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Thinking Outside the Box

Today I was given the opportunity to post on the awesome blog over at Krav Maga Institute in New York City. They will have a post appearing here on Krav Maga Journey very soon. Keep your eyes open for it! In the meantime, here’s my take on applying Krav Maga “Fight IQ” to the real world: Krav […]

Swimming in the Deep End of the Pool

As humans, it is so easy to do the least amount of work necessary to get the job done. We are optimizers. When faced with a task in everyday life we immediately — whether we know if or not — try to find a way to do it simply. We don’t like over-complicating tasks and […]

Red/Black Achieved

At the end of December, just before Christmas, I tested for my Advanced Red, also known as the Red/Black belt and passed. As with many people around that time of year, wrapping up things at work before taking some time off, holiday stuff, overspending on shopping, and spending time with my family took the majority […]

The History of Krav Maga

This is basically an advertisement for KMG but it’s also an informative look at the history of Krav Maga and what made it what it is today.

Your Weight and Krav Maga

Weight plays a huge role in Krav Maga (no pun intended). Who am I to say, you ask? Well, let’s just say that I speak from experience. As you may know, I started Krav Maga training about two and a half years ago pretty darn obese, maybe even ‘morbidly’ obese. I was carrying all that […]

First Guide is Available!

I realized a while back that the blog posts are okay but sometimes there are topics for which the format just doesn’t handle adequately. These are bigger topics that I feel require more than just several paragraphs to cover sufficiently. So, what to do? Do I create a series of related blog posts over the course […]

Getting and Giving Feedback

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. Elon Musk I have been thinking a lot about feedback lately. I’m talking about in-class feedback, the kind you get in the “heat of battle”, in the midst of […]

Red Belt Achieved (and Happy 2nd Anniversary)

Well, this is a bit overdue.  I celebrated by 2 years of training a month ago on June 1 and earned my Red Belt last week. Life tends to throw things at you that outweigh the blog. Better late than never is what I say! So here I am. Another step closer towards the Black […]

Pre-Training Meal of Champions

A while back I wrote a post about what I eat before sparring. I still do that routine fairly often. Lately however, I had been looking to spruce it up a little bit and ran across the idea of refrigerator oatmeal. It’s a pretty basic idea really: you have a base recipe of rolled oats, […]

Why Do We Want to Be Black Belts?

“If your karate is good enough you do not need a black belt to prove it, and if it is not, then you should not wear one. – Eiichi Miyazato I think my driver changed. No longer am I motivated so much by belts. The strip of cloth we tie around our midsection. Sure they […]