Hey OJ! I’ve trained with the instructor that is opening the Krav Maga studio in Las Vegas. His name is Roger. San Francisco will miss him. YOU MUST GO! You may want to learn additional ground skills, but start out with Roger. Your understanding of Streetfighting and Self Defense will grow quickly.
Wow I must have put htis post up over a month ago but thanx for the reply. I was considedring taking his calss and am getting a little experince in Judo during th esemester at school. Not a terrible amount of experience but at least I know how to fall without hurting myself and how to do basic arm locks. Glad to hear that the instructor is good.
If you know of an instructor,please passon that information.If there is a school,i’d like to know that too.
Tan there is a guy doing BJJ in Sutherland at the Double Dragon Gym, sure he’s doing Thai as well
Chin you don’t know what you’re talking about here is some definitions below. KRAV MAGA is a very good art utilizing grappling, strikes. Kicks. Ground fighting. Out of all the arts it transfers most to real life street fighting. Not to mention fast to learn. Muay Thai lacks ground fighting and grappling, so if you couple it with judo or anther grappling based art you have a complete art. The second option would work if you want to spend a good 7 years learning it.
Muay Thai (mweye-tie)
Muay Thai, the most popular spectator sport in Thailand, is also sometimes called “the science of eight limbs” because practitioners use hands, elbows, knees, and feet to strike with. Though modern rules were introduced in the 1970s, which require participants to wear padded gloves similar to those in boxing, the legs are still bare and thus the primary offensive weapon of the Muay Thai artist is the shin kick. Basic strategy involves kicking the opponent repeatedly in the thighs to decrease their ability to move quickly or deliver kicks of their own, then getting in close to strike the head with the elbows and knees- attacks that few can perform as devastatingly as the Muay Thai practitioners. The Thai Kickboxer is known for being able to take incredible amounts of punishment since strikes are aimed at any part of the body. As a means of self defence Muay Thai, with its heavy use of knees and elbows, will enable a practitioner to use striking techniques at very close ranges where grappling techniques usually dominate. Similar Styles: Lethwei (Burmese Boxing) - Sport from Burma (now Myanmar) which emphasises attacks to the head.
KRAV MAGA (Israel)
(krahv-muh-gah)
“contact combat”
The techniques of Krav Maga were formed by Imi Lichtenfeld, an outstanding wrestler and boxer who modified his techniques for practical street fighting in order to lead a group of athletes who defended Jews against fascist thugs in Slovakia in the 1930’s. Lichtenfeld eventually wound up as the Chief Instructor for physical fitness and hand-to-hand combat for the Israel Defence Force where he taught his style of martial art- still taught to this day in the IDF as well as by the Israeli security forces and Israeli police (and a number of U.S. law enforcement agencies, including the FBI). Krav Maga is designed to be nothing but a practical means of street defence, one of the central concepts being that techniques should flow from a person’s instinctual reactions, rather than teaching the student to control their natural reactions as most martial arts do, and thus is learned more quickly than other martial arts. Also of note is that Krav Maga techniques are often learned from a position of disadvantage (lying down, limited ability to move) so that the student knows how to get out of a bad situation. Similarly, Krav Maga teaches the student how to use the techniques even under mental duress- such as in minimal light, surprised, or when under stress- because such distractions are often present in violent confrontations. Students are also taught defence against clubs, knives, and guns.