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Krav Maga is a Self Defense and Military Combat System. It got world wide popularity after it was adopted by the Special Forces of many countries. Krav Maga emphasizes Personal self-defense in a variety of situations common in todays unpredictable world. Krav Maga, is not a sport, and there are no specific uniforms, or competitions. All the techniques focus real-life street conditions. Krav Maga attacks and defenses aim to neutralize and escape via maximum pain as rapidly and safely BY Crippling attacks to vulnerable body parts. At CATS Mumbai we teach the art of Krav Maga in a systematic & scientific manner
KRAV MAGA
It is a military self-defence and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces derived from a combination of techniques sourced from boxing, wrestling, Aikido, judo and karate, along with realistic fight training.
Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extreme efficiency. It was derived from the street-fighting experience of Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler while defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
Krav Maga Mumbai teaches that from the outset, the original concept of Krav Maga was to take the most simple and practical techniques of other fighting styles (originally European boxing, wrestling, and street fighting) and to make them rapidly teachable to military conscripts.
Basic principles
Like most martial arts, Krav Maga encourages students to avoid physical confrontation. If this is impossible or unsafe, it promotes finishing a fight as quickly and aggressively as possible. We teach this in our Mumbai center that attacks are aimed at the most vulnerable parts of the body, and training is not limited to techniques that avoid severe injury; some even permanently injure or cause death to the opponent.
Ideas in Krav Maga include:
- Simultaneous attack and defence
- Developing physical aggression (not to be confused with emotional aggression or anger), with the view that physical aggression is the most important component in a fight
- Continuing to strike the opponent until they are completely incapacitated.
- Attacking preemptively or counterattacking as soon as possible
- Using any objects at hand that could be used to hit an opponent.
- Targeting attacks to the body’s most vulnerable points, such as: the eyes, neck or throat, face, solar plexus, groin, ribs, knee, foot, fingers, liver, etc.
- Using simple and easily repeatable strikes.
- Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat in order to look for escape routes, further attackers, objects that could be used to strike an opponent.
- Recognizing the importance of and expanding on instinctive response under stress
Techniques
Krav Maga is a continuously evolving system (reflecting real-world experience) and so it is not clear cut to specify a universal curriculum, as may be the case for example within some eastern martial arts. However, of the major Krav Maga organizations worldwide, techniques are largely similar. This is available in Mumbai
Adopted techniques
Some of the key focuses of techniques in Krav Maga are—as described above—effectiveness and instinctive response under stress. To that end, Krav Maga is an eclectic system that has not sought to replace existing effective techniques, taking what is useful from available systems, for example:
- Strikes – as per karate and boxing,
- Take-downs and throws – per judo, aikido and wrestling
- Ground work – per judo and wrestling
Techniques taken from such systems have in some cases been modified to reflect the fact that their genesis is in a sport with rules, which limits effectiveness in real fight situations. Beyond this, Krav Maga has developed several supplementary techniques, as necessary.
Examples of techniques that were developed within the system include
Escapes from chokes and holds:
Empty-hand weapon defences (based on the premise that the individual who is attacked in e.g. a mugging situation, is most likely to be unarmed)
Sparring
In some organizations like Krav Maga Global (KMG), sparring is slow and light until the student reaches G2 level. This takes approximately four to six years, because rising one level in the Practitioner and Graduate categories takes at minimum half a year of consistent training.
Competition for civilians
Some Krav Maga organizations do not support a competition component, taking the stance that Krav Maga is not a sport. So-called “fighting” sports tend to operate under principles of using safe techniques, doing minimal harm, and consequently wearing down opponents and using other tactics supported by the “rules” of safe competition. At CATS Mumbai we follow the scientific methodology of teaching Krav Maga.