This is always one of my favorite topics to bring up, “Drills”.
One thing that makes Krav classes so fun and unique is all of the different and creative drills
that you do. This helps hide repitition and also is a great way to pick up the energy in class.
So let me ask you, whats your favorite drill? Or if you have a new drill or any ideas, please share.
I always enjoy hearing everyones ideas.
Thanks,
Zach
Slc, Utah

I read somewhere that when people are scared & shaky they often can’t dial 911 properly, so I got a couple of dead cell phones for my students to practice on. I ask if anyone in the room is willing to turn their phone completely off so they can use it in the drill, as they’ll get more benefit from practicing on their own phone. I explain first the mistakes people make - in an office they don’t dial “9” first to get an outside line, on a cell phone they don’t hit “send”, older people dial “411” out of habit.  I explain how an adrenaline dump causes the body & brain to refuse to operate properly.  I make the lesson plan previous to this section very physically challenging, so they want to rest for the moment it takes to explain all this stuff.

Then I set the phones on the ground on the far end of the room & have people form lines in front of each phone. One person, someone aggressive & strong, faces each line & holds a kick shield. The trainee’s job is to attack the pad & fight to get past it while the padholder uses strong resistance & yells at the trainee whatever horrible things he cares to yell. Once the trainee finally makes it to the phone the padholder (& I) start yelling out numbers as fast as we can - sort of like when you’re counting out change & someone starts saying random numbers to throw you off. We also chase them around so they have to run while they dial to stress them out even more. Once they’ve successfully dialed “911 SEND” the put the phone down & run to the back of the line.

If there are kids in your life its a good idea to do some version of this with them, so they can practice dialling 911 under pressure.

Hey Parker!

These are great drills!  Thanks for the ideas. Sometimes the simple things are important to emphasize in training.

Thanks!

Yes, that’s a good drill.  You could also do something similar with keys, tire students out and put them under stress, then have them try to get their keys out of their pocket and quickly insert them into the keyhole.  Hard to do when you are shaky and someone’s chasing you.  Could be car keys or house keys.  You could have students punch pads, then, after maybe 20 seconds of non-stop punching have the puncher turn and run, as if he is trying to get away from the assailant after fighting him.  Then have the assailant give chase after a few seconds (giving the defender a bit of a head start, assuming he has temporarily hurt the attacker before he started to run).  The defender then runs to either a car or door and has to insert the key, open the door and get safely inside the house/car before the assailant catches up.  If the attacker gets to the defender before he gets inside, he has to turn and fight him again, then try again to get inside (or maybe just run away).

That could recreate the stress of a real situation and you could also have the defender just walk along the sidewalk, then suddenly have an assailant attack with a choke or bear hug or the like, or even a weapon, such as a knife or stick.  The defender has to defend, then run.  BTW, I always find that putting my left index finger against the key and right next to the keyhole might help insert the key faster under stress, as it keeps my hand (and thus the key) steady and helps to guide the key toward the keyhole.

I like all drills that mimic real situations.  I also love the basic “Circle of Life” drill, where one attack after the other is coming (all weapons, all angles and non-weapons defenses, too).  It’s good to do fast, but I also like to do it half speed sometimes, to train my vision and reaction time, while also trying to keep the techniques as clean as possible.

Holy. Cannoli.  I love this key drill.  I actually know a woman who managed to save her own life by by getting a key to turn a “sticky” lock, when being pursued by assailants. 

This Saturday morning we’ll do it using the door to our school - I don’t want to risk people scratching the paint on a car with their key when I take their ass down.  Wait…what?

Ha ha, we call the “Circle of Life” drill “Monkey in the Middle”. 

Alex, thanks for this drill, this is genius!

Oh, cool, you’re doing it?  Let me know how it went.  We did a drill during Street Clothes Week where we had to punch, then run toward a door or car, however we couldn’t get too close to the door, as it had glass in it and we didn’t want to break it.  Same with the car, pretty BMW, but you could ask around, maybe one of the students has a car that’s a bit older, so you don’t have to worry too much about scratches.  If you find one, you could even continue the drill in that the defender -once inside the car - now has to put the key into the ignition, while the attacker might still be outside, pounding on the vehicle (creating more stress).  And you could also do it in the dark, where it’s harder to see.  Or add a sudden second attacker, or a bystander who may or may not be friendly.

