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16 Jun 2025
Training With Injuries Part 2: Adjustments

Most injuries are very easy to train around, at least on paper. Two rules: 1: If a move hurts, don’t do it! 2: If a body part hurts, don’t use it! Admittedly, easier said than done, but if you wanted easy you wouldn’t have started Krav Maga in the first place. I do find that many people will get a fairly minor injury - let’s say a sprained wrist - and think they can’t train any more. Not because they’re wimps, but because they honestly think they aren’t allowed or qualified to train if they’re not fully healthy. Nothing could be further from the truth! Krav Maga is about adapting, and using the tools you have to face ....
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9 Jun 2025
Training With Injuries Part 1: Mentality

Getting hurt sucks. There’s no sugarcoating it. It’s frustrating, painful, and often discouraging, but it happens. Injuries are part of training, and when they occur, we have two choices: we can let them derail us, or we can find a way to make it work. Some injuries are truly debilitating, where training would be unsafe or irresponsible, but most of the time there’s a way to stay active, stay learning, and stay improving. At Krav Maga Raleigh, we use the phrase: “Train around injuries, not through them.” We’ll get into more details and strategies for that in other posts, but for now it’s important to understand that we do want to recover, ....
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6 Jun 2025
You're Solving The Wrong Problem Part 3: Training vs. Recovery

Let’s look at one more “Wrong Problem:” Training vs. Recovery. Many times in your training you’ll hit a plateau. That could be in conditioning, in technique, in learning the curriculum, and even in your desire to train. For a lot of people, the solution to this problem is MOAR TRAINING. If you feel that your conditioning is slipping, train harder. If you feel you’re forgetting techniques, take more classes. If you’re having trouble sleeping, tire yourself out more. The solution is always more . And sometimes that IS the solution. If you’re adequately recovering, fueling yourself with high quality nutrition, and enthusiastic about ....
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4 Jun 2025
You're Solving the Wrong Problem Part 2: It's Not Your Conditioning

What about problems in our own training? A very common concern is, “I need to get in better shape.” Let’s take sparring as an example: The first time someone spars - and for many, many times after - they will probably be shocked at how tired they get, even if they do well in Krav classes and fitness classes. So the first thing they think is, “I need to get in better shape.” But rarely is that the case. If we’re looking at light to medium sparring, it’s not physically much different from shadowboxing or hitting a heavy bag. In fact it can be a lot less strenuous because you aren’t throwing your punches and kicks as hard. And most ....
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2 Jun 2025
You're Solving the Wrong Problem Part 1: It's The Attacker, Not The Weapon

I probably read this comic 25 years ago, and the punchline has stuck with me ever since. Krav Maga is, at its core, about problem solving. You could argue that life is about problem solving, but that subject is outside the scope of my expertise. One quality that makes Krav Maga so brilliant is the focus on identifying the specific danger we need to solve. This quality is especially apparent in our weapon defenses. If someone is attacking you with a knife, the problem isn’t the existence of a knife, or even the fact that someone is holding a knife. The problem is the attacker. Of course we will block and neutralize the knife as best we can, but we fight the problem , which ....
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What If They…(insert random extremely unlikely thing)?

In the totality of the world of fighting, anything can happen. We actually had someone come into our gym brandishing a samurai sword one time. He didn’t attack anyone, and was definitely mentally unwell, so I’m glad the situation didn’t escalate. It also means if someone in class asks, “What if they have a sword?” I have to take that question seriously, because it did actually happen! Unlikely things do happen. Some people do win the lottery, some people do become celebrities, and some people do get attacked by katanas. But those scenarios are not where we need to focus our limited training time. One, because it’s not a good use of our ....
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What If They...Know How To Fight?

I remember an email I got early on in the infancy of Krav Maga Raleigh. The person wrote in and asked, “Is there groundfighting in Krav Maga.” I answered that we did have fundamental groundfighting, but we didn’t specialize in it because we also had to work on all the other skills. I still remember verbatim his response: “What if you fight a BJJ black belt? They will take you down and then own.” I didn’t respond to that very articulate email, because it was clear he had an agenda more than he had curiosity. But I did want to ask this guy what HE would do against a BJJ black belt, because apparently the only way to win a fight is to be ....
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What If They...Are Bigger Than I Am?

It’s just harder. Fighting isn’t a, “It Works Or It Doesn’t,” scenario. We can all agree that punching someone in the face really really hard works. Everyone knows that kicking someone really really hard in the groin works. Everyone knows that jamming your thumb into someone’s eye really really hard works. But sometimes it doesn’t. When someone is larger than you, it becomes harder to physically affect them. There’s a reason combat sports have weight classes, and why fighters dehydrate themselves to near death to get into lower weight classes. Being bigger is an advantage. Bigger people have more reach, more power, and more armor. ....
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16 May 2025
50% OFF Shirts and Tops For Another Week

We have one more week left on our apparel sale. T-shirts, tanks, and all tops are 50% off until next Friday. Use the code HALFOFFUNIFORMS at store.kravmagaraleigh.com when you check out. There are two reasons for this sale: 1) We do require Krav Maga shirts in Krav Maga classes, and we don't want you to have to spend a bunch of money to get kitted out. Our uniform policy is to reinforce everyone's belief that we're a team here at KMR, and teams have uniforms. It also removes those few times that someone would come in wearing a shirt that is offensive, inappropriate or just...weird. But mainly it's about the team cohesion. 2) Trade is pretty chaotic right now, and it seems ....
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14 May 2025
Why Krav Maga IS a Martial Art

“Krav Maga isn't a martial art, it’s a fighting system.” A true statement, and also one we can dig into. The word, “art,” in martial arts is often taken too literally, or too contemporarily. We use the word art to almost always mean a creative or aesthetic skill. Painting, writing, singing, etc. However the Military Arts have been formally studied for thousands of years and referred to as such. Any field of skill and knowledge is an “art,” even if we don’t use the term that way currently. As for “martial,” that refers to war and the military. So the “Martial Arts,” is synonymous with ....
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Training With Injuries Part 2: Adjustments

Training With Injuries Part 1: Mentality

You're Solving The Wrong Problem Part 3: Training vs. Recovery

You're Solving the Wrong Problem Part 2: It's Not Your Conditioning

You're Solving the Wrong Problem Part 1: It's The Attacker, Not The Weapon

What If They…(insert random extremely unlikely thing)?

What If They...Know How To Fight?

What If They...Are Bigger Than I Am?

50% OFF Shirts and Tops For Another Week

Why Krav Maga IS a Martial Art

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