I just got promoted to Marauder in Tekken 7, I'm pretty sure I could beat any pro mma fighter in a street fight.

Me: What's the name of that Israeli martial art again ? My brother: Jew jitsu

Bas is the best mind in MMA and Martial Arts.. a real pleasure to watch. Top man

never heard Bruce Buffer say "this man is a krav maga fighter."

It's obvious that in the perspective of a MMA fighter, Krav Maga is mainly useful as complement for specific situations against armed or multiple opponents in a street fight. I don't think any reasonable Krav Maga instructor would tell you that Krav Maga prepares average people to handle well trained MMA, Kickboxing or Ju-jutsu fighters. Krav Maga was developed in a time where most people didn't train martial arts and te main goal behind it was to provide a basic form of military MMA training for Israelite soldiers and covert agents. Now it's practiced by average people around the world who are just looking for a simple and efficient form of self-defense against non-trained opponents (which are the majority in most cases). It's efficiency obviously depends on how hard an average person trains it and the quality of its instructor in terms of street awareness, knife/gun fighting, striking and grappling skills. Basically, one can say that the average dedicated Krav Maga student is like a MMA rookie, but more prepared for knife/gun fighting situations and specific street scenarios (fighting inside night clubs with bottles being thrown around, inside a car or a bus, etc). Conclusion: Comparing Krav Maga with sports MMA is like comparing Economics with Entrepreneurial Management. They're both related and both complement each other.

I did KM for 10 years, it was pretty cool, BUT, thereafter I went into full contact martial arts, mainly Muay Thai and Kyokushin Karate, and here I learned to become used to actual fighting. These are quite different from KM where you don't really do full contact proper fighting for minutes at a time. In KM we did a form of sparring but it's not a replacement for full on fighting.I suspect some KM clubs in Israel do full contact fights, which is what you want if you are truly to know yourself as a fighter.Without full contact fighting you cannot develop the ability to a) get used to being hit b) get used to staying calm whilst in a tense fight c) truly know how your body needs to move when in a proper fightPeople who have never done full contact will tend to over estimate their abilities. For example a common refrain is to think some super knockout strike will be 100% effective, it wont, you can give some people your best strike and they will shrug it off / avoid it

Bas,u are Awsome!...Totally reignited my love of Martial arts discovering the videos of your Pancrase days... Keep up the great work!...

Bas, you rule! I like to see your show on TV.

Bas is LITERALLY in "The Book" of Krav Maga!

I trained in both for a while but eventually went into full time MMA training. Krav teaches you the very basics of Boxing, Thai and Jiu Jitsu. Decided just to join an MMA gym and get the proper training from each discipline. I loved the mindset of Krav Maga like teaching awareness of surroundings and weapons self defence but I think in a straight up fight the MMA fighter takes it all day long.

Short and sweet, Bas is always straoght to the point.

This is a good answer for any new martial artist. Bas Rutten explains these two very legitimate ways to train, points out that nothing is stopping you from doing both of them at the same time. Although both systems are quite confident in their training methods, there is no dogma to the extent that you are disincentivised from doing other things.

I often get asked what the difference is between MMA and Krav Maga. I usually respond: "You know everything that's illegal to do in MMA? That's what we do".

Best answer I've heard anyone give about Krav or any other self defense oriented system. Train the self defense techniques, then gear up and use the sport methods to spar it.

Bas should be a mma fight commentator. He is both knowledgeable and funny.

This guy is one of the most valuable fighters in the world.

Respect.. You truly are a man of class, Bas. You also shared to us that it would be desirable to mix things up. Thank you.

thing is that a lot of self defence "schools" dont train realisticly.if u dont train full contact or at least 50% nothing is gonna work not even groin kicks or eye gauges.thats why full contact combat sports like muay thai and mma are always gonna be better even if they have restrictions in what u can do

That is a concise, correct and insightful answer.

God I love Bas he is a true legit martial artist and teacher

Did Krav for 1 year and was embarrassingly useless- constantly told how badass we were- realised I wasn’t when I started BJJ!!! Now blue belt and haven’t looked back

Certainly depends on the quality of the Krav Maga training. Just like other styles, some trainers will just slap the latest fad label on their style and charge you for substandard training.

