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| bio | website | aballs.com |
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| location | Seattle, WA | |
| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
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Pistol grip pump on my lap at all times
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answered | Quickly learning the full essentials of Krav Maga |
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Quickly learning the full essentials of Krav Maga My understanding is the military/police KM has a lot more hostage and counter terrorism training, along with more weapon defenses, along with things like how to fight and properly secure your weapon if an enemy combatant is attempting to take it. |
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answered | Is there a sport aspect to Krav Maga? |
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awarded | Popular Question |
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Jan 28 |
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Which martial arts focus on self defense? For the record, I prefer Krav Maga as a self-defense study. It incorporates many of the practical aspects of BJJ, Muay Thai, (kick) Boxing, as well as kicks to the balls, choke defenses, weapon defenses, and other likely real-world threat scenarios (home invasion, car jacking, fighting in the dark). Stuff that you just don't get with hard-sparring. |
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Jan 28 |
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Which martial arts focus on self defense? If you are going to train in self defense, then I agree with you 100% be well rounded. But I disagree with your assertion about college kids. My point: if you only had 1-hr total to teach someone something, a kick to the groin is more effective than anything else you could teach them in that hour. What else could you teach them that would be useful if they faced a thread. Also none of what you've touched on deals with other real scenarios, such as guns, knives, sticks, bats, bottles, cars, multiple attackers. This also relies on you being better than your attackers, which isn't a good plan. |
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Oct 6 |
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What are good martial arts for aging bodies? This isn't specific to your question, but have you looked at heavy weight training (anything by Mark Rippetoe)? I've found that proper heavy lifting techniques has gone a long way to help repair my bad knees (250lbs) person. |
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Oct 6 |
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Which martial arts focus on self defense? @Bushi: +1. Use it or lose it. |
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Oct 6 |
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Which martial arts focus on self defense? You make light of "ball punching" but it's much easier to teach a college freshman girl how to kick an attacker in the groin, then it is to teach the same girl how to grapple. Nothing is wrong with the martial arts you talk about (My personal background is MMA--Muay Thai, Submission Wrestling, and Dutch Cross Fighting [I trained with Mighty Mouse in WA]). But I think there are more effective, easier to learn systems, if you are specifically looking for self defense. |
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Oct 6 |
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Which martial arts focus on self defense? I think you make some cogent points about the necessity of hard contact, but wrt self defense, I would optimize for practicality/survivability over technique. What your advocating will make you a better overall fighter, but I believe striving to be a better fighter isn't the most optimal way to learn self defense. The problem with strictly sparring and competing, is the conditioning into a set of rules that don't necessarily apply. The US Military has gotten away from this, and moved towards a methodology of "training how we fight." |
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Oct 5 |
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Which martial arts focus on self defense? The point of hard-sparring, really is to know what it's like to get hit hard, and not shutdown. I agree with that. But hard sparring, competition isn't the only way to be put in stress situations. |
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Jan 31 |
awarded | Student |
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Jan 31 |
asked | Proper way to take care of boxing gloves and wrist wraps after use? |
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awarded | Supporter |
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awarded | Autobiographer |
