Secrets of the Martial Arts

Krav Maga is supposed to be a "get up to speed quickly on self defense in the real world."

Israeli troops need to be trained quickly and close combat is just a tiny bit of all the things you need to know as a soldier.

What is Krav Maga though anyway?

Depends on who is doing it or when they were doing it.

Some of the people had karate backgrounds, wrestling backgrounds, boxing backgrounds. Some have Judo and jiu jistsu backgrounds. So krav maga is really more of a generic term if you ask me.

In the combatant:extreme self defense DVD(http://www.comparestyles.com )

you can see that Moni Aizik has a judo/jiu jistsu background and so you will see his techniques will differ from others who had different backgrounds or teachers.

What you need to do if considering Krav Maga is don't fall for the Israeli army does it every day and it really works hype and actually check out the background of the techniques. Where did they come from? Have they really been tested? Sometimes the people formulating "krav maga" may really just be drawing alot from whatever foundation art they have...and the techniques they come up with end up being as good or as bad as the system they extrapolated the techniques from.

# posted by The guy @ 11:54 AM