Based on the fact that, in these video clips, the "attackers" seem pretty passive, and based on the techniques they're demonstrating, I'd still say hapkido would be a better art to learn for all the self-defense techniques displayed. The gun "disarming" techniques in the Krav Maga clips seem particularly suspect --they aren't doing anything much to immobilize/redirect the gun arm -- they're just relying on stunning the dude. Beating someone into submission works quite well if you're a big guy, not so good if you're smaller than your attacker. The technique they're showing in Gun- Third party protection is actually hugely dangerous -- the "third party" is *right in the path of the bullet* if the gun goes off.
Also the choke breaks in hapkido would work consistently better than the ones they showed here. I mean, yeah, a knee to the groin is a good, low-tech response that *any* MA will teach you -- but what if he blocks the knee, and sweeps your support leg? Ack.
Re: Krav Maga (I'm a big poopiehead)butterykittenOctober 7 2002, 02:07:00 UTC
I just watched the vids again in an un-cranky frame of mind ... and I was judging them too harshly. Upon closer inspection, the techniques seem good for demo videos (I was overlooking some details due to the frame rate). But, FWIW, this is the kind of stuff you also learn with hapkido and to a certain extent aikido ... my main concern with Krav Maga is that it's pretty trendy right now, and trendy=$$$. There are already too many dojos in the world that exist more to make money for the people running them than to actually help the people taking the classes. But, it's like you said, you can't know until you try it out. It is indeed worth looking into ....
But we might be able to find something more affordable at one of the colleges 'round here, if they let non-students participate. I'm all about affordable (she said cursing the job market).
I've been wanting to take Krav Maga since I saw this special on Dateline/24 Hours/20-20/Whatever. They said on that show that Krav Maga is very aggressive and most folks who take it are a lot quicker on their feet when they're actually in an attack situation.
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Also the choke breaks in hapkido would work consistently better than the ones they showed here. I mean, yeah, a knee to the groin is a good, low-tech response that *any* MA will teach you -- but what if he blocks the knee, and sweeps your support leg? Ack.
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But we might be able to find something more affordable at one of the colleges 'round here, if they let non-students participate. I'm all about affordable (she said cursing the job market).
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I'd love to be like that. :-)
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