MacDonald Academy of Martial Arts
Kenpo Karate, Krav Maga, and Fitness for the Boston / Watertown area
This is not Krav Maga, but Krav Maga borrows the Get Up technique from BJJ. While not everything Stephan Kesting shows falls in line with our approach to self-defense (specifically the particulars of Back Position, Front Kick, and Transition Kick), this is one of the better videos I’ve seen demonstrating the technical stand-up.
We’ve made it through the first rotation of the groundfighting section of Fight Class! Thanks to all who attended. We’ll be circling back to this range of fighting soon enough, but I wanted to document what we worked on this go-round. Below is the list of techniques, some of which link to videos. Not all the videos perfectly represent what we did, but they’re close enough.
Here are some old posts that relate to the subject:
Date & Time: Saturday, November 17, 10am – 1pm
Cost: $180 (includes approved fight gear); FREE if you already have *approved* fight gear
Prereqs: Krav Maga Advanced students only
Note: Please form your mouthguard before the seminar
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The Fight Seminar scheduled for Saturday, 11/3, has been postponed. Please click here for the new date.
The new Krav Maga Fight class begins next week Wednesday, 10/3, at 7:30PM. (Reminder: the Wednesday evening Krav Maga Fundamentals class moves to 6:30PM.) Please read through the details below before attending the class.
This week in the Advanced Krav Maga classes I introduced some brand new material (new for Krav Maga, anyway) from the major curriculum addition that Krav Maga Worldwide is calling “The Bridge”. This material is mostly comprised of wrestling and clinch fighting techniques that fill the gray area between our current stand-up and groundfighting techniques.
From KMW:
In our continuing effort to improve and evolve the Krav Maga system, we’ve called upon some of the best Krav Maga and grappling minds in the world and formed a committee to find opportunities for improvement in Krav Maga; specifically as they pertain to grappling, wrestling, takedown defenses, etc. The committee, consisting of high-level Krav Maga Worldwide Master Instructors, Champion Wrestlers, and Grappling Experts, are proud to share the next evolution of Krav Maga.
This material will be officially integrated into the curriculum by 2013, but we’ll begin training more and more of it as further details are passed down to instructors by KMW.
I worked through some of the techniques while at the National Training Center for Expert Series I. I’m pretty excited by this personally because it will, quite perfectly, “bridge” to my concurrent training in BJJ and MMA. I’m also very excited to be able to teach this stuff as Krav Maga, rather than sneaking it into classes with a disclaimer as I do from time to time.
Stay tuned. Perhaps we’ll kick it off with a seminar sometime in the fall…
When we introduce Defense against Headlock from the Side in Level 1, we explain that there is not an immediate life-threatening danger as there is with chokes. The headlock is not a choke; rather, the attacker’s goal may be to:
Assuming you either don’t know the Level 5 Defense against Headlock from the Side: Being Spun Inward or weren’t able to pull it off, it’s Attacker Goal #4 that leads to our Level 3 headlock on the ground defenses. These defenses address the basic position and the minor variations of it.
At the end of a BJJ class the other day, I played a game called “Group Fight” that, to me, underscored the inherent risks of fighting on the ground. I wanted to share some observations as they apply to our system of Krav Maga.
A brief background first: When I started training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, my intention was to go to classes for a couple months to learn some good fundamentals to augment my Krav Maga training. Five years later… I won’t be invited to Abu Dhabi anytime soon, but my BJJ skills are competent. As Krav Maga practitioners we never want to fight on the ground if we can help it, but being acclimated to that type of fighting can only improve our odds of going home safe.
As Mr. Miyagi said of the crane technique: “If do right, no can defense…”
This has nothing to do with anything we do; I just saw it and wanted to share. Stretch your necks and backs, ’cause we’re working on it for the rest of August*. 
* Just kidding, though I know a few of you are disappointed!
The July 2011 syllabus is subject to change. This post will be updated throughout the month.
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