#krav maga

[naipan]

[thinksideways]

So we recently had a 78 year old man who joined our krav gym. He’d come to my class yesterday but had to leave early.

Tonight after class he came up to me and said “I wrote a poem about my class experience yesterday, do you want to see?” and I said “okay” and then he just left and drove away. I think I was either blessed or cursed.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Cousin spoke about how the GSD teaches “de-escalation” tactics, and is not just about fighting. He told a story about when he was on patrol with Shomrim and his team confronted a man after a robbery. “He pushed me,” Cousin said. “Instead of pushing him back, I said, ‘I don’t want to fight you.’ I calmed him down. I apologized. That comes from the training — I don’t want to fight, but I’m ready, just in case.”

“This is a last resort program,” he added. “If you put your hands on us, we will remind you that Jewish blood is not cheap.”

Like Legion’s Feldman, Richards is gearing up for a new group of GSD trainees this year who have heard about his Krav Maga program. Richards is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and compared the current rise in antisemitism to what his grandparents experienced.

“The Jews are being targeted everywhere — verbally, online, physically. From the right and left, we are now under siege,” Richards said. “If you’re visibly Jewish, you have a double target on your back. We don’t have the luxury of trying to plan what we should do. Everybody should be taking action.”

“There are plenty of people in this class who had never thrown a punch in their life,” Landsman said of his training with Legion. “I’m not asking you to join the UFC [the mixed martial arts league], but you need to be able to stand your ground and unfreeze yourself when somebody is threatening you with violence. You need to know when to run or when there is no retreat and you have to defend yourself.”

[tommytokugamer]

LET'S FIGHT

If someone are interested in learning and practice martial arts like taekwondo, Muay Thai, Karate, etc. I have a carpet with almost hundreds of Martial arts' books.

[kyriasblog]

Get in shape🙂

Destress 🙂

Learn to kick-ass

[arbitrarycategories]

HEY!! Because I’m curious:

Tag what kind of self defense/martial arts you know (if you know any) and the coolest move you’ve learned

[dukdukgeese522]

Ok Tumblr I got a question about an alignment chart me and @qutopyo made

I think I'm right but I'm not sure

[gobbothegreat]

Hey Had to fight a Krav Maga Shark today .... So how'd your day go? Hope it was good

[mcclainwilla]

Writing Fight Scenes, Part 2

I'm back. Here is a non-comprehensive list of different styles of martial arts, their usefulness (in my opinion), strengths, weaknesses and common features

Disclaimer: Yes, I did five years of martial arts, but my curriculum was mixed so I'm a bit of a jack of all trades. Take that as you will

Taekwondo

Usefulness: 6/10

Funnily enough, I rank this one a 6/10 on its practicality, yet this is the primary style I was taught.

Strengths:

Practitioners are flexible and strong in compromised positions (even when their muscles are stretched in ways other people would find uncomfortable - i.e, they have thrown a kick above their head level - they maintain their balance and ability to put some power into the hit)

Mentioned above, they have great balance

Weaknesses:

Taekwondo focuses a lot on kicks. 1. Kicks are slower than hand strikes, 2. they sap more energy than hand strikes, and 3. It's far easier to be knocked over when you're often standing on one foot

Taekwondo also focuses on big movements. Blocks utilize your entire arm and often travel the length of your face. Again, this is slow and takes up energy

Taekwondo is a 100% standing martial art, which means you spend all of your time on your feet and none of it grappling on the ground. If your character has a tkd-only background, they won't know what to do if they get knocked over (and, it's easier to fall down than it is to stand up. I'll elaborate on this in a later post)

People have genuinely laughed in my face when I admitted to having practiced taekwondo. Ouch

Features:

High, 'snappy' kicks

Broad, showy blocks and strikes

Generally exaggerated movements made to look impressive rather than to serve a function

Tldr; on a scale of martial arts, taekwondo is more 'art' than it is 'martial'