Now off to Multiple Attacker Week at Focus!

Well, Alex, as Borat would say:  Big Success!  We did the drill last Saturday.  It was a really big class.  We all went outside & I had them do non-stop strikes to a punch shield.  Matt & I would attack them randomly with choke from behind & they would defend, then grab the keys we had tossed at our feet, find the correct key as they ran to to the door (20-30 yards away?), and get the door open.  As soon as they ran off with the keys Matt or I would give them 5 seconds, then run and try to attack them before they’d get the door open.  It was so much fun!  One of the best parts was seeing the expressions on the faces of the 6 guests who were waiting in the lobby for their intro class as we attacked people at the door.  We had to reassure the guests that no one would be attacking them like that today.

Best parts: *the grass was pretty high & they’d have to dig for the keys, which would make them all panicky & get us off to a good start.
*Everybody was really game.  Even a woman having only her second class.  She went for it, and didn’t stop fighting even after she accidentally gave me a hard side hammerfist in the face.
*The people who did manage to get in the door before we got to them were all proud of themselves & swaggering back to the group. 
*Every single person who made it in the door left the keys in the lock outside, so that was a good lesson in what not to do.
*Every single person who failed to make it in the door started panicking and fiddling furiously with the locks & just let us attack them.  Not one person turned to face us & fight us.  Another good lesson.

Things to work on:*5 seconds was way too much of a head start.  Too many people made it in the door.  Next time it will be 2 or 3 seconds.
*I was so fixated on attacking people that I forgot to yell out new combatives for the people on the bags to do, so they just did a few of them forever.  Kind of a drag.

Overall I’m thrilled with how it turned out & can’t wait to do it again!

Stole your drill and shortened the head start, it was awesome.  We started on the ground; they had to escape from guard and get to the door, find the correct key, open the door, shut the door behind them.  It ended with a lot of bearhug & headlock defenses for them at the door as they fumbled with the keys.  A few figured out when they heard me shout “go!” to turn back at the person chasing them.  Overall it was a huge success.

BWAHAHAHAHA!  I will now steal your opener.

Wow, this sure sounds like fun!  Wished I’d been there.  I like it that the guests got to see the drill, it’s something they definitely won’t get to see at their local Bally’s.  And it’s the kind of thing they’d tell people about and then those guys will come in just to experience for themselves how cool KM training is.  And good lessons learned, especially about taking the keys with them once they have opened the door!  Next time, if they forget, just open the door and chase them inside (careful not to step on the guests of course, safety first!! : )  )

I liked the drills mentioned above. I decided to add a simple one of my own. I called it the “dead weight” drill. Groups of three or four are needed. There is one striker, one or two pad holders/ attackers, and one “injured” (dead weight) person. The drills starts with the striker working any desired combative for that level with the injured person within arm distance. Instructor calls switch (or once a predetermine set of combatives has been thrown), the striker must carry, drag, move the injured person to the other pad holder by any means necessary then beginning or repeat the previous or a new set of combatives. Striker continues this cycle until time is called.

Kind in mind that this is the basic version. This can be adjusted or ramped up to incorporate self defense techniques, scatter or light out drills, weapons, dizziness/ drunkness, interference and/ or any mixture of combative techniques. Also for individuals who are unable to lift their partners, this can be modified to walking lunges or army crawls.

The trick is they are not thinking about the striking or whatever technique you want them to do but how they have to carry the person therefore repetition is forgotten about.

Let me know if this was unclear. Thanks.

S

Interesting enough is I just saw a video today of a gun seminar John did in Salt Lake and the first 30 seconds basically show you what I was talking about. Link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_GMlseJlw

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tucker2095 - 24 December 2009 11:42 AM

This is always one of my favorite topics to bring up, “Drills”.
One thing that makes Krav classes so fun and unique is all of the different and creative drills
that you do. This helps hide repitition and also is a great way to pick up the energy in class.
So let me ask you, whats your favorite drill? Or if you have a new drill or any ideas, please share.
I always enjoy hearing everyones ideas.
Thanks,
Zach
Slc, Utah

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I always find that putting my left index finger against the key and right next to the keyhole might help insert the key faster under stress, as it keeps my hand (and thus the key) steady and helps to guide the key toward the keyhole.