Saturday morning we got up and went outside into the lovely 50-degree, cold, damp & cloudy Washington weather to meet with one of Lee's buddies who was going to teach us this CKM phenomenon. Here is a brief description of the "activity" and its origins:
Commando Krav Maga is an eclectic hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel that involves wrestling, grappling and striking techniques, mostly known for its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks, as it is also taught to elite special forces around the world. It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler, as a means of defending the Jewish quarter during a period of anti-Semitic activity in Bratislava in the mid- to late-1930s. In the late-1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide hand-to-hand combat training to what was to become the IDF, developing the techniques that became known as Krav Maga. It has since been refined for both civilian and military applications.
Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing threat neutralization, simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers, and aggression. Krav Maga is used by the IDF Special Forces units and several closely related variations have been developed and adopted by law enforcement and intelligence organizations, Mossad, Shin Bet, FBI, SWAT units of the NYPD and United States Special Operations Forces. There are several organizations teaching variations of Krav Maga internationally. (Wikipedia)
That being said, we spent the next 3 hours learning how to disarm, incapacitate, and "finish" any attacker in real-life situations... Violent, yes. Empowering, sure. Adrenaline inspiring and potentially lethal, you'd better believe it!! We learned all about how to break out of a choke hold, maximize the use of unconventional but nonetheless dangerous fighting techniques, and disarm an attacker in a matter of milli-seconds with bare hands and without allowing any opportunity to actually be injured by the weapon. And all of these techniques were presented & practiced based on real-life scenarios, with examples of how to maneuver to accomplish the desired outcome with any number of variations! Needless to say, we had a great time, despite the intermittent rain showers and the bruises that were discovered after the fact...
So now that the road trip is almost over, we are much more prepared to take on any number of assailants Bruce Lee- style, and we even have a few one-liners we learned from the boys to recite as we leave the club and get in the cab...
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