Krav Maga. Gershon Ben Keren

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      Fighting Stance—This is a stance that demonstrates principles, such as keeping the hands up high when they are not being used to strike or block with. If you have the space and time to adopt a fighting stance in a real-life confrontation, you have either missed an opportunity to attack your assailant, or failed to disengage from them—otherwise you should be adopting an Interview Stance, with the goal of de-escalating the situation. Just as with the Interview Stance, your least dominant hand (and leg) should be forward. You should never find yourself in a static stance, as you should always be moving in a fight, either attacking, or preparing to attack.

      Striking, Punching, Kicking, and Throwing

      If you believe that violence is inevitable you should strike preemptively, rather than wait to be attacked. If you have adopted the Interview Stance and in talking to your assailant find them so aggressive and emotional that they don’t respond, or you understand that their motive is one that will inevitably lead to physical violence (they have a pre-planned goal they wish to accomplish, such as an abduction or mugging), you should take control of the situation and attack first.

      If disengagement is an option, and you can move behind a protective barrier such as a car and/or exit the situation, you should. If there is something in the environment you can use as a weapon then it would be advisable to arm yourself, for you should always assume that your assailant is armed, and you don’t want to have to deal with them in this capacity without a weapon of your own.

      Preemptive Striking Combination

      Following is detailed a preemptive striking combination that all Krav Maga Yashir students learn. In reality, it can be dissected and any part of the combination can be used during any stage of a physical assault, not just at the beginning, or in the order shown here.

      The combination leads with a preemptive strike. All the other techniques (the kick, the punches, the knee, etc.) flow out from there in an unbroken fashion, with each strike setting up the next. The body has three naturally weak targets that no amount of gym work and training can strengthen. These are the eyes, the throat, and the groin. A little force applied to each one of these targets will result in a great deal of pain and discomfort, which makes them excellent “first choice” targets.

      The Krav Maga Yashir system works along a continuum, referred to as Disrupt, Damage, Destroy, and Disengage. The first strike that is thrown should look to disrupt the assailant from either making an assault, or from continuing with their assault. To do this, you should attack the soft targets listed, with fast strikes that don’t require any power to be effective. If you are assaulted when unprepared and surprised, it will take you a relatively long time to get into a position from which you can deliver powerful strikes. You will be able to create this time by disrupting your assailant with an eye, throat, or groin strike and follow these with power strikes, which you will use to finish the fight.

      Lead Eye Strike

      A poor eye strike is much more effective than a poor punch, and so makes a very good initial strike. It also doesn’t rely on “body power” to be effective, and can therefore be thrown from almost all body positions. Even if it doesn’t land, it will normally cause the person receiving it to pull their head back, restricting their ability to make an attack (in that moment).

      From the Interview Stance, turn on the toes of the front foot and extend your front hand, aiming your fingers at your assailant’s eyes. The hand should flick out towards them, with the pivoting motion of the toes bringing the hip forward and turning the body, to give you a better reach. If your assailant is too far away for you to reach this way, you will need to take a small, sliding step forward to close the distance.

      If your strike connects, it will cause your aggressor’s eyes to water, disrupting them from making their own attack, and preventing them from defending themselves against your next, more damaging attack. Even if you don’t make contact, this fast movement aimed at their eyes will cause them to blink or pull their head back, giving you an opening to move in with a hard strike.

      Groin Kick

      Depending on the position of your aggressor’s stance, you may need to move before making the groin kick, as their leg position may prevent you from reaching your target.

      Although extremely simple and effective, groin kicks can be relatively difficult to pull off in real life situations. This isn’t because the kick is performed badly, but because people have a natural tendency to pull the hips back, and drop their hands to protect themselves when there is movement towards the groin. The groin is a relatively small and well-protected target.

      Although groin strikes can be difficult to pull off, the effects of a good groin kick can be devastating—whether it is the in-step of the foot or the shin that connects. Even if a connection is light—or possibly nonexistent—a person will pull their hips back in response, setting them up for other attacks, and putting them in a disadvantageous position.

      If the person is standing square to you, simply pull back the hand that made the eye-strike (using the body/pull of the hip), and push the other hip forward, while raising the knee by pushing off from the toes of the rear foot. Then rapidly extend the foot—and shin—upwards into your attacker’s groin. This is not a flick, it is a powerful kick, delivered with full force. You should lean back slightly as you make the kick, so your body and leg make a see-sawing movement over the hip.

      Understand how one hip pulling back assists the other in coming forward, so that both hips are involved in the kick. This is how real power is generated. This double-hip motion is common to all Krav Maga Yashir power strikes, whether they are kicks, punches, hammerfists, or slaps.

      If the person is standing with one leg forward, you will need to move to their opposite side in order to attack the groin—e.g., if they are standing with their left foot forward, you will need to move to their right (your left) in order to expose the groin.

      Step out diagonally with your left foot, which will now position you offline from your assailant and them square to you, as if both legs were on the same line. As you take this step, deliver the kick.

      Putting Your Assailant in a Disadvantaged Position

      When an assailant facing you has one leg forward and the other back, they are in a relatively strong body position. If you can move to a point where your assailant’s legs are spread out on a line directly in front of you, they are in a very weak position and are not particularly stable. If a person is leading with their left leg, stepping to your left will expose them this way, and vice versa, if they lead with their right leg you should move to your right.

      If a person is standing before you with both legs spread wide, you can make a groin kick without having to change your body position. However, if they are standing with one leg forward, the groin will be protected and it will СКАЧАТЬ