Krav Maga Tactical Survival. Gershon Ben Keren

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СКАЧАТЬ aggressor’s motivation is one of five different situational components that you will need to take into consideration when determining solutions. These five different components are:

      1. Location/Environment—Where does the incident take place? A public street, your house, etc.?

      2. Relationship—What is your relationship with your aggressor? Stranger, acquaintance, friend, etc.?

      3. Motive—What is motivating your aggressor? Financial gain, sexual satisfaction, ego, injustice, etc.?

      4. State of mind—What are you thinking/how prepared are you? Are you surprised, resigned, in denial, etc.?

      5. Third parties—Who is with you? Are you alone, with friends, with kids, etc.?

      Not all violence is the same. A person who puts a knife to your throat may do so for a number of reasons. They may be attempting to rob you, or they may want to abduct you, or they may have just become enraged by something you have done (or they think you’ve done). This could occur on a street, in a parking lot, or in your own home. It could be committed by someone you know, rather than a total stranger. You might not be on your own; you may be with friends or family members, and if you have kids, they may be present, too. Knowing how to perform a knife control or disarm is really only one part of the story, as depending on the situation there may be more effective solutions, and a disarm may in fact be detrimental to your safety. Understanding how these different components interact and change the dynamics of a situation will allow you to choose and implement an effective solution. This book attempts to educate you about how to solve these situations safely, rather than just how to perform various Krav Maga techniques.

      Krav Maga is a practical system, and our approach to using it should be practical as well. It has come a long way from the 1940s, when Imi Lichtenfeld designed it as a system of close combat for a soldier with a pack on his or her back. Where violence on the battlefield was simple and direct, the aggressive and violent situations in which modern soldiers and civilians find themselves are much more complex; the modern infantryman has to perform peacekeeping and law-enforcement roles, and civilians have to deal with muggers, sexual assailants, and drunks in bars. While the techniques of Krav Maga are still simple, the situations where they may need to be applied are far from simplistic, and Krav Maga has evolved and developed in order to remain effective and applicable.

      This book is divided into four parts: the first part looks at striking and blocking; the second at armed scenarios; the third at unarmed assaults and the situations in which they occur; and the fourth at throws and takedowns. Although this book stands alone, I refer in places to my first book, Krav Maga: Real World Solutions to Real World Violence (published by Tuttle), as I didn’t want to duplicate any of the information or techniques contained therein. Once again, I have tried to demonstrate the simplicity of Krav Maga, the concepts and principles upon which it is founded, and the way it reuses and builds on existing techniques and movements, rather than trying to create new ones. Ultimately, this book is about survival. It is not about ego or being right; as the Hebrew Bible states, “It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion.”

      PART I

      Striking

      The majority of violent situations you will find yourself in will occur face-to-face (Panim-a-Panim), regardless of whether you are dealing with a sexual assailant, a mugger, or a drunk in a bar. This means that in most situations, your solutions will involve striking (preferably preemptively) to a greater or lesser degree, and so you should therefore learn to strike hard and accurately.

      If you look at what you are attempting to do in a violent altercation, 80 to 90 percent of it will be to try to deliver pain and concussive force through striking, with the goal of emotionally and physically debilitating your assailant so that they are either unable or unwilling to continue the fight. To this end, your striking should be conducted as an all-out assault against them, to be carried out with full emotion and aggression. It should look very different from the way that you spar—sparring is something you do with a partner; real-life striking is something you do against an assailant.

      Your striking will be given its power and potency through your aggression and your emotion; a poorly executed strike delivered with full emotion and aggression will be more effective than a technically perfect one that lacks any emotional commitment.

      Upper-Body Combatives

      Many people who practice punching on focus mitts are surprised when they’re not able to generate the same type of power when striking the head with bare knuckles. The same will often be experienced by individuals who train/spar wearing gloves—the bigger the gloves they wear, the more difficult they will find the transition. When you strike a focus mitt, you are hitting a flat surface, so you are able to hit it square on and deliver driving force through the target. Gloves create the same effect by “flattening” the striking surface and spreading the force into the target. When you punch bare-knuckled to the head, you are rarely striking a flat surface—especially if you are striking someone who is directly in front of you. If, on the other hand, you move to the side of the person and strike, you can present the face as a flatter surface, and you can deliver greater concussive, damaging force. The effect of punching a face positioned directly in front of you is that your punches will often “roll” off the target. The risk of this increases if the head moves with the initial impact of your strike. This is why, if you are going to deliver straight punches, positioning yourself before striking is so important.

      When you practice on striking surfaces that offer you a flat target, you can generate and focus power relatively easily. This is the purpose of such training aids. The problem is that in real-life altercations, where you are aiming strikes at the face/head, and other targets, you aren’t striking a flat surface, so it isn’t always possible to focus your power in the same way.

      When you strike the face/head you are punching a spherical surface rather than a flat one. This may result in your fist rolling off the target rather than driving through it. It is also worth noting that a human head isn’t fixed; it is able to rotate on the neck, which may also cause your punch to roll off the target.

      If you move to the side and strike the face/head at an angle, you will be striking a flatter surface than you would be if you were face on. This means you will be able to deliver driving force into the target. This is one reason you need to position yourself correctly before you deliver a punch.

      It is not always possible to get into such a position, so it is worth having other striking tools that can be delivered when directly facing your assailant.

      Because of this, it is good to have other striking options/tools in your arsenal that can often be more effective at delivering force into an irregularly shaped target such as the face/head.

      Thumb Strike to Eyes

      A thumb strike to the eyes is a very effective initial strike for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it doesn’t require a great deal of force to be effective, which means that you can throw it without having to first get your body aligned and into a position from which it can deliver real power. In the first moments of a fight, being able to do something that will disrupt your attacker is essential, as once an assailant gets some momentum and a rhythm to their assault, even relatively simple punches and strikes can be difficult to defend against. If you can interrupt СКАЧАТЬ