Thankyou!

In a real fight you don't get to decide how you react. If you spar this weekly basis then its what will happen, if you dont then its a waste of your time.

***** Krav Maya?

real techniques are raw, ugly and violent

High kicks also increases the risk of your enemy catching your foot...

Yeah, I would never try a high kick against some in a real fight....

John Meyer High kicks are risky yes. I wouldn't just go in throwing them all over the place, but I know if I can land a spinning hook kick on the side of someone's head that they're going to sleep for a while. If something were to drag on, I might try to set it up.

Th3MAgg0t High kicks can be devastating when you're good at them... but still, they are more predictable than lower kicks. When you're going in with one or two lower kicks, followed up with some punches, then you could consider throwing in a high kick. But it's all about the circumstances: Is the floor slippy? Do i have the right clothing? Do I have the space to move? etc... The reason why krav maga doesn't teach the high kicking is: low kicking works always, even with low skill lvl, hard-hitting-high-kicking on the other side requires very high skill level. Especially people with low skill lvl tend to try high kicks cause they "think" they can do it if you teach it to them. This results in people slipping over the place, or landing high kicks which are more likely a little snap than a devastating blow. But you're right... WHEN you hit a good high kick, it's pretty much over.

TheLordofComments Yep, I agree with everything you said. The other thing is adrenaline. It can wreck your coordination. This is a major reason why KM focuses on trying to keep things simple. Like I said... if it were to drag on I "might" try to set it up. I'm definitely not saying I would. And yeah... set it up. You can't just throw it out there. Like you said, too obvious. The thing is that you can be just as devastating with a safer kick to the knees, groin etc... I'm aware of that. That's just another reason to keep them below the belt.

yavuz kul are you idiot?

yavuz kul almost girl just did runaway or scream. theres nothing rules on the street i tried to intercept my opponent before they did ahead, i wont take risk you just have 1 life

Zainul Urban man ok just do what you want if he have gun or maybe knife its ok but fist to fist... its just girl doing that

yavuz kul sorry do you mean "he has"? not he have.....did you learn about grammer before?

^^^ *grammar

+John doe no,dude. krav maga is not just kicking the nuts.

@@ElisabettaKohen From what I've seen, Crav Maga is real self defence for situations people (especially women) will find themselves in.

Ndejo q eres a la verdad mamador cuando y donde?

IF by "great" you mean "easily handled" I agree.

i thought that too... maybe if you don't use full force, then it'll only be a KO. But it’s still freaking dangerous.

+Magi V its simple, don't go around picking fights and you wont be punched in the back of the neck by a krav maga master :-) its not a sport, its designed to neutralise an attacker using whatever force is deemed necessary

Michael Gilbert​ Yeah, but you don't want to accodentally kill them if should come to a fight. That's why I thought what they advised here is quite dangerous.

+Magi V True, but if i have a choice between accidentally killing an attacker or being killed, I'm going to live with the guilt. In Aikido I believe there it is more important than in KM to hurt your attacker as LESS as you have to, I would prefer him to leave the area injured and not killed but it is what it is and you must protect yourself.

+BADALEX Better to be judged by 12 instead of being carried by 6.

l'ho imparato la settimana prima di Natale a lezione di MMA ;) e si, la cosa migliore è "aggrapparsi" all'avversario,ma se non hai un totale deficiente di fronte ti ha gia tirato un calcio nella gamba d'appoggio prima che tu ti possa avvicinare!

