Krav Maga - Instructors, the average individual and the unique combination of techniques

- Extracted from Kravstation.com
- Posting by Mr. Boaz Aviram
- 3rd in line Chief of Krav Maga IDF

Question in regard to different instructor style and ability to teach...

As per Mr. Boaz
As for the Instruction, you are correct in describing the variety of talents of Instructors, however, in the IDF training method this factor was taken into account and those who could not instruct did not pass the instructor course.

Who is the average individual?

The training steps and method provided a solution to fast learning for all levels of intelligence. But at the same time the average soldier that was lucky to attend the IDF Krav Maga Instructor's Course, or just the short Hand to Hand Combat course, was at ;least high school graduate, and was in good physical health and shape, i.e. was not handicapped.

The other issue that I wanted to point out was that in Martial Arts certain originators of systems had a chance to learn from the experience of others before the developed their own and some did not.

But I do not think that kicking or punching belong specifically to any style such as Kung Fu (I've used the broad term for Chinese Arts)karate, and Boxing.

While Krav Maga punch looks like boxing more than Karate, yet it is very much different since it incorporates many principles together and is also taught faster and requires less training time to master.

Same for the kicks. While we know that every person is slightly different in his build and perception, it is possible that at least one person in another style did the exact one or two of the techniques that are demonstrated in Krav Maga.

I think overall however, that when you take all the fine points of each of the kicks and strikes and teach them all, there was not martial art that taught them the same before Krav Maga based on my years of various Martial Arts Training, and based on observation of the Great Masters of the Arts which are now available on youtube.

Parts of techniques and ideas and approaches were scattered all over the world. To combine it all in the correct perspective I would credit it to where I've found it - It was Krav Maga, where everything must make sense.

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