Krav Maga

Israeli martial art created by Imi Lichtenfeld in the late 1940s.

Covers

Covering your vital points against opponent strikes.

Blocks

Redirecting the opponent's strikes.

Trapping

Pinning the opponent arm.

Why Nonathlete People Shouldn’t Training Hard Like Pro Athlete

Why nonathlete people shouldn’t training hard like pro athlete?

Pro athletes training hard for competition, they also get paid monthly as pro athlete (this is their job right? Paid for training and competing, no wonder). In martial art sports, they also doing various extreme training like sparring fight in Boxing or acrobatic jumps in Wushu Taolu.

Look at these injuries that often happen in training and competition:

See? Hard training will create great result but also have great sacrifice too, this risk is also part of their job.

How about the medical fee? Pro athletes are different with ordinary people. Pro athletes have sponsor and organization who will support their career in sport, including paying medical fee whenever they injury during training or tournament.

And how about nonathletes who don’t have sponsor? Who will pay the medical fee?

So the conclusion is, nonathletes should doing sport just for exercise, just for fun. As ordinary people, you can keep training martial art safely as cardio - aerobic sport without doing high risk sparring fight or acrobatic jumps.

Freestyle Wrestling

American wrestling style created in in the late 19th century. Developed from older British Catch Wrestling style but modified became softer sport.

Mixed Martial Arts Tournament

Mixed Martial Arts (also known as Pankration, Leitai, Vale Tudo, Shooto, Shoot Fighting, Daido Juku or Kudo) is freestyle fighting sport tournaments which opened for all combat sport styles from around the world to participate in their event.

MMA history began since ancient times. In ancient China, Mixed Martial Arts tournament appeared in the form of Leitai, a no-holds-barred mixed combat sport that attended by many participants from various fighting schools like Kungfu, Kuntao, Shuai Jiao, Qin Na, Mongol Bokh and other traditional styles at that era.

In ancient Greece, there was also MMA tournament called Pankration, the concept is similar with Chinese Leitai where fighters from various martial art schools are fight each other in tournament.

Beside ancient Chinese and Greece, there are also many evidences of similar MMA tournaments in ancient Egypt, India and Japan with same concept.

Based on fighting techniques permitted on tournament, there are 3 divisions / classes in general MMA tournaments:

1. Fighting / Striking Division

Scoring system are only permit striking techniques. Like punches, kicks, elbow and knee strikes. No clinches permitted here.

2. Wrestling / Grappling Division

Only grappling moves permitted here for scoring. Like throws, pins, jointlocks and chokes. No any strikes permitted here.

3. Free Fight / All Round Fight Division

Both striking and grappling moves are permitted for scoring. Some organizers require the participants mastering both striking and grappling styles to register for their tournament, other organizers doesn’t require the participants to mastering 2 martial arts.

Why Spinning Kicks Are Too Risky For Real Fight

Reason why Spinning kicks are too risky / too dangerous for real fight situation is: Your opponent can intercept it while you turning your body.

Compared with normal strikes, spinning strikes are too slow in real fight because they need more time for the turning motion. Your opponent can intercept it anytime they want.

See? The opponent can hit your back bone or your back brain, very dangerous.

Seriously, injury at your back brain or your back bone are not fun, that’s hurt you know?

They also can grab your leg or choking your neck from behind like this:

The fact is: Spinning kicks are created for martial dance art, for aesthetic purpose like in Freestyle Capoeira or Wushu Taolu martial dance competition.

Even real high quality Freestyle Capoeira & Wushu Taolu clubs are never promote their club as "Fighting Sport" like Muay Thai or Boxing. Honest in bussiness is the key of success, people will respect and trust you.

How To Kicking Opponent's Leg Without Breaking Our Own Shin

*Warning!! Photos in this article are horrifying for sensitive readers!!*

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Why there are so many fighters who broke their own shin when they kicking the opponent’s leg in fighting tournaments?

The reason is: Those fighters who broke their own shin are smashing their own weak bone wrongly to opponent’s strong body part.

Some instructors are often teaching their students to aiming the Round Kick to opponent's thigh like these:

The fact is: Kicking the opponent’s thigh using Round Kick is ineffective technique because thigh have strong and thick muscle. 

And if the opponent blocking our kick using a Leg Check, our shin will crash their strong knee part and we will break our own shin. Thin bone meet with thick bone, that's will be very hurt.

Round Kick is only effective to kicking opponent’s soft and weak areas. Like side chin, ribs or calf.

 

Even if the opponent blocking our kick using Leg Check, we will not break our own shin because our shin is not crashing the opponent's strong knee part. Thin bone meet with Thin bone so it won't break.

Sometimes the opponent's hanging leg will be carried along with our kick, so it won't feel hard to out shin.

One interesting question is: When we aiming our Round Kick to opponent's ribs, they often doing Leg Check and our shin hit their knee too. But why our shin is not break here?

Because when the opponent doing Leg Check too high to blocking our high Round Kick, their balance is unstable, their body mass become weak. Sometimes the opponent also will fall when trying to Leg Check-ing our high kick like these:

The impact on our shin is not too hard, sometimes there is no impact. That why our shin will not break here (based on my personal experience).

By the way, there are also several alternative kicks that we use to kicking opponent’s leg. Like Sweep Kick and Stomp Kick.