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) School of Combat Fitness. He served in the IDF for about 20 years, during which time he continued to develop and refine his hand-to-hand combat method. He passed away in January 1998 in Netanya, Israel.

damn. that's crazy.

it'd be cool to see some of those techniques applied to MMA.

i've heard alot of critiques about it because of many training sequences which aren't live
because of this alot of the knife defense things probably won't work in reality
but i'd rather know them then not right

Well not any MA or MMA is a garantee for suc6.

Krav Maga is just filty fighting to neutralize your opponent as quick as possible even it means sticking his eyes out with fingers, keys, etc...

Ppl always comparing with MMA sadenly nowadays.

Krav Maga is more for the army or ppl who want to learn self-defense when having problems on street.

I always say the more you know, the better but that doesn't mean it will work for you at that moment.

The small peices I have seen of it are all groin and eye strikes. The art of poking someone in the eye then kneeing them in the balls I guess. Dont think you will be seeing it anytime soon in UFC! Downside is you dont get to see if its really effective because its not used in MMA tournments.

Any military hand to hand system I would be sceptical of. Its usually some overy simplified handful of moves or knife/gun defence stuff.

Its reality self defense that also utilizes groin strikes. Its pretty much used by armed forces and such.

it's hard to cheat when your adrenaline is pumping, and someone is swinging for the hills, and it's not like they perform and test out those techinques daily under real adrenalized pressure of someone pressuring you.

It's all about the MMA baby!!

Muay thai, BJJ, Wrestling, Boxing, Greco roman, some kickboxing...babay!

Absolute garbage ... my buddy trains it i went to a couple classes. its a joke.. 'k grab my shirt and ill do this ... but grab me SLOWLYYY'

krav maga is no good in mma its close combat with no rules mma is a sport

i attended a kravmaga class. Its good to make your spirit tough. before you even start training you do one hell of a warm up you warm up till you feel like you want to quit and then you begin training to simulate fighting when you feel like shit because you dont know if your gonna be attacked in your sleep
mabe drunk after a party or when you really have to pee and take a shit but you have to hold it in intill you kill the guy that has a knife to your face and then go escape to the helicoptor so it can take you to the bathroom but first you find out the pilot is evil so you put on your rambo headband and throw him out then learn how to fly a helicoptor and fast. you still have to pee and shit but its ok cause your tuff just take a puff of your mary jane and look over and see chuck norris in the passenger seat. everything will be ok and fly off to the sunset ultimate victory.