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in a sport, not in self-defense.

This is where Krav Maga is different. We certainly create training drills and
training methods that limit student options…but we constantly (our students
might say obsessively!) remind them that they should not be fighting by the
rules. For example, they should look to disengage and run away, or find an
object to use as a weapon. We have no interest in proving to ourselves or the

attacker that we can do a particular technique. Our only interest is in going home
safely.

Krav Maga is heavy on the “martial” and not much into the “art.” We aren’t
always pretty, but we get the job done. We prefer to describe Krav Maga as a
“defensive tactics system”—a tactical and logically sound approach to dealing

with violent confrontations.