Since November we started new classes in Yokohama. For the moment we run 2 hours every Tuesday evening but we plan to have more classes in the near future. However, students who registered in Yokohama can also train in Tokyo's studios if they want and vice versa. So, with one registration students can train in any of our studios.
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Here are some pictures of the knife workshop that we run on Sunday afternoon in one of Tokyo's beautiful park.
Knife is one of the most common weapon use in the street by aggressors, it is also one of the most dangerous weapon to defend against. Krav Maga Global technics against knife attacks are based on logic principles and are very effective but of course they require a lot of practice to increase the chances to implemented the defense successfully in a real life threatening situation. We finished the day with a realistic drill of defending surprise knife attack in low light condition (it was night already). Everyone did a fantastic job, the weather was nice and we had a great time. Thank you everyone for attending the workshop! Just come back from one week in Beijing where I trained with other regional instructors under the guidance of KMG's Global Team Instructor and Law Enforcement Instructor Balazs. Szabo.
A great week with some very good fighting sessions and great people. Friday 4 students passed their second level test. It was 3 hours of intensive practice; including a lots of punches and kicks toward all directions, defenses against attacks coming from all sides and defenses against kicks.
These students started Krav Maga about 9 months ago and have been training at least 3 hours per week since. It is quite impressive to see how much changes regular Krav Maga training can bring to your body, your coordination and fluidity of movement, your strength and flexibility. Next level test shall be in about 5 months. Good work guys! Keep training hard! Saturday and Sunday 9 and 10 of July we organized a week end seminar in Yokohama to practice all the first and second level technics of KMG curriculum. We trained 5 hours on Saturday and 5 hours on Sunday under a bridge which protected us for the rain and the sun. Such week end is the opportunity to review the technics in order to prepare for the level tests, and also it is the chance to spend time with Krav Maga friends in a different environment the this usual training studio. Great work everyone!
Friday May 27, 2016
At the occasion of Eyal Yanilov seminar in Beijing we also had an instructor update training with all the other KMG's instructors from the region. Krav Maga is a modern self-defense system and not a traditional martial art. Therefore, it continues to evolve according to new problems and experiences faced in the street or on the battlefield. These regulars instructor update are essential to make sure that KMG's instructors deliver the best of KMG's knowledges. Every Thursday night from 9.30 to 10.30pm it's the class for P1 level students and above. This class is meant to work on more advanced technics and prepare for the next level. It is also the class where we practice sparring with protective gears in order to better prepare for real life physical confrontation. Sparring is an essential part of Krav Maga but there is a minimum level required from the student in order to be ready for it and practice safely. Sparring is great and exciting and it takes your Krav Maga experience to another level.
Congratulation to my freshly graduated P1 level students. At KMG, Krav Maga level testing is taken very seriously. The test lasted for 3 hours, during which students had to demonstrate their knowledges and their ability to perform about 30 technics.
Now you've got your diploma in hand and you can prepare for the next level with more exciting Krav Maga classes. This is the reward of 6 months of hard training but it is still the beginning of your Krav Maga journey. Great work everyone! Attacker attacks with a straight low stick stab to the abdomen. Defense with moving to the live side: Deflect the stick with the left hand (hand defense) while moving your body to the left side (body defense), catch the stick with your right hand (control the weapon) while stepping to the left (out of the channel of attack) and kick the groin with your right leg (first counterattack), continue with a hand strike to the face (second counterattack), then catch the stick with 2 hands and disarm the attacker (neutralize the attack), scan and move away from the danger zone. It is also possible to move to the dead side of the attacker, in which case the defender executes the same principle of defense but in the opposite direction. Learning Krav Maga makes your safer. Here is another story showing how all the kicking and striking practiced during training can pay off when confronted to a real aggression in the street. In real life aggression there is no time to think and sometime the adrenaline can be so high that one doesn't even have the capacity to think anyway. The only defensive reaction one can have is the reflexive one, that means based on instinctive response or based on trained response. In Krav Maga, the defense system is based on instinctive responses. These instinctive responses are improved to create effective technics and then are combined with powerful counterattacks based on kicking and striking. The repetition of the defenses and counterattacks over and over again during training creates very effective responses that will be applied automatically, without thinking, when facing a real life aggression. This is what happened to this Krav Maga practitioner and it probably saved her life. Here is her stoty published March 10th by Krav Maga Academy (Oslo Fight Center) Krav Maga practitioner from Krav Maga Academy Oslo (Oslo Fight Center) had to defend punch and choke last week. Hi, everyone. I wish to share with you my experience regarding your Krav Maga training and how it might actually save you from a bad situation in real life. Tuesday, one week ago (March 2nd 2016) I was on my way home in the evening through the back allie where I live in Grønland, Oslo. I should say, this is a place where buying and selling of most drugs happen in the city. People of all ages, sizes and not least "all conditions" fluctuate here. Typically this hasn't been a problem, but on this day things took a turn in another direction. Normally there are 3-4 guys in the same spot around the clock selling to whomever wants something. They mostly stick to their corner and bother very few. However one of them decided to talk and approach me while I was walking, but due to music in my ears I didn't get what he is saying. I seen him talking to me but I choose to keep walking while removing my earplugs to hear if he would keep following me. He reached the right side of me and asks why I don't want to buy when I choose to be in the area. I see both in his gaze and posture that this time he has probably consumed a bit too much of what he was selling. I don't remember clearly what happened but he yelled something to me as he punched me in the face and I lost my balance backwards. It happens so incredibly fast that I cannot really comprehend what was happening before I felt the impact of the punch. Within what feels like less than a second, he grabs my throat, first with one hand, then the other hand slightly higher under my jaw. I feelt that one of his thumbs was squeezing the middle of my throat as he is trying to push me backwards. My first reaction was panic regarding what was happening and me falling backwards. The only thing I managed to do was to grab his hand while I kicked and kicked forward. He was at a distance where the only possibility was kicking forward. I hit him hard a couple of times in his groin and I was able to remove the hand squeezing my throat hardest. I hit him fairly well the last time because he let go and bent forward and down. I was afraid he would continue going for my throat so I hit him with my elbow in the back head/neck region before I ran away to the block where I live. Panic stayed a little while but when my mind calmed down and I ran through the situation again I thought "How did this turn out as well as it actually did?" I can honestly say that it didn't look at all like anything from a movie or from training either. Nothing looked or felt controlled. There were no Van Damme punches or high kicks. The first and the only reaction was to kick as much and as hard I could until I had the opportunity to get away. Now I understand why I train and what it can mean to me in the real world - the strength and opportunity to get out of a situation that could have ended with much worse way than with a black eye. - Written by Victoria |
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