Do you know anything about Krav Maga? A friend was telling me about it. I was thinking of looking for some classes.  
I think I've heard of it.  Is that the new pottery fad?
Ha, no, it is a military self-defense thing, it was developed in Israel. 
ooh, developed in Israel.  It must be effective.  Do you think it's better than Karate?
It actually involves some karate, but also boxing, wrestling, aikido, judo, and just general fight training. 
Sounds like a swiss army knife of self defense.  Does it work?
I think it must work pretty well -- the Israeli special forces units use it!  So does their security apparatus and their regular infantry. Impressive, right?
That is impressive.  How did it make it's way here?
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
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