Tuesday at Krav Maga Edinburgh

Class numbers were good last night considering the football was on and the its the Easter holidays.
In the first class we went into some basic pad drills and really fine tuned our techniques. We explored palm heel and hammer fist strikes and at what range we would introduce these. We then moved onto the 360 defence with simultaneous strikes. This covers all outside attacks whether its with a fist or a weapon has been introduced. The natural progression from here was to introduce the family of shields and how we would use these common objects to protect ourselves. The key here is to use the shield and keep the pressure on whilst simultaneously striking the attacker!

The next class we focused on some of the Tactical Edge system. Pad drills from our passive guard moving into a take-down. We focused on the Head tilt and foot pins into finishing mode. We then took that into some drills from our passive guard where we went preemptive and struck first and took down the aggressor. We would only use this when we knew we couldn't talk down the attacker and there was no other way out for us. We briefly looked at clothing grabs and choke from the front where we were not allowed to use elbows or knees, interesting as it really makes you think about things in more depth.

We quickly went over the recent workshop that Marcus and Rannoch (Firepower) did for us on striking to ensure everyone had perfect technique whilst striking. From here we finished off with some slow fighting where one would attack whilst other defends. No 2 of the same defences were allowed here so it allowed us to explore our full bag of tricks!

Rannoch took the kickboxing class and went through a multitude of drills focusing on striking and whats the right distance. Everyone is welcome at this class as this is part of your subscription so please attend as this will take your training to a new level.
Lee