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Krav Maga is a horizontal system, not focusing on one area or form of self defense, but a broad spectrum of situations, with a unique and logical approach. It is easy to learn and retain, is performed naturally and intuitively, and can be used under stressful conditions.
Krav Maga includes the subjects of:
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Defending all unarmed attacks such as punches, strikes, and kicks
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Releasing from all types of grabs and holds
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Defending all armed attacks and threats of knife and sharp objects. For example sticks, bars, other blunt objects, and all kinds of firearms
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Dealing with the above mentioned attacks when: Delivered from all possible directions and places, performed by a single or multiple attackers, occurring in all possible places, positions, or grounds
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Physical and mental control and disarm
Krav Maga contains special approaches, tactics, techniques, subjects, drills, and training methods for the different sectors including: civilians of all ages,men, women, and kids, law enforcement, Military, security officers, correction service officers, undercover agents, etc.
Krav Maga was developed for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and consists of a wide combination of techniques sourced from aikido, judo, boxing and wrestling, along with realistic fight training. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks. It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler as a means of defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Czechoslovakia in the mid-to-late 1930s. In the late 1940s, following his migration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga.
Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing threat neutralization, simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers, and aggression. Krav Maga has been used mainly by the Israel Defense Forces' special units and reconnaissance brigades and recently by regular infantry brigades, and several closely related variations have been developed and adopted by law enforcement and intelligence organizations, Mossad and Shin Bet.
Krav Maga
Bruce Lee once said, "Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” We at Synergy are firm believers in the value of cross training across all reality-based fighting systems. The truth is that “assaults happen closer, faster, more suddenly, and with more power than most people believe.” You never know when or how a situation in which you will need to defend yourself will play out, so it is incredibly important to be able to adapt to what happens, not what one martial art says will happen.
And for exactly that reason, we offer three of the most effective, most deadly self-defense systems in the world.
SYSTEMS WE TEACH
Kali is a Filipino style defense system focusing on the use of sticks, bladed weapons, and hand-to-hand combat. Kali offers real world answers to a wide variety of situations. As criminals and predators have evolved in the ways they try to victimize individuals, Kali is constantly evolving to offer the solutions practitioners need to fully defend themselves in a violent situation.
Kali generally students start their instruction by learning to fight with weapons, and only advance to empty-hand training once the stick and knife techniques have been sufficiently mastered. This is in contrast to most other well-known Asian martial arts but it is justified by the principle that bare-handed moves are acquired naturally through the same exercises as the weapon techniques, making muscle memory an important aspect of the teaching. It is also based on the obvious fact that an armed person who is trained has the advantage over a trained unarmed person, and serves to condition students to fight against armed assailants. Since the weapon is seen as an extension of the body, the same angles and footwork are used either with or without a weapon. The reason for this is probably historical, because tribal warriors went into battle armed and only resorted to bare-handed fighting after losing their weapons.
Students usually begin training with two weapons, either a pair of sticks or a stick and a wooden knife. These styles emphasize keeping both hands full and never moving them in the same direction, and trains practitioners to become ambidextrous. For example, one stick may strike the head while the other hits the arm. Such training develops the ability to use both limbs independently, a valuable skill, even when working with a single weapon.
A core concept and distinct feature of Filipino martial arts is the Live Hand. Even when as a practitioner wields only one weapon, the extra hand is used to control, trap or disarm an opponent's weapon and to aid in blocking, joint locking and manipulation of the opponent or other simultaneous motions such as bicep destruction with the live hand.
Kali is also sometimes referred to as Arnis or Eskrima; while there are some differences, the three are roughly interchangeable umbrella terms for traditional Filipino martial arts.
Kali
Instructor David training B3; Instructor Course Phase 1, Texas Defense Academy, Fort Worth, TX; August 2016
Ballistic 3 (B3)
BALLISTIC 3 the Study of Motion (or B3 for short) is a street-oriented self-defense program designed with multiple opponents in mind. Utilizing continuous motion as its basis, the program teaches you to maintain 360° awareness and to employ your body’s natural weapons while maintaining a constant state of protective cover.
B3 instructors and practitioners hold to the training philosophy that there are no rules in the streets. There is no referee to make sure your opponent “fights fair”. There is no help right around the corner. To be frank, any confrontation in this day and age can end with you in an emergency room… or worse. Street confrontations often happen in poor lighting, with the threat of concealed weapons ever-present, and with you likely outnumbered. That is the reality B3 teaches you to anticipate, and the reality for which you will train.
B3 also trains each practitioner to use their own natural advantages, and encourages free thinking and exploration. Our bodies are all different, and consequentially, we all move in different ways. In B3, you train your own B3 rather than learning a system and programming yourself to imitate someone else's movements.
Read more about Ballistic 3 at: http://www.b3ballistic3.com/
Instructor David training Krav Maga; General Instructor Course Part 3, 360 Krav Maga; Long Beach, CA; July 2012