Funny thing about this video is the guy Brayson who submitted the question is a Krav instructor now with a thriving gym in Spokane

Great Video

Wow, I've heard so many who totally debunk Krav Maga. I'll have to take a second look.

People don't realize he wrote the KMW combative striking modules and is friends with KMW founder Darren Levine.

Inside MMA was an incredible show and was a great way for me to get my MMA news and results back when I was broke and couldn’t afford to pay for pay per view. I remember it was around like 2008-2012 ish.

very diplomatic

Is there real sparring/rolling with contact? Do you sometimes have other schools or people come over for sparring/rolling? You have to spar or roll sometimes. It can't be all technique with 'dummy' partnering.

As far as a single system in of itself I have to agree with bas, krav is very street defense friendly where you learn all the nasty tactics not taught in other systems geared towards competition. Obviously muy Thai, hoy jiu jitsu, boxing, wrestling etc is very effective but as a single system in of itself Krav Maga

Short and to the point.

When Bas Rutten say it is good, then it is good. This man does not talk bullshit. And when anyone here talk against it, then he is the guy who talk bullshit. Rutten knows what he talk about, this man deserve some credits.

I would love to ask Bas how much Krav Maga he's trained in during his career?????

Krav is better for most people who work full time and want to avoid the injuries of MMA

Good point . One thing is for self defense on the street and and fighting on a cage against a trained fighter are two different worlds...

For certain you need both, depending on the situation. It's 3am and I don't feel like typing about the merits of KM, but as Bas said: if a BJJ practitioner has you in a hold and you do do something stupid like bite or try to poke his eyes then the chances are that they will break your arm or leg.

Krav Maga is not about defence. It's about aggression.

Some of the Krav Maga techniques I really like but I've seen some ridiculous ones from some instructors.

The boss has spoken!

The thing about stuff like eye gouging and kicking people in the balls is if you're in some life and death situation where you have to do them you'll just do them, there aren't any special sophisticated techniques of how to go for someone's eye.

Lol the "X country military uses this so it must be the best" argument makes me chuckle.

The best martial art is RUNNING.

I agree. Everything must be tested in an actual situation. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, period.

Bas explained it all...

I train by doing a lot of running. If I'm about to get into a fight I am going to run away and it's highly unlikely that anyone will catch me. And if they do my screaming techniques are second to none.

I think a lot of people agree that Krav is great for the street plus the MMA conditioning and the one on one concepts of MMA can all merge together.

Agreed. Gotta cross train. The biggest difference I see with self defense and MMA is the element of surprise. MMA or sparring, my partner or opponent knows we're in a fight. Self defense- someone approaching me in a threatening manner, I don't want them to know I have any knowledge of fighting until the attack is on them. Then its unleash with overwhelming force and finish them in less than 10 seconds. This is why you don't see a lot of traditional arts work in a cage- its not designed for that. That said, I believe sparring and grappling are incredibly important for your development- static techniques that focus on groin strikes, throat hits, gouges, limb destruction, they are great- but you also need to know what its like getting hit and having to fight someone in order to make that stuff work.

MMA as used in the American context refers to fighting focused on competing in UFC and therefore training under such rules. Krav Maga is always a life and death situation no rules. You cannot compare sport to life and death. Fighting with out rules Krav Maga is the best in this context.

Everyone is an expert. LOL.

Cyril Figgis: Hey will I get to learn karate? Sterling Archer: Karate? The Dane Cook of martial arts? No, ISIS agents use Krav Maga.

Guys, before you criticize Bas Rutten, he DID say MMA wins in a fight.

Awareness is the difference. An mma fighter will not think about a concealed knife or gun. Also an mma fighter won't think about getting jumped by opponents buddies. However the mma fighter has practiced pain tolerance and stamina. Both are mixed in Defendu Tudo.

Bas is the greatest

As a Krav guy I must admit that MMA fighters are capable of beating more than one guy because of their overall fitness and impact conditioning. But so far as weapon defense Krav has it. Combine the two.

I am curious to know if El Guapo classifies Systema under Bullshido.

