Over the past couple of months, I've been thinking about my loves of creativity and Krav Maga and wondering if there is some sort of overlap between the two I could discuss here. But is Krav Maga really creative or is it just a way to defend yourself against an attacker? I guess you can be pretty creative about the way you deliver an onslaught of strikes against someone, but that's kind of a stretch for a creativity blog. And maybe a little too aggressive.
But this week, I had the opportunity to sit down with the lead instructor of my gym, Carl, and a few of my friends who are considering becoming instructors. Carl talked about his desire to create more of a Krav community and how, after an exodus of experienced practitioners from the gym after it became more focused on cardio than self-defense, he wanted to quickly train up people who had been coming for a few years so that newer people had someone they could look up to and learn from.
And then the group talked about creative warm-up drills we could incorporate that would introduce Krav Maga movements the instructors would be teaching later in the class (kind of like wax on/wax off from Karate Kid).
So yeah, there it was. Using creativity in my Krav Maga gym. Twice in one night! But I guess it shouldn’t have been that much of a surprise, because if you really look for it, there is creativity in everything people are doing.
