My experiences with krav maga so far - Part 1
I started studying krav maga in June of 2007. I’d heard of it before from a couple of friends but didn’t know much about it. A guy I knew through work mentioned he’d been doing it and really enjoyed it and I started thinking about checking it out. What eventually swayed my decision was reading the paper one day and reading about like five separate murders over the course of one weekend in South East London where I live. I’ve lived in South East London most of my life and some would say it’s not the safest place in the world although I haven’t experienced a huge amount of crime myself. Having said that I’ve often felt I’ve been quite lucky and so I eventually decided to find out a bit more about krav maga.
The interweb was of course my research tool of choice and I had a read on wikipedia and liking what I heard looked for some classes in my area. I had a good old Google around and found that there were quite a few different groups operating. many of these seemed to be teaching as style called ‘Commando Krav Maga’ which confused me. Again, I had a research into this and realised there was some controversy surrounding whether this was KM at all or an elaborate money making scheme. A quick look at the overpriced DVDs on the CKM website told me all I really needed to know. From then I checked out the British Academy of Krav Maga who had a good website and the Institute of Krav Maga who also looked good. In the end, not knowing much about the two I went with the Institute as they had more than one instructor and I liked what I read on the site. I booked my induction and quickly had an email from Jon giving me the time and the date to turn up on…
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