Wednesday, August 17, 2011

So is Krav Maga actually a style?

Usually when people dislike a certain style of martial arts they just call it a joke or shitty style, the thing with Krav Maga is that it's usually deemed as more of a hybrid self-defense system because it uses techniques from many different martial arts systems and doesn't have techniques that are necessarily original, but then again there are many different forms of karate that use similar if not the exact same techniques and they're still considered martial arts. To me Krav Maga is a martial art. In the Isreali army every healthy being is required to serve at least a year or two in the military, and Krav Maga was originally composed and designed by Imi Lichtenfeld as a way for Jewish civilians to protect themselves from the Nazis. As far as I know all the techniques in Krav Maga were studied and adapted into the system as Imi went around and studied multiple martial art systems. Hopefully I gave you some of what you're looking for.

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