What Your Krav Maga Stance Says About Your Readiness
Boxing, Muay Thai, BJJ, and Krav Maga all use different ready positions for a reason. Here’s what your stance actually reveals about your real-world readiness — and how to fix it.
What Should I Teach You First: Restraint or Power?
What Should You Learn First in Self-Defense: Restraint or Power? People come to me because they want to stop feeling powerless. Most of them do not use that word. They say they want confidence, or safety, or awareness, or the ability to protect someone they love. Underneath all of it is one need. They want […]
Popular Behavior Does Not Prove Good Judgment
Why Train When Most People Don’t? My son recently asked me why he has to learn martial arts when most people don’t. It’s a reasonable question. Children watch what other people do and treat it as evidence. When most people avoid something, a child assumes there’s a good reason for it. Maybe the activity is […]
Why Advanced Martial Arts Students Still Need Beginners
Why Advanced Martial Artists Need to Train With Beginners Advanced students have valid concerns about training with beginners. A beginner does not yet understand the ethics of the gym or the ethics of the art. He may not understand control. He may not understand distance. He may use too little resistance and give the defender […]
Why “Good Enough” Fails in Martial Arts Training
“Good Enough” Isn’t The Goal in Krav Maga Training Could you imagine a commander in the military saying, “It’s good enough. No need to fix it unless it’s completely broken”? I never heard that in my service. In serious training, the small mistake is corrected before pressure turns it into a serious failure. That […]
Self-Control Is a Self-Defense Skill
Self-Control Is the Skill That Keeps Self-Defense From Becoming Violence A serious self-defense school has to teach people how to fight with control. The ability to strike, move through contact, and keep working under pressure matters because real violence can escalate faster than most people expect. A person with no physical answer may freeze at […]
Can Fake Combat Training Still Build Real Confidence?
The Bag Doesn’t Hit Back. So Why Train With It? One of the most persistent criticisms of martial arts and self-defense training is that most of it is fake combat. The criticism is usually correct. A heavy bag never counters your strike. Focus mitts never decide they have had enough and start attacking back. A […]
What a Krav Maga Black Belt Test in Really Reveals
Fatigue Has a Way of Telling the Truth Last night we held a Krav Maga black belt test at Krav Maga Experts. By hour three, one of the students was breathing through his mouth, knees slightly bent between rounds, hands on his thighs. I watched him. He wasn’t resting. He was deciding something. Then he […]
The Invisible Curriculum of Martial Arts
The Invisible Curriculum of Martial Arts Nobody joins a gym to be shaped by a person. They join to learn a skill, to get stronger, to understand something about how to handle physical threat or physical demand. The instructor is understood as a delivery mechanism for that knowledge. This is a reasonable way to think […]
What Your Mobility Says About You
What Your Mobility Says About You You do not need to ask someone how they train. You can see it in the first few steps they take. Mobility is one of the clearest indicators of how a person uses their body. It shows coordination, control, awareness, and discipline. It also exposes shortcuts. The body does […]
