Krav Maga is an Israeli martial arts system employed by their military and special forces that emphasizes realism and practicality in extreme situations. It borrows techniques from many different martial arts including but not limited to boxing, judo, jiu-jitsu and wrestling.

Compared to many other martial arts, Krav Maga is more practical and focuses on real life self defense situations that could be life or death. Situations like fighting multiple opponents or even how to defend yourself against an armed attacker are all part of the Krav Maga curriculum.

Though not usually seen in modern MMA competition, Krav Maga’s main emphasis is on self-defense and many of its techniques such as groin attacks or even eye gouging are illegal in MMA.

In this YouTube video we get a glimpse of some of the techniques and training from expert Amir Perets. He stresses the importance of always being alert of your surroundings which is very important when it comes to self-defense.

Amir shows in the video how to defend yourself when someone has a gun to your back, which is a dire situation for even the most seasoned martial artists. He also goes over a way to stop someone from moving forward using only one finger, but to be honest that one seems more like a carnival trick than anything.

The most interesting and impressive part of this video is near the end however when he takes on an attacker while blindfolded. “He has no idea where the attacker will be coming from or what he’ll do,” according to the narrator. The attacker comes at Amir from behind and Amir just grabs him and beats the living hell out of this poor guy all while blindfolded.

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Now had that been a BJJ black belt and fully locked out the rear-naked choke it would have been a little different but Amir’s skills and awareness while blindfolded is still impressive nonetheless.