look it up

It's what they teach you in the IDF

it's the one thing jews did right

Honestly from what I know about not sure if you can really consider it a martial art

woo i iz red blet 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UnXCDASwUQ

@Baraban forget all that "peace of mind" bs

it's just how to fight

it was made after ww2 to defend themself in unarmed combat. and it was made to dusable the oponet to a point where he was in no shape to get back up in a shot amount of time and all dirty tricks in the book was ok

@Mips I guess

They just thought me how to hit someone in the face with an M16

@Baraban I'm guessing that's where you're coming from

oh lawd

no

it's alot more

the IDF teaches and uses it in combat

and it has proven to be pretty effective

I know, I barely had any Krav Maga in my training, but I still don't think it's really like a marital art

It's not like Karate

calling it an evolving combat style is more right I think

They don't teach you how to beat someone in the ring

It's a hand to hand combat technique. semantics at this stage

or an 'unarmed combat.. something'

there's a very British word that I'm forgetting

but it would fit perfectly

It literaly means "touch fight". Though a better translation would probably be just "hand to hand combat"

but then martial arts are failed oldschool combat styles

Which is another reason I don't really see it as a martial art

if it is evolving and not a martial art

'failed'? most of them are effective unless the-

wait what

anyway

there's only so many ways you can teach a punch

One of those Sikhs was telling me today that a large portion of southerners are racist, and are now moreso because of Trump, whats a good counterargument

since most martial arts these days in the west are more for show

than practical use

They didn't fail. I'd bet a Jujitsu fighter would bit a "Krav Maga expert" in a staged fight

That's what they are about more or less

most you see in the media is fancy dancing anyway

again, boils down to semantics. BJJ is still derived off of Jiu Jitsu which is derived off of Judo and so on

Some of them just tend to focus on more specific areas than others