Archives for 2012

Krav Maga Wrestling—”The Bridge”—Coming Soon

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…

August 2012: No Saturday Krav Maga

08.06.12 By Patrick 4 Comments

Due to attendance, Saturday 8:30AM Krav Maga classes are canceled until September 8.

We’re toying with reformatting the class when it resumes on 9/8, and we’re open to suggestions. We know 8:30AM is a killer, but class time is unfortunately not a variable for now. Saturday morning classes were started because students requested them. What will get you here on a consistent basis? Post to the comments below or let us know in class!

***UPDATE 08.31.12***
Saturday morning classes will remain on hiatus until Sept 22. Beginning 9/22, the class will be renamed Krav Maga Scenarios. More details here.

Back from Expert Series I in one [mangled] piece

07.31.12 By Patrick 8 Comments

Patrick @ Expert Series I — Me and the Expert Series I crew with instructor Kelly Campbell

On Sunday I successfully completed Expert Series I, the Level 4 instructors test at Krav Maga Worldwide National Training Center in West LA. I learned a great deal from instructors Kelly Campbell and Matt Romond. As usual, I have a ream of notes to compile, and I’m very excited to share with everyone.

We were certainly an accident-prone group, with two concussions, a back injury, a smashed zygomatic arch, my broken nose, and more than enough dings and dents for everyone. Yet I still had a great time and must thank my fellow instructors Molotov, Trey, Jackie, Chris, my training partner Richard (who was also my partner for Phase C), Nick, Josh, Jake, Adam, and Matt.

patrick-busted-face — Artist's rendering

Thanks to Brian and all at the Academy for helping me train. Thanks most of all to Danelle for attacking me with guns and sticks and knives for the past several months, and also for allowing me to come back home with a busted face! We’re going to have to invest in a training rifle to get ready for Expert II…

Despite my impaired breathing, I felt stronger and better prepared for this test than I did for any of the previous three. I know some of you are S&C geeks like me, so I’ll be posting a write-up soon about the training methodology I used.

I will unfortunately be out of physical training for a bit to tend to my crooked schnoz, but rest assured I’ll be incorporating new material in classes as soon as tomorrow!