Sharing experiences from Krav-Maga "seminar"
Original Poster: Blade
Forum: Hand to Hand Combat
Posted On: 20-11-2006, 18:21
Orginal Post: Blade: Ive been training for the past few months in a special program that prepares teenagers before the army, besides the regular endurance and bootcamp like training we also get to taste other things, our coach brought us a krav maga instructor that works with the army special forces to give us a feel for the krav maga courses that special units in the army undergo. it was offcourse watered down, because in the army they are much more rough with you but it was still interesting to experience it.
we were shown the KM stance and then we were told to always defend our head and always face our opponent, he said that he's our opponent for the next training sessions, so anyone that forgot that and didnt face him got a little hit or kick in the ass to remind him hehe, he always told us to remain focused and aware of where he is, once in a while he'd come around and start hitting our heads lightly, if you held your hands too low and werent able to defend you had to do 20 pushups, throught the sessions he would scream out something that meant either to sprint to that wall and back or start crawling towards a certain direction, or just lay on your stomache \back and if he shouted a number you had to do the appropriet pushups\sit-ups. and when you were done you were always expected to get back to the stance, defend your head and face him, which gets very tiring after a while. we didnt get much technique, we did agressiveness drills where we had to wrestle with eachother from a back-to-back sitted position, or we held eachother's hands and had to pull eachother over the line between us, we did a drill where a number of people formed a column to simulate a crowd and we had to crash through them pushing everyone aside and then sprint here and there and punch the pads, besides this we learnt some punches kicks knees and elbows which we practiced on pads, then we combined these with crawling , running and certain stations where we had to give certain combinations,
we also did a drill where one person would stand in the middle with 4 guys sorrounding him then whoever hits\pushes him with the pad he has to punch him until hit by another pad and so on...thats pretty much what we did , 2 sessions only , we were supposed to do knife techniques aswell but we didnt :\, hopefully we'l do it in the future.
overall it wasent very interesting material for someone with experience in martial arts espacialy because these were only 2 sessions but the atmosphere and the teaching methods were something new to experience : .
Post: blkghost:
It sounds like if the class were more intense it would be a little more intresting. But other than that I see where your perspective is at when you say you arleady have martial arts experience, so it wasn't as intresting as you'd hope. Maybe you could propose that you and the instructor could train with one another, so you may acqurier new knowledge on your journey of yourself.>
Post: Robert_RedBeard:
Sounds like Krav Maga Training to me.
Krav Maga is pretty basic but brutally trained into you. If done right. Those drills attempt to recreate the stress of a real fight. Trainging you to get up and fight from all kinds of conditions on the ground.
That's why I like Krav Maga's training techinques. Stressful Training, Simple Techniques and Effective Principles.>
Post: bamboo:
Thanks for the review Blade.>
Post: graham1:
[quote=Robert_RedBeard Sounds like Krav Maga Training to me.
Krav Maga is pretty basic but brutally trained into you. If done right. Those drills attempt to recreate the stress of a real fight. Trainging you to get up and fight from all kinds of conditions on the ground.
That's why I like Krav Maga's training techinques. Stressful Training, Simple Techniques and Effective Principles.[/quote
They're also very good in that they place you at a disadvantage & make you fight to attain the advantage.>
Post: Robert_RedBeard:
Good point.
Kinda what I was getting at but better words.
I have noticed that one of the harder things to pound into people is that they cannot stop an attack on the defense. That they must transition to the attack as soone as they can or the odds will only get better for their attacker as the attack continues.
Most people just don't wanna have to hurt someone else. I recently read something titled: Sheep, Wolves and Sheep Dogs.
It is written by a police officer I think. It talks about how a good portion of people just don't have it in them to fight in a "Fight or Flight" situation.
That is why one of the aspects I pound home is fitness and the ability to get away. Because it will work for most people and still leave them feeling Moral in the end.
Me, I'm a Sheep Dog. I hate the Wolves. And I have no problem kicking the Wolf's butt even if the Sheep are scared of me because of it. The Sheep love the Sheep Dog only when he is saving their sorry fleeces.>
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