- Extracted from Kravstation.com
- Posting by Mr. Boaz Aviram
- 3rd in line Chief of Krav Maga IDF
This type of ranking resembles more of a military type rank of corporal, sergeant etc, which takes into account the time spent in training and the course of completion of the training.
However again, it is far from the IDF Krav Maga ranking. In the IDF you either take a week or two in Krav Maga, where you get no rank, or you take the 100 hours one month Krav Maga Instructor's course where it takes about 21 hours to learn all the techniques and be proficient in them and the rest of the time is spent on daily fitness and Instructor qualification which is teaching how to teach and being graded on teaching.
In one hour you learn to punch like Muhamad Ali's best shots, and the pressure points, and then in another you learn front and side kicks.
You learn all the defenses vs. punches and kicks in one hour, you learn all the rest of the kicks in another hour: Front roundhouse, side roundhouse, full spinning side roundhouse, rear kicks attack and defense, slap kicks inside and outside and front and side jumping kicks.
You will need another half hour to learn the low punches, and knife hand and elbow strikes.
You learn use of a club and defense vs club in an hour, and all the knife techniques in two more hours.
You spend another hour on knife fighting, you learn all the grappling techniques while standing in another hour, release from chokes in another, and all the round fighting in another hour.
You learn defense vs pistol threat in an hour, and you spend few hours on fighting games.
Fighting games include control games on the ground, and full contact kicks and punches with gloves only and no rules except try not to kill the opponent. That means that instead of restricting the type of pressure point to be used, the restriction is more common sense of a type so that if you shove your thumb to your opponent's eye or throat, you do it lightly to hurt but not to damage, and obviously in the full contact fighting you have gloves on that restrict this.
When you kick your training partner's knee joint you only do it enough to stop his kick or his body movement, but stop yourself short of tearing his cruciate ligaments, and when you punch him to the face you keep increasing the force to the point that it stops his train of thought and he is standing with his hands down not unable to respond.
This type of training promote the full picture quicker, and when you learn everything together quickly, you can train safely on your own and be prepared quickly to defend yourself if needed.
So in civilian life there is the element of wanting to belong to a military type or "Martial" type of organization which is satisfied with the ranks without the need to ever be in the front line combat, but at the same time, I find it that grown up adults and former martial artists that would like to switch to Krav Maga find it humiliating to wear some kind of a lower rank than what they are used to. So it is something to train for , you get some sense of achievement, seniority within the organization, but at the same time you are headed for the long road of slowly training on a slow fire that might never get to the boiling point.
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*Self defense is a subset of Martial arts*
*Reality based self defense training cannot always be 100% real, because there may be no one left to train with! But do it real enough or else RBSD is just a bullshit term* - Me
*Train for what happens most and you will be able to handle most of what happens -- Marc "Animal" MacYoung*
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