I doul highly recommend to do together with any kind of Martial Art. It is very important to learn about your phyisical abilities and about distance while with sparring other people. Krav Maga alone will not help you to defend yourself.

That is it, if Bas says it works I am taking it

I think so many of these so called "Krav Maga"gyms"popping up all over the place, bare very little in resemblance to what is being taught to the soldiers in the I.D.F.. That is the issue..So Bas's explanation is about right..And also KM Is a particular fighting system(incorporating many different MA skills+all of the illegal ones of course(so as to get the job done!).

how do you feel about kali

Bas is as legit as they come.

Sorry, Bas: you're wrong. In order to learn to fight, you have to FIGHT--you need full speed, full contact sparring and you don't get that in Krav Maga. Without this sparring, you'll never develop toughness and the ability to apply techniques in real situations. That's why all UFC fighters all come from backgrounds in wrestling, BJJ, judo, or kickboxing.

I guess he meant they are "ON " the attack 24/7

I always feel that people who say 'MMA guys would beat Krav guys' are kind of missing the point. I mean, of course they would. Krav is mainly meant to get yourself out of a dangerous situation, either by de-escalating the situation or by countering an attack and then getting the hell out of there after throwing at most three punches and a kick to create an opening to run. It's not meant to lead to a prolonged fight, and if you do end up in one, you're basically fucked, especially if it's against multiple people. MMA, by contrast, is meant to be used in prolonged fights. Escaping isn't the object, but defeating your opponent within a specified rule set is. You're always in open combat, and always focused on the one person you're fighting. If you put practitioners of both in a room and tell them to fight, then probably the person who's always training for just such a situation is going to come out on top. All of that said, I'd rather not get into a fight with either a well-trained MMA fighter or a well-trained Krav practitioner. Either would demolish me.

As with all Martial Arts, make sure the school you're looking into is legitimate. Some things to watch out for are these: #1They don't let you try out for free, #2 They encourage you to beat your attacker after he/she is unconscious/incapacitated (which then legally makes you the attacker), #3 They encourage you to stay and "teach them a lesson" even after you can get away, #4 You never spar (ask the instructor about it before deciding) or spar dangerously, #5 Most or all of the high-ranking students (Red Belt or above) have very sloppy strikes which the instructor never corrects, and/or can't teach them to strike correctly, #6 They encourage "flashy" and/or impractical techniques and strategies for self defense. Lastly #7 They either do not exercise/ very rarely exercise, or they do very dangerous exercises like jumping squats when they know the student has bad knees hips "suck it up wimp!" ect, won't let students take a break when they have asthma, heart problems ect. If this doesn't apply to the school you attend, then you might have a good one. But there are other things to watch out for. The biggest question is *Will this school get you to where you want to be?*

why do they call it Krav McGraw is it because we were exposed to Tim McGraw and really screwed up our ability to say Maga?

There aren't that many Krav Maga fighters. Because Krav Maga is made for self defense, for you to walk the streets knowing how to defend yourself anywhere and use anything to defend yourself against any type of attack.

Krav doesn't seem to be a fighting style as much as it is a throw something completely devastating to the opponent so you can run off and survive with your life. MMA is more about having a full blown fight.

Topper en realistisch! 👊

What I love about these comments in response to your statement is that most of these people I guarantee have zero military experience. "Nah, that Krav is crap against MMA" Oh really? Let's see you go to Gaza with your MMA and a Rifle. Let's see where that gets you.

Ahh I love Bas - but this is going in his professional Losses column

Krav maga is like a three week crash course on fighting. Not self defense, fighting. Get a can of mace for self defense

What do you guys think of systema, legit or bullshit? I don't know if you read your comment section but I would like to know your opinion on systema as well Bas.

