Do you have a cup?
No
Ok
That can be a problem.
I...I do have one that you can borrow.
Okay cool
Extra small?
Yeah, perfect.
It's actually very big.
It's Thursday and
I've organized
To have a Krav Maga lesson with Eddie Rivas who's one of the writers for The Know, and he's a Krav Maga instructor
And I have recruited a fellow
trainee
That's me for this exercise and we're both gonna learn Krav Maga together. Yeah, we're gonna be human weapons
Yes
That's definitely what we're gonna be what's gonna happen
So I think what I'm actually going to do is that
Eddie needed someone to
demonstrate all this stuff on
So that I can learn it and say I'm gonna beat miles and basically
He doesn't exactly know. What?
So we're really fortunate to have Eddie
instructing us with this because he's a
Qualified Krav Maga instructor, this isn't like a "this is super easy try this at home kind" of thing
This is gonna ... this has like a lot of context. Just like very specific
Self-defense techniques about it. So this is basically a don't try this at home
And Eddie is gonna give us like a little bit more information on that again and about Krav Maga about what he does
said crash pat that miles is super excited about
I'm gonna tested it out. Yeah, you are oh
Oh
So this is Eddie you guys know him from The Know and other things. So what exactly can you give us an idea and what
exactly that small puzzle piece that we're gonna do today? Sure. And why Miles here?
We work our way up to defending
Against a gun to the front and then defending against a knife and working some disarms for those
We'll start with some basic strikes working our way up through the system one of the cool things about Krav Maga
Is that all the pieces of the system work together to chain kind of up the line so you learn one simple thing?
That's so cool. It moves its way up to the thing. We're gonna treat this like a class if I could ask you guys
Totally okay to have fun with this,
yeah
But because we're working with weapons things that could hurt you or kill you let's not clown around with weapons treat them seriously
Train it like they're real training like they're alive be serious will make your train
But I noticed I noticed that entire part of the like monologue was directed solely to me, and I understand respect that
Yes
Do you know me?
Yeah, what do you think you're here for?
Well, it's different than what I thought it was earlier today
I'm just pumped
You're going to get kicked in the balls a lot.
Ok
I was gonna say I'm just as enthused as ever
But I'm really not.
Yeah? We'll see how you feel about that milk more in a minute
That's what this shit's about this just cuz I made you do rewrites the other day? Yeah, probably. Fuck!
I've just been instructed by Eddie that Miles is gonna appreciate if I take my shoes off.
Awesome
So, first thing we're gonna do...I'm gonna get you holding the pad
Hold the pad here, tight to your chest gonna keep your elbows pinned in nice and tight here. First thing we're gonna do, we're going to work some punches
Not vertical, not horizontal.
45 degrees
Elbow behind them
Go ahead and switch your feet and as you're doing this also make sure that I'm not hyper extending my arm here
I want to leave a slight bend in my elbow so I can penetrate through just a little
Like two to three inches. Okay. As I'm following through the punch
That's the motion to keep your hands safe, and we'll talk about everything else as we go. So Miles what you're gonna
You're going to keep the pad down, down here?
Just gonna throw two punches. It doesn't get easier
So you're going to bring it back down
Every time you want her to punch you just bring it back up, one two
Let's uh, let's keep your hands nice and high in between each one
Nice punches, yeah. Again.
Good, two more.
Good
Punches were our medium range now we're gonna work our long range. I want you to bend here
Hold at right about here
Keep it here. Okay, don't completely straighten them out, but don't believe it too relaxed here, okay, so next thing working
So without the pad without the pad
Without the pad my goal here, I can kick with a ball of my foot
Or I can kick with my shin if I'm a little bit closer
This is really nice for a groin kick. Real nice for a groin kick. Again, my goal when I'm throwing with the shit
I just want to kick fucking all the way up from the shin through his head to the roof. Bobby Hill that shit
Oh my God, it's so scary when you're on the other end of this.
We're about to do this drill where I put together when I just learn and beat Miles up.
Cool
Ready? Yeah. Ok.
Two
One
Good, lower.
