I trained Krav Maga in Tel Aviv back in 2004 with some of the best. My best memory from this trip was when I sat in the sauna in Saviyon country club talking international affairs with some really high placed guys on a friday right before shabbath. And visiting the old city in Jerusalem. The arab vendors didn't bother us because I was in company of some scary looking Krav Maga instructors. Or eating charcoal grilled kebabs after training st the Tel Aviv market. I can keep talking memories from that trip forever. Israel is a wonderful place!

I'm lucky that I had krav maga at high school in Czech Republic and our teacher had krav maga certification from Israel... and he also teaches soldiers and police officers, he has 30 years of experiences from all kind of martial arts 💪💪💪💪

I was in the IDF years ago and our company commander was a former Krav Maga competitor. I love how in the video it's scenario based, like at 1:15 an abduction attempt. Kadima Hayalei Tzahal.

Love the idea of Competition for Krav Maga. Good way of separating cyber warriors and real warriors. Looking forward to having comps in Britain too.

i wont be messing with these guys, thats for sure...

I’d really like to see video of that exercise where team members are made to stand in a line and the dude at the back has to fight his way to the front while everyone else tries to stop him. It was described in a book by a former Duvdevan operator, and it sounded intense.

Good idea competition is a better way to measure your skills than only doing drills.

Great video

IDF Israeli Defence Forces I Salute you! and your krav Maga fighting style is Awsome! a no-nonsense aproach to street fighting suitable for anyone regardles of size, weight, height, and strength, Designed to take anyone down or knock-em out! rendering them unconcious. krav maga moto - if you cant hurt a bigger stronger guy during a fight no problem, aim to the softer target areas like throat, eyes, solar plexes, testicles, kicks to- knee caps kicks to inside thighs and so on. style is aggressive and easy to learn and easy to adapt. RESPEC! ISREAL I SALUTE YOU ! Cooljay...

I really need to learn this fighting system.

Good idea

With the armor, this looks much safer than kickboxing and Muay Thai sparring. Whenever I do kickboxing and MT sparring, I always get worried if I will get brutally injured, and when you get hit or kicked, it is indeed really painful...

nice and great

Shalom!

Nice video 👍

Totally Awesomeness =)

lol they look so agressive when they are fighting

Both English speakers are South Africans! Keen for my enlistment this year

Krav maga is good for self defense 👏

Pro-Israel always :)

1:14 lol the way they arrested him

Unless u allow head contact then it's all irelavent ! . I'm not saying everyone should do 200rounds of boxing but certainly 5 rounds would teach you the golden rule of chin in hands high . I know a west end of London ex boxer adapted judo and boxing to become what is today's Krav Maga in the 30s&40s so surprised the basic boxing concept of chin in hands high has been forgotten

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i love idf ♡♡♡♡♡♡

Very cool. What techniques and philosophical approach does krav maga say to use when dealing with children that throw rocks?

I remember Itay Gil (sorry I can't remember his rank). Maybe relative of Col. Oren Gil? I would like learn KM. We, women need a selfdefense technique to be safe today here. 👏👏👏⚘ Greetings.

I love how the idf decided to have competitions of km. That it's possible because the soldiers have two things: the nessesary skills to apply in a match, and balls to fight even if they can loose. This contrast with the commercial krav maga (any krav maga teached outside the idf, it doesn't matter if your instructor is an ex military or a certified instructor in israel, or both), that sistems never will prepare a student to preassure test his skills against a full ressistance opponent. If they do that the classes will be more difficult for the vast mayority of people beacause they'll have to put much more effort on the training in order to see results (apply the techniques under real preasure). If the commercial km does this things they will be risking themsefes to lose students (and money). The idf can't lose students, the soldiers can not skip the hand to hand combat if they are not interested in that. PD: note how many people from all ages starts and abandon the practice of combat sports in a short period of time (beacause hard training and non inmediate results, among other things). I'm not saying that self defense classes are easy, but in order to have more students (and earn more money) a lot of sistems changes their training methodology for others. Easiers but much less realistics. That's the reason because combat sports are far more superior for street defense than the 97% of self defense sistems (including km). They have really BIG limitations, but they're 0% bullshit.

LOVE you Israel 🇮🇱✡️ krav maga 👍✌️💯💯⚔️

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Krav Maga is NOT meant for show. its purpose is to do as much damage to the enemy as possible, breaking bones (and balls) with every strike.

Is it me or does that Sgt look like a bad ass Jonah Hill.

idf one of the best force in world

Duvdevan,..BOOOM!!!@#*#

They should be sparring bare knuckle with palm strikes if they want to make it realistic, and include grappling.

I thought Imi Lichtenfeld said there would never be a krav maga competition

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I almost always see KM practitioners insist that KM is not for competition, and that Sport KM is not true KM. Is there any truth to this? If so, is their a way to modify KM so that it can be for sport or must it be purely for the "street" situations?

Well I really do not like the competition part of it. The over safety only give you a relaxed attitude and does not promote true learning and training. However, the other incorporation self defense techniques and drills used with full gear do make military fighting more realistic. Instead of just target shooting. With the overall more of a stand up drills where both training partners being aggressive and submissive for safety purposes, you get a pretty good awareness how to shift from H2H to using your rifle for shooting scenarios and the necessity to do so.

or as i like to call it Opression-do

Since when does Krav Maga have competitions? It’s an art made for war. Most of what you learn can’t be applied for competition use.

in the protest to provoke the soldiers or throw stones they never do that i hope we won t have to fight among us

One of the rules of Krav Maga wasn't not to have competitions?

South African at 0:25 ?

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I really like Israel and it's self defence forces, but what the fook is that? 0:45

WAIT THEY HAVE THAI PADS???

Muay thai e Jiu Jitsu.

i can take them

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Why so much padding? I could understand if this was a civilian competition but for Soldiers this can be a hindrance. When I was a Soldier we never used a lot of protective gear. We used mouthpieces, groin protection, MMA gloves, and duty uniform for H2H. I've training Krav Maga for awhile to add to my other training but I've never seen the use in this type of heavily padded sparring.

Why I won't do krav maga: "it's a whole ideology of being aggressive and moving forward"

They look slow.

Sorry just never been a fan of Tournaments, when you put rules in place of reality is loses it effectiveness. Just my opinion

Compliance ruins the video

Funny that the IDF feels it needs this, when it has armed soldiers who almost solely fight innocent Palestinians... impressive I guess? 👏

unathletic movements make me nauseated. those kids looked uncoordinated or they dont care to practice

Lol what a joke

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lame

If only their politics were as profound :3

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