If you've got one foot advanced, do as shown above. If you don't and your adversary is becoming uppity and threatening take a step back with one foot, don't worry about showing backbone, try to deescalate, and if that doesn't work, well... you've got one foot back and the other one advanced, so you can guess where I'm going.

drh kleinert I don't think there are. I'm new to KM but it seems like there aren't. My instructor has taught me a few Muay Thai kicks though. Side spinning kicks can certainly reach the head, although you need tons of flexibility, which I don't have :p

Austin DeLaRosa Isn't it dangerous since you can lose your balance? Ive tried to do that since I indeed noticed I can kick with more strength but I feel like it can be a bit dangerous.

you need to wait because it's not self-defense if you attack first

charge at them with a kick to thebackt leg and then a hit to the face

lern wrestling, sambo or bjj

Groin kick then upper cut! Boom! :)

Thankyou very much! I'll have some fun with this... ;)

+Kieran R so.. you're little sister is taller than you?

jake shuttlesworth No because I have no little sister. However I am taller than your mother when she's on her knees in front of me.

Kieran R i dont have a mother. I'm a sentient android.

Erin Murphy push kick definitely takes experience. I wouldn’t want to get caught with an adversary getting ahold of my leg.

You can always sprawl when you see them going for your leg. But will turn into a ground fight.

what i did once when my leg was caught is that i just jumped in and hit at the guy...both his hands were occupied holding my foot

Soon to be a martial artist but a free runner (parkour) here, if you're outnumbered you need speed, you have to be the fastest. You also need to try to get your opponents in a line like behind each other so you're not surrounded, it's easier if they're blocking each other. Saw it in a video hope it helps though.

@@smarks-1160 just do hapkido

A firearm.

jewpacabra1632 It's useful if you need to push someone away. I guess you might even push them hard enough you can drop them to the ground. You can also inflict pain in his abs and stomach.

it's italian

jeffdoeskungfu Hahaha! God damnit Bobby!

You wouldn't have seen them fight you clown! KM is not a martial art, it's a combat system

that means they don't know how to fight. but thi crap doesn't work. it only works in choreographed demonstrations. in real life it works against unskilled opponents.

KRAV MAGA WORKS!!! It's probably the most effective combat system. it can't be tested in a ring because it was created for street confrontations in order for people to know how to defend themselves in real dangerous situations! Luckly I've never been in a situation like this, but I know two people, first one: a friend of mine who is one of the most advanced student of our gym, defend his boss (female) from a guy who was trying to assault her getting out from work. Second, a girl from our class defend herself from a dude that attacked her while she was coming to train after getting out of school (which its a couple of blocks from our gym) she came to the gym running asking for help, we went to check out and the dude was still there on the ground, then we called the cops! KRAV MAGA WORKS!

Luis Coley it works against completely unskilled untrained people. but anything works against unskilled untrained people. street attacks are hardly very dangerous situations most of the time. the attackers are unskilled and easy to put down. i have been in many many street fights, confrontations, attacks. but once in a while the attacker is a trained person, and with krav maga you are sol.

rohadt Anyad in most cases, the attackers dont attack - unless they think the odds are stacked in their favor. telling people street fights are not dangerous, is.. well dangerous.. Maybe a veteran like you, with a lot of street-wit manages well in those situations, but most of humanity does not fall in that class - most of them have no experience beating the crap out of someone. Those people need to be trained in a safe environment, which is a real gym - and they want to be trained systematically, with techniques that rise their chances in self defense situations. You have to start somewhere. As someone, seen a gym from inside - both as student, as well as instructor - as someone also worked in security, and having had street situations.. i can only recommend those "normal" folks to visit a gym from inside and not a youtube place where the knowledge of a youtube-warrior cannot be coinfirmed. everybody shoudl bear in mind that a training sequence, is not a drill, and a drill is not sparring, and sparring is not competition, and competion is not a real fight. those are all different things. This is not a real fight recording - if you would record a real fight, everything would be too fast, techniques hard to distinguish and no one could learn from it.