There's always some new fresh trend in martial arts and there are always unscrupulous cheats who are willing to take advantage of stupid people trying to follow a trend. For the last 5 years or so, there have been Krav Maga schools popping up all over the place here in the US, and most of them totally suck and are completely phony. Most of them are on par with Rexkwondo from Napoleon Dynamite. 30 years ago, it was all about ninjas and ninjitsu, then 5 years later, kickboxing/muay thai become the hot thing with all of Van Damme's movies, then came Seagal and all of the sudden everyone starts taking Aikido, then UFC came out and Gracie kicked the shit out everyone and Juijitsu was all the rage. Then it finally dawned on people, no one technique is superior to others, all have their strong points and weak points, so people just used what worked and MMA was born. However, from the way people describe Krav Maga it almost sounds more like a women's self-defense course at the YMCA, people clawing at eyes, kicking each other in the crouch, open hand strikes so don't have to break a nail while making a fist, using a purse as a weapon, that sort of thing. I've even seen so-called Krav Maga schools reselling the same old debunked bullshit martial arts crap like pressure point attacks, chi moves, death blows and other phony super power movie garbage. Make sure to thoroughly research the credentials of any school before giving them any money.

his logic is a bit flawed. the Krav Maga system is not the best system because they teach it in Israel. if anything, they teach it in Israel because it is the best system.

yes

Krav Maga uses techniques from lots of martial arts to use in a real life self defence situation. Along with disarming people with weapons. You don’t take Krav Maga to learn to fight, you take it to learn to defend yourself that is the difference between it and MMA

Has any Krav Maga guy won a ufc title of Vale tudo or anything?

"Krav maga is the best because they teach it to the soldiers in Israel, so it HAS to be the best." Wow, such a logical explanation. "I go like DIZZZ, and then like DOTTTT, and then like DIZZZZ and then POPOPOPOPOP!

The reason it's so effective( and also disliked by some) is because it steals the most effective moves from all forms of combat. The point is to disarm, or defend yourself with finishing to main or kill your opponent. Almost every combation includes Nut shots, eye pokes etc that used with BJJ and boxing is not allowed in sport MMA but in a street fight I'd rather have all the tools rather then a limited set

Correction Baz they aren’t under attack 24/7 they are the ones attacking 24/7 get it right🙄

Show me actual evidence that it works

People acting like he said the N word or something lol He was giving an opinion on Krav Maga.

Is he getting mixed up with KAPAP?

Find out what is outlawed in MMA and learn those techniques!! A bit of Krav M. can't hurt either.

Spetsnaz wins

Don't get me wrong but... "Krav Maga is the best self defense technique because Israel soldier train it and Israel has the best army in the world. They are under attack 24/7" and "Their weapon defense program has really good stuff" - Usually their opponent are children, teenagers, women and handicapped people. - Considering how many IDF soldiers got either killed or wounded badly by total beginners with no military experience and using small kitchen knives...that doesn't work in really like. Same thing for firearms. There is no such a thing as a "block and disarm technique" in real world. -"The strongest army in the world". Lol...they have barely 150.000 active personnel, 465.000 reserver personnel and strongly depend on foreign support to barely survive and justify their existence. Just to give you the possibility to compare it to a really strong army: The US has 1.380.000 active, 811.000 reserve ; the EU 1,823,000 active, reserves and potential reserves in terms of several millions; Russia 1,013,628, 2,572,500 reserved. And I don't even want to touch the tech and budget matter. Israel could be eaten for breakfast and digested before launch.

Aikido is the best,,,,,,, little old people can chuck loads of people about and even make it look like they are flinging themselves through the air almost like magic :)

