I wanted to thank the fellows at Premier Martial Arts for putting this on. I know I received a lot out of it and I'm certain that most of the others in attendance did as well. I've been sitting here thinking on it for a couple of days and letting some of the points sink in.
Just as a quick background I have no martial arts training whatsoever. I walked into this class with a very firm base of firearms training but very little in the way of personal defense. This seminar did not aim to turn the attendees into walking neck-breakers. The goal here was to introduce the concept of interpersonal defense that potentially leads up to the employment of a firearm.
I have known myself to be sorely lacking in this area for some time. While I've been moving around a lot with work over the last few years I've always kept my ear to the ground trying to find a small dojo or krav maga group that offered regular classes. Steve and Troy are a class act and working together they make for an extremely effective teaching team. The information presented was akin to a layered system that was scalable in response to the situation at hand. Within the basic systems of blocks and strikes it was relatively easy to move from hands to blades and finally to guns. One thing that was stressed is, "We aren't fighting with a gun. We are fighting and we happen to have a gun (or a knife) in our hands."
There was a lot of information to cover in the four hour span of this seminar, almost too much in fact. That being said the seminar was successful as it gave me a very no-**** introduction to Krav Maga and I am now looking to integrate this into my regular weekly schedule. I would heartily recommend this seminar or any of the related classes at PMA to folks who are serious about doing everything possible to ensure their personal safety.
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P.S. - My notable quote of the day to my girlfriend immediately follow this class: "My arms feel like hamburger!" :lol:
