What is Krav Maga?

Answer 1

a badass Israeli-developed form of self-defense utilizing intuitive punches and strikes more than formalized order, which karate tends to have. Developed for Israeli armed forces and police

Answer 2

Krav Maga is a form of martial arts that was developed in Israel for the Israeli Military and has been adapted to meet the needs of civilians, police officers, and security personnel. It is also taught around the world, and is a great form of exercise.

Answer 3

Hell everyone else is talking about it I might as well chime in.

Krav Maga is a form of self defense developed by Imi Sde Or, or Imi Lichtenfield. It was developed as a intuitive easy to learn form of self defense that could be taught to people of all sizes and fitness level. It was meant to be kept simple and intuitive as it was to be taught to the Israeli Defense Force. As everyone is required to serve in the IDF in Israel, it needed to be something everyone could use.

Krav Maga focuses on real world situations and reactions, utilizing tactics to be used in life or limb situations. It is actually pretty well reknown in the Martial Arts community for having some of the best, and more realistic weapon disarms.

Krav Maga uses strikes, eye gouges, soft tissue attacks, joint locks, and improvised weapons as a means of disabling or killing a would be attacker.

A typical Krav class uses a lot of pad work to hone your strikes, it may even use strobe lights, loud music or noises, and various other outside stimuli to help you focus and respond to an attack under durrest.

The simple answer- Krav Maga is a martial art developed in Israeli, and used the world over now in various military and law enforcement agencies as a means of self defense, utlizing striking with every viable striking surface of your body, soft tissue attacks, jointlocks, chokes, improvised weapons, and reaction towards being attacked with a weapon.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Krav Maga was initially developed for the Israeli Military but has also been adapted to meet the needs of civilians, police officers and security personnel.

http://www.institute-kravmaga.co.uk/about.asp

Answer 5

Krav Maga (Hebrew קרב מגע: "contact combat") is a self-defense and military hand to hand combat system developed in Israel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krav_maga

Answer 6

Isreali Martial Arts...very effective.

Answer 7

a amrtial art developed by the isreali military...there are no forms or katas to learn...it ic strictly a combat style martial art.

Answer 8

Israeli martial arts.

Answer 9

http://www.kravmaga.com/

http://www.krav-maga.com/definition.html

http://www.eikm.com/home_eng.html