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Archives for December 2011

A Visual Guide to Sparring Rotation

12.21.11 By Patrick 4 Comments

What’s the hardest part of sparring? Getting hit in the face? Mixing punches and kicks? Seeing peripherally out of that stupid helmet?

Nope.

The round is over; it’s time to rotate.

In the spirit of Krav Maga Sparring Drills for Visual Learners, I present a visual guide to sparring rotation.

Version 1

At the end of the round, everyone returns to their starting positions, then everyone moves one position to their left. If there is an odd number of students, the student in the bottom left corner is the next to be “odd person out” and returns to the rotation in the following round.
Sparring Rotation How-to v1

Version 2

At the end of the round, everyone returns to their starting positions, then everyone moves one position to their left except the student in the bottom left corner. This ensures everyone gets to spar one another.
Sparring Rotation How-to v2

Filed Under: Fighting/Sparring, For Your Amusement, Krav Maga News, Krav Maga Technique Library

Winter Break 2011

12.19.11 By Patrick Leave a Comment

The Academy will be closed December 24 through January 1. The Academy will re-open January 2, 2012.

Be sure to check here during the break for some at-home workouts!

Happy Holidays!

Filed Under: Announcements & News, Kenpo News, Krav Maga News Tagged With: school closings

Wednesday 12.14.11: Clinch Fighting

12.09.11 By Patrick 3 Comments

As we wind down the sparring cycle, we’re going to take a break from the freestyle sport fighting we’ve been doing and focus on some different techniques and drills to help round-out the skills you’ve been developing over the last couple months.

For next week Wednesday’s 6:30pm Advanced class (Dec 14), we will be training some basic clinch techniques for very close-range fighting. We’ll even make use of the spiffy wall mats to do some MMA-style drills.

Notes:

  • This will be a technical—though physically demanding—class. We will do little, if any, freestyle sparring.
  • Please bring fingerless MMA gloves if you have them. They’re not required, but some techniques will be easier with them than 16-oz gloves. We will not be sparring with them.
  • Remember the pummeling warm-up? Yeah, we’re probably going to do that for starters.

Filed Under: Fighting/Sparring, Krav Maga News Tagged With: MMA

“krav maga” on “The League”

12.08.11 By Patrick Leave a Comment

On tonight’s episode of “The League”, Kevin thinks his female “krav maga” instructor is, let’s say, enjoying groin strikes too much. His wife doesn’t care because she wants him to “get less fat”. Teaser trailer below.

The show premieres tonight at 10:30pm on FX, most likely re-rerunning all weekend.

***UPDATE 12.09.11: As expected, that had no semblance whatsoever to Krav Maga, but Krav Maga Worldwide black belt instructor A.J. Draven did have a cameo!

Filed Under: For Your Amusement, Krav Maga News Tagged With: A.J. Draven, KMW, TV/Movies, video

Law Enforcement Only Seminar 12.17.11

12.01.11 By Patrick

Krav Maga Worldwide Force Training Division
Brian MacDonald, certified under the Krav Maga Force Training Division, will be conducting a law enforcement seminar on Saturday, December 17, from 2-4pm. This seminar is free and will cover basic combatives, self-defense, and weapons retention techniques as they apply to law enforcement use of force.

***Due to the classified nature of the training, this seminar is open to sworn law enforcement officers only***

For more information on Krav Maga for law enforcement, please see our Law Enforcement Only Program page.

If you are in law enforcement or know someone who is, please pass this information along.

To sign up, please contact us at 617.923.4248 or by using the form below.

Click Here to Sign Up »

Filed Under: Announcements & News, Kenpo News, Krav Maga News, Law Enforcement, Seminars & Events Tagged With: seminar/special event

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