KRAV MAGA SELF DEFENSIVE TECHNIQUES
WHAT WILL I LEARN AT KRAV MAGA?
The cornerstone of Krav Maga is its focus on techniques and tactics that will work in real-world scenarios. Like mixed martial arts, the techniques you learn in Krav Maga are designed to be efficient and straightforward, but the focus is not on ring-fights but real-world situations without rules.
In a big city like Auckland, learning Krav Maga's practical self-defence techniques gives you security and peace of mind, which important to live your life to the fullest. It also gives you a confidence boost, builds mental strength and reduces fear in uncertain environments.
Self Defence Techniques for all Types of Fight Scenarios
The Krav Maga Global curriculum is an extensive system of tried, tested and proven self defence techniques. However, we can group the techniques can be grouped into the "families" below. Note that Krav Maga is not just about techniques, tactics are a huge part also.
DEFEND HAND STRIKES & KICKS
The most common attacks we need to defend against are hand strikes such as punches, and kicks . You'll be learning on day-1 to defending against these, and then to counter attack with a counter-striking combination to defeat the attacker.
Differentiator for Krav Maga:
- You will learn technique and tactics defend against multiple attackers who may be attacking from any direction. You won't learn this in combat sports or most other martial arts as they are 1v1 "rules based" competitions. This means they are very "linear" so defences are generally against attacks from the front.
DELIVER POWERFUL COUNTER_ATTACKING COMBINATIONS
Develop the ability to make fast and powerful striking combinations. Strikes form the basis of Krav Maga Counter-attacks:
- Strikes with hands, fists, fingers & elbows.
- Kicks with knees and feet.
Differentiator for Krav Maga - you will learn:
- Strikes in all directions (360 degrees) as attacker(s) may not just be in front of you.
- Striking with bare hands. You won't have gloves on in a street situation so this is realistic, and it is necessary to practice without gloves because it is very easy to damage your hands or wrist if you have never punched without gloves.
PREVENT & RELEASE GRABS & HOLDS
Grabs and holds are common self defence problems. With Krav Maga Global training you'll learn preventions and releases for any type of grabs and holds, including: chokes, headlocks, bear-hugs and nelson grabs:
- With the rise in popularity of UFC, headlocks have become common attacks for men.
- For women general grabs and chokes (standing and on the ground) are common scenarios requiring defensive skills.
Differentiator for Krav Maga:
- These defences are fully integrated in the system and most of the techniques are quite unique to Krav Maga so you won't find them in other systems, or as comprehensive in coverage, even if they have "solutions".
- Another key feature of Krav Maga Global is that techniques are design on the principle that as much as possible escapes should not do not rely on strength or size. Instead counter-attacks target "vulnerable targets" on the attacker. This is especially important for women's self defence.
DEFEND AGAINST CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
The ability to defend against weapon threats and attacks are essential for self defence.
- Weapon defences are fully integrated in the Krav Maga Global system from day 1. We start with knives being the most common issue, but as you progress through our curriculum you will learn to defend against threats and attacks with all types of weapons.
Differentiators for Krav Maga:
- Traditional martial arts usually only include weapon defences at higher levels and often they are traditional weapons that are not representative of modern day self defence situation.
- Combat sports like MMA, kickboxing or boxing won't teach you weapon defences at all so this is a big gap in their claim to be "good for self defence".
DEFEND AGAINST IMPROVISED WEAPONS
Improvised weapons such as "sticks" (example sporting equipment such as baseball bats) and chains are also very common so we also need to be able to defend again these sorts of items. This goes right back to the origins of Krav Maga where our founder Imi Lichtenfeld had to defend against mobs who would attack with items such as fence pickets.
Differentiator for Krav Maga
- Again this high-lights how Krav Maga the focus on self defence for realistic street situations, recognising that modern situation are very dynamic and adaptability is key to survival.
DEFEND ON THE GROUND
Krav Maga has comprehensive defences on the ground versus strikes, holds, chokes, headlocks and even armed attackers, to defend versus standing or ground based attacker(s).
Krav Maga Differentiator
- We recognise that the ground is a very dangerous place to be in a fight as you are very vulnerable to standing attacker(s). You could be "winning" the fight against one attacker and another kicks you in the head. Moreover, outside of the dojo you could be fighting on any sort of (hard and/or rough) surface. Therefore, our approach is first to try and prevent ending up on the ground, but if we do end up on the ground, to counter-attack with our Krav Maga ground techniques and get back to our feet as quickly as possible.
PROTECTING OTHERS
While we refer to "self defence", often situations arise when you are with others and it's not a case of "every person for themselves"
Krav Maga Differentiator
- Krav Maga Global training includes techniques and tactics to protect others. We call this "3rd party protection". You will learn techniques to look out for your loved ones, friends or VIPs who may be under threat or attack, or with you when you are under threat or attack. An important principle/tactic is "shielding" where you are dealing with the attacker(s) and motioning yourself between the attacker(s) and the VIP(s).
- Other systems may include specialise VIP protection components, but this is generally taught as a specialised topic for professional VIP protection. We also have specialised VIP protection courses, but protection of friends and family is fully integrated into the system at all levels.
ASK THE INSTRUCTOR
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