Its true Jews can fight

GOING home battered and bruised is quite normal after a Krav Maga class. The martial art developed to protect the Jewish community from fascist militias during the Thirties and then later taught to Israeli security forces is not for the faint-hearted.

Instructors don’t believe that merely fending off an assault is enough.

They believe that, to fully protect yourself, you have to know how to finish your assailant off so they can’t come back for a second round.

KM Scotland instructor, Fraser Anderson, said: “In real life there is no such thing as a fair fight.

“It is one thing to block a knife attack or break someone’s grip, but an attacker will just come at you again unless you make sure they can’t.

“Which is why we teach people how to defend themselves by ensuring the attacker can’t come back at you, giving you a chance to get away.

“And that means using everything from kicking and punching to nipping and scratching, as well as the proper techniques.

“Your body is an arsenal of weapons and I think it is about time people learnt how to use it so they can walk the streets in safety.

“After all, what right does anybody have to hold a knife to your throat or try and drag you into the bushes while you are just going about your business?

“Every day you open the newspapers and read about attacks, and I think people have just ab out had enough of it.”

Well to me this should describe all martial arts because self defense and ability to win a fight should be what is a martial art. You shouldnt be learning just a bunch of moves and not relate them to combat if so well I call it dance.

I dont know about its origin being the war though and bands of Jews attacking Germans in the middle of the night in ‘vigilante’ or better said ‘freedom fighter gangs’.

Fraser told me that many of the class were actually prison wardens learning Krav Maga for extra protection in their jobs.

In particular, they wanted to know how to defend themselves against an attacker threatening to slit their throats, as this is one of the most common types of threat they have to deal with.

The same thing is now being said about the Keysi Fighting System after the Batman film and not long before it was said about Wing Chun. It seems like a martial arts comes to the publics attention and they say ‘wow that looks effective’, but that may be because so many styles and classes are not effective or so they seem to the public.

“However, we don’t teach under 16s because we realise that there is the potential there for young guys to get carried away by what we teach.

“This is all about being able to defend yourself rather than going out to do damage to other people.”

These are the classes I enjoy as it attempts to be the real deal and not a martial arts class which is in reality a babysitting event with the majority of the class being kids.

Source http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/

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