10/08/2026
There are some "Real Self Defense" schools and systems out there, that are attempting to promote their system's effectiveness by telling people that other "proven" systems are "watered down" and "all cardio", and their system is the only one that works.
If you're ignorant enough to post this nonsense on a public platform, you better be able to back that up. Telling people that your system is used by elite military forces, and so it is better than another system used by elite military forces, just doesn't hold water.
Also, I have heard some say they don't think Krav Maga" isn’t effective because they: "don't spar". I have been in traditional martials arts where we sparred all the time (37 years) and I can tell you that, on the street there "is never just one attacker", and we don't waste our time sparring at a distance because we don't have time for that.
Watch a few videos of actual street fights and let me know how many people in those videos look like trained fighters.
If we have to react to a threat and the person IS a trained fighter, and we have to start out in distance sparring, we make a pathway to get in close quarters as soon as possible and make use of our "Krav Maga".
So, our sparring doesn't look the same as traditional martial arts sparring. It teaches us bad habits, and gives additional attackers more time to position themselves.
We don't step back into a fighting stance to "dance", we explode straight into your space with overwhelming violence and force to neutralize the threat quickly; assess the possibility of additional attackers; and make an exit to safety, or wait on Law Enforcement to take over.
Promote your style, but don’t do it by proclaiming that everyone else's system is trash. There are only so many ways that you can strike another person with your own hands, feet, elbows, knees, head, etc. People have been trying to come up with "the best way" to punch or kick someone for hundreds of years,... you aren't special,... or, maybe you are.
Be good to one another, and search out your own path; train in a proven system of your own choosing, and stick with it. "It is the way."
TRAIN FIGHT SURVIVE.