uskmanj let me correct you "in krav maga _I_ am fighting like an animal, as i am in high risk security" -- You have not the faintest idea how other people outside your gymsphere fight. You have also no idea how people training other martial arts fight in their gyms if youre honest. All you can know, is what you saw with your own eyes. There are boxers fighting "like animals" (what was the name of the guy biting someones ear off during a boxing match?) but that does not make them a winner on the street. What makes you a winner is yourself - your experience, if youre in security - you gain a lot of experience, that is what gives you an edge. Thats what keeps you calm the next time... and if you remain calm, you do the right thing. Self conficende building is therefore part of the game. but it should be founded on stuff that works in practise. In security/doorman situations - you have to avoid groundfighting (the only trick those MMA apes can do) because you are almost always dealing with more than a single attacker... and they kick your head when you go to ground. At least thats the presumtion you have to adopt in that real life street business. A security guy, prefers to stay mobile and move quickly. Hint to all the youtube wiseguys/trolls: Experience is not gathered on the internets - or by beeing too arrogant to look open minded at a different art/fighting style than what youre currently practising.

+Joseph Kennedy it is not about how fluid it looks, more about how well it works.

JKDROB I would agree and krav maga incorporates basic intrinsic applications. It's an adaptive system and I therefore wouldn't call it a martial art. Yes It's martial but It's also about money krav maga should be taken as a fast adapting combat system but It's not It take's many years to get to Instructor level. Many krav maga school's are a huge money business charges student's upwards 200 dollars's a mouth that's ridicules. I got caught in a system called shaolin kempo karate and was paying close to 200 a mouth huge mistake. Thing is I have also trained in arts like shotokan for 30 bucks a month and can get many of the same results as krav maga in less time. Karate has excellent kicks it teaches groin kicks, leg snaps, knee breaks many of the same basic things as krav maga but without all the hype and extra movement. Make it a reliable system something that can be mastered In a year are two and I'd reconsider tell then krav maga is just a bunch of hype without the same spirit and history of traditional MA's.

Getting ripped off with fighting schools is a common problem - practically anyone can invent some martial art and teach it, write some bullshit about it being a family art handed down and charge people for some occult variation of common Karate, TKD, a bit of Wing-Chun mixed in and a few BJJ techniques for good measure, with a bit of luck and some talent for theatre it'll take a while until people figure out you're a phony. Similarly, many "trendy" self-defense systems (which is a more appropriate term than Martial Art when talking about KM, since it's not about artful movements but more about quick and effective self defense) or martial arts can be quite expensive, because there's a huge demand and a much smaller supply - that's basic market dynamics. Learning a few basic techniques to defend yourself in emergency situations shouldn't be expensive, but if one brand name becomes popular that's what happens.

Cutt the bullshit, sensei big mouth. You can have all the hearth and desire to winn but if the other guy had technique you are going to lose. You will rather put money on someone swinging his arms than someone who is trained.? Wow! That looks like a great way to eat a nasty counter punch. Coming all out on great counter puncher like Machida is sure way to ground

Julio Victor Gonzalez Hablan italiano, es algo jaja :p

hilarious. wrong, but hilarious.

***** Are you kidding, just because you wear military pants you can fight. Police have more hand to hand than any IDF does. Those guys are a joke, the pirates in africa threw them overboard without much resistance.

***** I was in Krav Maga for one year, it is a very basic self defense program. The sparring is very limited and a lot of the knife defenses are gonna get you killed. Try the SPEAR SYSTEM and add it to MMA.

I would agree that law enforcement actually fight more often and in closer circumstances. However, most LE programmes don't actually teach enough. Krav is actually very similar to SPEAR. I teach SPEAR and practise Krav and they cross over really well. I've also done a few other martial arts but found Krav to be the most effective and realistic. You have to remember that Krav is meant to be taught to everyone. MMA isn't and there are rules. SPEAR is excellent and the realisations that come from it are the same as from Krav. Also don't forget that LE are more bound by complaints, rules and others who judge our actions. Military aren't...

Nick Birch How do you like teaching the Spear System? Can you earn some money doing it? I am in security as a supervisor and I am looking to teach the Spear System in NJ. I like what I see, can you earn with it,

Edmond Tarverdyan Well if your life is at risk cowardice shouldn't be your biggest concern.