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…