Thursday evening, practicing push kick. Push kick, also called defensive front kick, is a great technic to create distance or keep the aggressor away from you; Lifting the knee as high as possible and pushing the hips forward while extending to leg in an explosive motion is the key to generate power behind this kick. Look at this scene in Ong Bak 1, when Tony Jaa is executing one of the best push kick of martial art movie history. Straight to the face! You can feel the power. Beautiful!
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Monday night. A good class on striking review, concluded by an intensive drill. Great job everyone! Women Only first class of the year. It is great to see the combativity in the eyes of those girls. This is exactly what you want to develop by training Krav Maga: combativity and determination. Combativity and dertermination combined with a certain level of technical and tactical knowledge is the best way to come safe out of an aggression.
By training Krav Maga you can truly express and develop your combativity and determination and release your aggressivity in a positive way. A stick is a very dangerous weapon, especially because it gives the stick holder the advantage of having a long reach. The most dangerous distance against an aggressor holding a stick is between 2 and 3 meters.
If you stand at 3 meters or more the best is to try to run away, if the situation allows you to do so, e.g if you don't have a third party to protect. If you stand at less than 3 meters and you cannot run away, the best is to close the distance in order to break the reach advantage of the stick holder. In that case burst forward while protecting yourself and meanwhile counterattack with a strong punch to the face of the attacker, continue with more attacks and disarm the attacker. That was the last class of the year. Great job everyone! See you in January! In the streets troublemakers rarely hang out alone, so once you got caught into a fight with one of them you must be ready to deal with more than one. In Krav Maga defending against multiple aggressors is an essential part of our training. Today we worked on defending an arm bar choke while keeping the second aggressor at distance with kicks. Great job everyone! You are on your back and the attacker is kneeing on your side and choking you. You have to react quickly otherwise you're going to pass out in few seconds.
Pluck one of the choking hand to release the pressure on your throat; with your other hand push the attacker at his windpipe in order to create some distance; then insert your knee against the attacker's abdomen and push him away: continue with multiple kicks to the face; stand up and escape. Thursday noon, Krav Maga class for women only. Punching and kicking the pads, defending attacks and striking back.. It is great to feel the energy of the participants, Nice job everyone!
Monday night working on side kick as a counterattack after an outside defense against a punch coming from the side. The side kick is a powerful kick; possible targets are the ribs, the knee, the groin or even the head. Keeping good control of the balance is very important. The side kick is a good counterattack after an outside defense against a punch or a knife stab coming from the side. Knife is one of the most common weapon use by aggressors in the street. A Knife is a extremely dangerous weapon because it is easy to handle, so stabs and slashes can be done in a very fast motion. As much as possible a defender should use objects to protect himself against the knife attacks. Common objects such as bags, chairs, even a laptop computer can be use as a shield to protect oneself against knife attack and increase the chance of survival. The shield is usually held with 2 hands to block the attack therefore counterattacks shall be done with kicks; to the groin, to the knees or to the abdomen. This short video displays the drill that we practiced Thursday night to summarize the class on this subject. This drill is effective, fun, exiting and exhausting. |
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