Krav Maga - Pistol threat in one hour??

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

Question:
If you only spend 1 hour to teach punching and only 1 hour for defense vs. pistol threat that you've got a totally different system than the Krav Maga Worldwide system I'm used to.

Spending so little time on important techniques like that would never work for me. I feel I have to practice over and over again before I can perform the technique to it's fullest in a stressful situation! :)

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Top expert Boaz Aviram answers:

If you learn it right from the beginning and to completion, your mind remembers all the aspects of it where to start and where to finish.

If you learn it piecemeal you have more of a chance to repeat errors that are not timely corrected and you would need a lot more time to correct these.

If you can drive you have the mental ability to learn gun defense and any other martial art/krav maga technique to perfection in an hour. The physical ability you are born with.

Remember to look for the most efficient motion to move the barrel away from pointing at you without projecting your motion and getting your attacker on guard. That means you do not want to move your whole body or more than one arm before the barrel is completely not pointed at you. You then take the worse scenario that your opponent is the best trained and the smartest opponent, so you move closer to him to be ahead of the game if he tries to retract the weapon and re aim.

You take into account his free hand that can be used as a weapon as well, and therefore you strike him with after the barrel is not pointed at you to break his train of thought or basically to stop him from trying another plan. When you subdue him, you carefully take the pistol out of his hand.

You ignore a possibility that he might try to kick you since your hand strike would reach him before he would have a chance to shift his weight to one foot so he could lift the other. Obviously if you need more time you rehearse it again, and have time to ask questions and clarify issues in the coming sessions.

You do get benefits of fitness social gathering in the dojo system however, but it comes with all the faults of that you adjust your speed of learning to the slow transmission of knowledge to maximize the potential economical profits based on the population of youth, hours of training and schedule of the population, and adjust your learning progress to new students etc. The environment could turn into chaos and lack of quality control and immediate supervision could lead to defective products(students).

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