Really telling conversation a couple days ago where a friend asked me about jiujitsu being the most real-world effective martial art and in order to demystify that I first had to demystify krav maga
@agonist krav maga really is just "do things that work, do not do things that do not work" with exactly that level of specificity. it's baffling.
@agonist I would love to listen to a lecture on this subject
The history of the modern concept of self defense is so tied up with the Israeli state and its concept of what the Self and its legitime Defense constitute