Krav Maga

I forgot to mention that I Wednesday night we had Krav Maga, martial arts, training. This is definitely one of my favorite things that we do. What can be better than learning to kick some ass? During the Krav Maga lesson, we start on with running. We run around in a circle and during it with either have to jump, get on our stomachs or backs. We also have to do sprints, similar to suicides. It’s pretty tiring. Also, if the instructor thinks someone isn’t sprinting then we have to do the sprints again, which happened. We also had to go against someone and try to push them back while they try to push you back. Both guys are putting everything they have into pushing the other as far back as possible. It’s all about leg strength and just continuing to drive yourself forward. After during running and whatnot for about 45 minutes, we finally learn some fighting techniques.

We went over what we have learned in our previous lessons: how to punch, and knee someone in the groin region. On Wednesday we learn how to essentially “hammer” someone in the back of the neck once you have them leaning over. It kind of resembles a monkey jumping up and down and hitting someone from “Planet of the Apes” with Mark Wahlberg. Not a great movie if you haven’t seen it.

To end the lesson, we got to practice all of our moves with a sleeping bag. It was a lot of fun. There are two different ways we learned to punch, then we have the kneeing thing and the hammer or bam bam as I like to call it. Everything that we learn during Krav Maga has a purpose. It more or less teaches you about survival and that there is no such thing as “cheating” when it comes down to living or dying. Everything is a weapon. Your rifle, hands, a chair, sand on the ground. Whatever you have to do to come out on top, you do. You learn how to motivate yourself and get tough. When I go to combat I cannot wait to learn more Krav Maga. It’s definitely one of the things I’m looking forward to the most.