


It also teaches mental toughness, using controlled scenarios to strengthen mental fortitude in order for students to control the impulse and not do something rash, but instead attack only when necessary and as a last resort. It may also cover physical and verbal methods to avoid violence whenever possible. Training can also cover the study and development of situational awareness to develop an understanding of one's surroundings, learning to understand the psychology of a street confrontation, and identifying potential threats before an attack occurs. Recognizing the importance of and expanding on instinctive response under stress.Developing muscle memory for quick reaction in fight.Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat in order to look for escape routes, further attackers, or objects that could be used to strike an opponent.Using simple and easily repeatable strikes.Targeting attacks to the body's most vulnerable points, such as: the eyes, neck or throat, face, solar plexus, groin, ribs, knee, foot, fingers, liver, etc.Using any objects at hand that could be used to hit an opponent.Attacking pre-emptively or counterattacking as soon as possible.Continuing to strike the opponent until they are completely incapacitated.Developing physical aggression (not to be confused with emotional aggression or anger), with the view that physical aggression is the most important component in a fight.Students learn to defend against all variety of attacks and are taught to counter in the quickest and most efficient way. Attacks are aimed at the most vulnerable parts of the body, and training is not limited to techniques that avoid severe injury some even permanently injure or cause death to the opponent. If this is impossible or unsafe, it promotes finishing a fight as quickly and aggressively as possible. Like most martial arts, Krav Maga encourages students to avoid physical confrontation. US Air Force and British Royal Air Force security personnel during Krav Maga training. In addition, there are two types of this martial art one type is used in the Israeli security forces and one type is in civilian use. There are several organizations teaching variations of Krav Maga internationally. Closely related variations have been developed and adopted by Israeli law enforcement and intelligence organizations. Krav Maga has been used by the Israel Defense Forces' special forces units, security forces and by regular infantry units. Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing aggression, and simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers. įrom the outset, the original concept of Krav Maga was to take the most effective and practical techniques of other fighting styles (originally European boxing, wrestling, and street fighting) and to make them rapidly teachable to military conscripts. In the late 1940s, after his emigration to Mandatory Palestine, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF. It was derived from the street-fighting experience of Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler, while defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, during the mid-to-late 1930s. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extreme efficiency. "contact combat") is a military self-defense and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces derived from a combination of techniques sourced from Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Aikido, Mixed Martial Arts, and Karate. Krav Maga course at an Israeli Paratroopers school in 1955īoxing, Wrestling, Judo, Aikido and Karate
