How good is Krav Maga as a martial art/self defence system compared to other arts like Muay Thai, BJJ etc.?
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How good is Krav Maga as a martial art/self defence system compared to other arts like Muay Thai, BJJ etc.?
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How good is Krav Maga as a martial art/self defence system compared to other arts like Muay Thai, BJJ etc.?
I trained Krav with the Israeli military and with several civvie systems. They seem to be two separate arts.
So it depends. Krav certainly has the tools, but so do so many other systems.
BJJ has excellent submissions on the ground. The only people who think nearly every fight ends up on the ground for both parties are BJJ fighters. Generally one fighter goes to the ground, hurt, or the fighters are separated. BJJ isn’t good for self defence on its own. I study GJJ not to fight on the ground, but to get back to my feet again. Brilliant, fantastic art, within limits.
Muay Thai has excellent striking. It is probably the ‘king’ of the striking arts. It has no ground fighting and limited grappling. But Muay Thai also has limits, like it doesn’t deal with weapons particularly well. Of course, not many martial arts do, and no martial art deals with all weapons well.
Krav is a bit of a Jack of all trades. It does a bit of everything, but something does everything Krav does better.
Personally, I would take Krav as a philosophy to base your other training on top of. But that is just my opinion.
The arts are not nearly as important as the person in the fight.
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Krav Maga is a good well rounded self-defense based martial art but it lacks constant pressure testing compared to combat sport oriented martial arts. I would recommend cross training Krav Maga with a combat sport based martial art.
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It’s not.
To expand on this a little:
Krav Maga originally started as a group of jewish boxers and wrestlers forming up to protect themselves from nazi/nazi sympathetic gangs who wanted to hurt them. They then realised boxing and wrestling, while good sports, differed from the brutal reality of street fighting. (Basically there’s no rules.)
When the founder went to Israel in the 1940s he began incorporating aspects of other martial arts into his system until we have krav maga that we know today.
If you learned Krav in the Israeli military where, if I’m not mistaken, every Israeli citizen (male and female) has to serve at least two years. (Please correct me if I’m wrong about this.) Then you’re most likely able to absolutely smash someone who poses a threat to you because you’ve been drilling relentlessly for hours on end.
The problem is 99.9% of civilian krav schools teach a watered down cversion of Krav where you practice what to do in specific situations and drill punches and kicks against pads. Now obviously drilling punches and kicks is good there’s no debating that. The problem is, is that people take a class in a local community centre for 1 hour a week and think they’re a human weapon because they wear camo trousers and combat boots. In reality you’re going to end up getting hurt if you think your 1hr a week class is actually going to help you.
Take it from BJJ black belt and ex navy seal Jocko Willink:
“The best form of self-defence is conceal and carry. If you can legally carry a firearm do so and book as much time at the range as you can afford. After that comes BJJ and western style boxing, then muay Thai and wresting.”
you can watch this on YouTube where he fully explains it better than i have.
Best part about the above martial arts mentioned is that chances are you can find a place that practices multiple times a week if not a day and can get much more prepared much faster than most civilian krav schools can.
So TL:DR: forget learning krav. Learn BJJ and muay Thai since it actually helps you if you go to the ground and also teaches you how to take a punch and give one back (and a kick, knee, or elbow.)
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