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Re: Krav Maga, are you kidding me?

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Defendu was a book that still had a lot of superfluous classic jujutsu type of techniques. Keep in mind when the book was written, jujutsu was like MMA of the day so WEF put a lot of that stuff in there.

What has happened is that there was no one really teaching any Defendu for years. A lot of people who claim to teach it today have turned it into a martial art based on their traditional martial arts training. A kung fu guy is going to make it look like king fu, a karate guy will make it look like karate.

Even though Carl did research, there was no one who could be traced to actually teaching it so it was used as a basis for what we do now.

Also, when Get Tough was released later it almost all of the complicated holds except the wrist twist and the thumb hold. Both of which are complicated and low percentage. I had heard that even Sykes criticized GET TOUGH saying that it was not brutal enough and had too much non-lethal, ineffective methods. But that’s only a rumor now since all of those guys are dead.

Commercial Krav Maga was doomed as soon as they built it on the martial arts model. Long term training demands complicated and a lot of techniques. In reality, we can take anyone and make them an animal in 12 months and as little as 1 to 3 months if they have good physical abilities.