Pure Krav Maga Saratoga Springs

Classic Drop Punch/Jab & Follow Up Cross

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In this last photo you can see what I call Inefficient Bottom-Up Knife Stab. I teach if the knife is in the front hand you dont have time to move and you should wait and ready for a thumb out flip like a straight stab defense. Although, the hold it bottom up which shortens the stab's range by about the length of the knife, it is faster than a classic bottom up where the attacker reaches with the opposite leg forward and then stabing with his cross hand. In this case the at...tacker advances by lunging forward instead of cross walking holding his knife in the front hand. This does not leave you time to evade the stab with your body and stop the pendulum arm motion before it reaches your body. When I see a single photo like this I ask myself. Is it a random execution of a technique without paying attention to such important detail? Is it earlier development of Krav Maga principles? Did the attacker happened to run reaching the defender with his cross hand stab first and then let his cross foot slip forward(unlikely from the momentum assumption). Is the photo taken after the initial forearm flip/elbow block while the defener continued to move on to reach with his counter attack? I conclude that its either an attempt to demonstrate the classical bottom up knife defene with the demo partner executing a front leg knife hand bottom-up attack while Instructor is not paying attention, or its an early stage development of Krav Maga. But knowing Immi's meticulous attention to detail, I narrow it down to early stage development of Principles of Krav Maga! See more