How much they bay you to make this commercial

Are some people really debating here between Krav Maga and MMA? Krav Maga itself IS street version of MMA. Why? Because it encompasses and adopts every effective techniques from every arts out there to use it. It's tailored towards street application. Krav Maga adopts techniques from all arts, just like MMA. Krav Maga adopts groin kicks from techniques from Muay Thai and kickboxing but tailored towards people's nuts, it adopts hand strikes from boxing and Muay Thai, ground defense from BJJ and Wrestling. Go look up the history yourself. Creator of Krav Maga was a former boxer and wrestler but he wanted to tweak it to be effective towards streets and made it into a system that is open to adopt any effective techniques even till this day, unlike bullshit arts like Wing Chun, Baguazhang, kung fu, or bunch of karate styles(except kyokushin) where they just rely on their grandmasters learnings. Now if you fuckheads are wondering what will happen if best Krav Maga fighter and best MMA fighter fought? It will not happen. But even if it did, MMA fighter will have an advantage due to the fact that MMA fighter had lot of full contact sparring experience but result will vary depending on who successfully executes their plan first because it's as stupid as saying pure boxer vs pure wrestler. We've seen pure boxing champ beat pure MMA champ(Ray Mercer vs Tim Sylvia) and also pure MMA champ beat pure boxing champ(Randy Couture vs James Toney). Both systems are deadly and respectable in their own ways. I prefer to train MMA or Muay Thai first to gain all the full contact training and conditioning aspects of it while learning Krav Maga on the side. I was a former Muay Thai practitioner and in my gym, lot of BJJ, MMA, and Krav Maga practitioners have learned from my gym as well as shared their specialty techniques from their respective arts. Only ignorant fucks disrespect other effective combat systems. Before Bruce Lee introduced JKD, lot of people were one dimensional and made fun of the concept of "jack of all trades, masters of none". Now it turns out jack of all trades is the best solution for anything, whether it's fighting, business, any type of engineering, etc.

Krav Maga is great for army professionals (especially in Israel), but not for civilians. Why? Because a soldier trains to kill. Israeli soldiers are trained to walk until their legs die. They do many pull-ups, sprints, cary fellow soldiers on their back. To sum it up: they are fit like athletes. Krav Maga is just one of several parts in their arsenal of defense and offense. When you are Joe Sixpack, working in an office, you lack vital reflexes. You never learn how to fight under pressure. Krav Maga schools in Europe rip you off, and give you a false feeling of confidence. On top of that, they only teach parts of the original Krav Maga. The specific (and deadly) military parts are not included in European and American training programs. If you are a young lion in an elite unit like Sayeret Matkal, or Golani, then Krav Maga is the best self defense system you can train in. But as a civilian, I would stick to boxing and MMA. Why? Because you'll learn to fight under pressure. I'm an amateur boxer myself. I don't know flashy moves. But I do respond very fast to any unforeseen movement. Whether right in front of me, or from the side. This is what civilian Kravists lack entirely. I twice participated in a seminar. All of those ground moves were new to me. But it was all simulation. Then we had to stand in line, and punch a guy holding a big body pad. When it was my turn, I hit that thing so hard, the pad fell to the floor and the guy grabbed his gut in agony. This is the difference between full contact martial arts and all the other stuff.

best answer on the topic I have heard so far. Baz closes the book on this question , IMHO

So people on here are arguing that krav would be better in a street fight or a fight against 2 or more people, others say no way mama training is better... only way to settle is one guy training krav for 3 years or so against a guy training in mama for same period of time, who wins??? Yep.

mma is for competition where you are fighting one other person inside a ring with a referee and rules. krav maga is for self defense whether yourr fighting one person or a group of people and there are no rules. you do not learn weapon defense in mma, you do not learn dirty fighting in mma, ypu do not learn awareness and evasive skills in mma. I look at like this, krav maga is mma for the streets and mma is for inside a ring. its foolish to really compare the two because many of the techniques and styles are the same. every single mma ufc fight win ive ever seen used something we learn in krav. I think the only difference in mma is the conditioning and thats it. at our school we have the krav room, kici boxing room and mma room. mma focuses more on conditioning and jujitsu and wrestling where as everything else such as boxing, judo, wrestling , jujitsu etc are all covered in krav. I guess it just depends on the school you go to and what the instructors expect and teach. our instructors are militant and our training is brutal.

if you want to defend your self, buy a gun, and carry it legally.

Diplomatic answer. Thought Bas would have shot down Krav Maga being as he was a Pancrase champ.

I LOVE this man.

Isreal under attack 24/7 🤣🤣🤣what reverse universe is he living on because it certainly isn’t ours

bas should correct his words to: "they attack 24/7".

There exists three versions of Krav Maga. Military Krav Maga ( The Real Deal and the best) , Policiary, Civilian. Now the problem with Krav Maga is that the schools usually teach the Civilian kind and that many of these schools dont spar much or practise on real life situations for it to work you need good instructors. This is why Krav Maga is not the best option but at as an introduction to martial arts it's ok.

Very fair assumption.