Brazillian jiu jitsu

Usefulness: 9/10

Bjj my beloved. Really, the only reason I won't give this one a 10/10 is that you have to wear your gi while you practice, which is sweaty and cumbersome. By the way, practice is called 'grappling' or 'rolling.' "Hey man, you wanna roll with me?" is an acceptable thing to ask your bjj buddy

Strengths:

Extremely practical. More likely than not, if a character ends up in a fight, someone is going to lose their balance and fall, and what happens then? You grapple

BJJ ends fights. If your characters are sparring, bjj matches end when someone taps out, either from a choke or some kind of arm/kneebar, wrist lock, etc. If your characters are fighting, bjj matches end when someone passes out from a choke or can't use their broken limbs <3

Despite the above bullet point, bjj is actually far safer than other styles of martial arts, as long as you communicate with your partner (if you get knocked out bc you didn't tap out on time, that's on you)

Weaknesses:

If your fingers get wrapped up in the material of your partner's gi, they're probably gonna get broken. Do not recommend

Features:

Very close proximity to your training partners. I cringe a little when I remember calling it 'aggressive cuddling' but that is truly what it is

Slower pace, more focus on short bursts of speed to maneuver from one position to another

Arm/kneebars, chokes

Side note: 'Grappling' can also refer to bjj performed in casual clothes (instead of gis); I rate grappling a 10/10 on the usefulness scale because, let's be real, what are the odds that someone would attack your character while they just so happened to be wearing their uniform?

Krav Maga

Usefulness: 10/10

Strengths:

This shit is mean I'm talking an unholy combo of elbow/knee strikes, chokes, arm/kneebars, and a whole slew of attacks directed at all your squishy bits (eye sockets, throat, left nut, you name it)

Weaknesses:

Uhh

Jk yeah because it's so mean it's difficult for your characters to practice in real time. If you gouge out your buddy's eyes, you're a bad sparring partner

Features:

Death

Elbow/knee strikes

Targets the face/throat/organs/vulnerable joints (human knees suck ass)

Muay Thai

Usefulness: 7/10

I'm not going to lie I don't know a TON about this one

Strengths:

Still pretty mean. When I think of muay thai, I think of the muay thai roundhouse kick (instead of hitting with your foot, you hit with your whole shin. It's a little like clubbing someone with a baseball bat) and a slew of throws

Weaknesses:

A lot of those aforementioned throws are, in my opinion, a little complicated. The more complicated the move, the more opportunities there are for you to fuck it up

Features:

Mean ass kicks

Cool ass throws

Boxing

I don't love referring to this one as a martial art. But whatever

Usefulness: 7/10

Strengths:

Common currency. Sure, since a lot of people know the basics of boxing, your characters have to be a little above average to gain the upper hand in a situation, but if they know fuck-all they're gonna get their shit rocked

Can end a fight. All it takes is one good punch to the right part of your character's opponent's face, and they're out

Weaknesses:

Focuses too much on standing. What happens if you trip and fall? Bitch

More of a brawling martial art with less opportunities for smaller/weaker characters to succeed

Features:

Lots of punches, lots of blocks, lots of ducks

Emphasis on footwork (favors the lightfooted)

Emphasis on strength (favors the bulky)

Two notes. 1. Yes, I did martial arts for a while. No, I don't 'know' martial arts, and I never will; it's impossible to learn it all. 2. Your characters probably won't (shouldn't) stick to one style, because there is something to be gained across all styles. Even with silly little martial arts like taekwondo, it wouldn't exist if it didn't work, at least a little bit (so don't bully me about doing tkd!!)

[kravmagaexpertsnyc]

Do martial arts bring about positive changes in the mindset as well?

The disturbing stats of unlawfulness always made me grab my cell phone and look for the best training classes for martial arts near me. I enrolled with the Krav Maga Experts based on my friend's recommendation and could see the changes in my body and mindset within the first few days. The trainers here have refined teaching and fighting skills and are professional in teaching you to become your own hero.

[thinksideways]

been the kind of day where the hour you spend getting punched in the head is the best part of it

[theronindiaries]

[blackros78]

Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? No. ISIS agents use Krav Maga.

Sterling Archer

[kravmagasrilanka]

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