I'm looking into learning some self defense and I was considering Krav Maga.
Wow, Krav Maga is a military self-defense and fighting system, that's impressive!
So does that mean you recommend me learn it for self defense?
Well, Krav Maga does have a philosophy of defensive and offensive maneuvers, so it would be great to know. 
Awesome thanks. Do you know how long these techniques have been around or who uses them?
It was developed for the Israeli Defense Forces.  Don't mess with them.
Oh wow so it was developed by people from the middle east. I guess I never really thought about how they fought hand to hand combat.
use of his training as a boxer and wrestler while defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, during the mid-to-late 1930s. In the late 1940s, following his migration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF.
From the outset, the original concept of Krav Maga was to take the most simple and practical techniques of other fighting styles (originally European boxing, wrestling, and street fighting) and to make them rapidly teachable to
" Lopez then thought she should learn T'ai Chi or Tae Kwon Do, but was worried about learning it at an expert level in a short period of time. Her personal trainer then suggested that she study Krav Maga, the "official self-defense system of the Israeli Defense Forces which has recently become trendy in the States. The fighting style focuses on combating realistic scenarios with moves that are based on common, instinctual reactions", according to MTV News. Talking about the system, Lopez said: "[Krav Maga