Two
One
Four
One
Yeah
Two
All right, so today is a huge
Tough up day for Ellie. I want her to get to the point where she will be an excellent bodyguard
I mean when things go south you have you're ready to step up. You know what I'm saying so
today
We have Ellie
Learning Krav Maga
Hi, Burnie. How are you doing? Doing fine. Yeah? Ellie you're not, er Eddie you're not working them hard enough
Alright, well. I can only interrupt Eddie so many times with dumb jokes before he puts me in a chokehold
So I'm gonna let them do that because that seems dangerous, which is exactly the kind of stuff
I think Elly should be doing on a regular basis ... dangerous stuff
Meatshield. That's her new job. Stay between me and the danger
So
we're gonna take those things we learned and
Translate them up the system to a gun. Problems that we're gonna deal with don't put your finger in the trigger right problems
We're gonna deal with here is just pistol from the front
Things that I really want to do I'm gonna use my hand
Quickest tool that I have to deflect.
I need to redirect the barrel. I need to get it away from me second thing. I have is my body
I want to get my hand to deflect the barrel
I want to get my body out of the way of the pistol. Yeah. Here, my hand is kind of obscured by his arm here
So together same time
And body this goes pointing away
From here and the body pointing the pistol away here my other hand is going to come up near my face
And then I'm gonna grab the back of the hammer here
That's going to give me double control
Hand, body, boom, but I haven't started hurting Miles yet so from here. Whoa Jesus Christ.
Hand, body. Yeah. Double control same time boom
Throw in those kicks that we were working earlier. Bang. Also totally fine solution from here
I can kick him till he throws up, and he's on the ground
Totally fine until he decides
I don't want to hold on to this fucking gun anymore because I'm just doing this putting him on the ground
So then, I'm like really like holding that yeah
Make your weight talk to the gun
Good another quick tweak if I'm here throw this and I end up here if this fingers in if I'm pulling like this
I'm actually pulling into his grip. Yeah. He actually has a stronger hold on so from here. If you need to pop it out
That's why you don't have the finger in there right now
Suddenly, I don't even want to hold the gun anymore. Yeah, so from here. You need to make sure it's 90 degrees here
That's why the finger is not staying in the trigger when we practice with this
Bang. Now step.
'Cause you could like break a finger. Yep
Yeah
So from here
Go ahead and do the whole thing, kick me in the balls
Whoa
If that kick sends me to the ground
You can shoot me
Now this gun is pointed back at you
So that's why the weight has to be setting forward
So even if that dynamic movement
Here, boom.
Go and fall down after I kick you.
So yeah I mean the first time we did this Miles went to the ground.
Yeah I did I was just trying to remember that ulgh
Keep thinning my weight here
When I want to take it
And I want to let go. That was oddly sensual
That was very sss
So what's nice about this?
We've got other solutions and the gun is off to the side or different angles if it's here
There are all kinds of other variations we can do
But there's a lot to be said for training the thing that you're really competent in and you can adapt it right so the guns
Over here, I can do this same thing. I'm just have to spin on my hips a little bit right okay. Yeah bang
Yeah, then throwing that kick if the gun is off to the front a little bit here boom
I'm just gonna have to get my hips involved yeah
Reach, so if this is off to the side. I can do all these things
Yeah, did I just train here, and I couldn't work it into different behind will be a little bit different
But if you can talk your way to turning over to the side and go for it
Do the same thing effect handling with a VIP situation protecting Bernie someone's here pointing the gun you're next to him. Yeah. You can do
the same thing. Okay, yeah.
Okay, ready? Yeah.
Hey what's up I just need some money ugh
Oagh
Nice. That was awesome.
Lady, I don't want no trouble. I don't want no trouble, lady.
Miles, not to self, don't ever trust Ellie again
So I'm you see I'm like real sweaty
I just did my first hour of Krav Maga and my arms feel like noodles
And thank you so much Eddie. Eddie's an amazing instructor. You actually teach in town?
Yes, I teach at a place called Lions Krav Maga here in Austin and
I'm an instructor there for time. You can see on his shirt
Lions Krav Maga. That's so cool
How long have you been doing it for? Uh, seven years. Seven years, so in seven years you can move like a muscly scorpion like Eddie.
Would you say that review is fair, Miles?
I think it's a very ah yeah
Yeah, how scary is it when Eddie comes at you?
You don't even like
It's like being at the opposite end of like a cannon. Right. And you just don't know, you don't know if the cannons
Gonna like kick you in the nuts or break your wrist. But one of those things. It's one of those things all right
Hey, Eddie. We've got a writer's meeting in like an hour so right
Yeah, I think I'm gonna need you to do a few more revisions
Oh my gosh, I actually have to like lie down. My arms hurt so much, I can't be a tripod anymore.
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