Honestly I don’t know a ton about Krav Maga, but I’ve heard it depends on the gym so I guess just research the gym. But it’s pretty decent for self defense and probably not very physically demanding.
From my knowledge bjj/muay thai would be way better to learn to fight but both take a good amount of dedication. Both are physically taxing. Like if you go the BJJ route expect to need to train 3+ days a week and be pretty exhausted at the end of training.
That said it’s one of the most fun things I’ve ever done. It’s very cerebral and a bunch of the intelligent people I know who got into it got like legit obsessed.
If you get the opportunity I’d still say check it out and see what you think. There are lots of older guys and nerds in bjj so it’s not only for young athletic guys. Can always drop out if it’s too much/you don’t like it.
It’s kinda what you make it too. I was really competitive so I pushed myself really hard.
I’m not really worried about the age thing. It’s just that I had a lot more time when I was younger and had no kids. These days all my exercise is done in my home gym late at night when the kids are in bed.
Don’t really know for krav maga, for bjj/muay thai you’d look at the instructor, see if they have a competition record/accomplishments or who they got their belt from etc.
I think a simple google search will turn up what you’re looking for. Just google how to find a legit krav maga school and go from there.
I suppose my students don’t know enough about the topic but it’s depressing to me how little they give a shit about giving their most private information to so many nefarious groups. Not only that, but some of them appreciate giving it up so they can “see interesting ads”.
I know that I’ve cut back on using social media use as of late and now mostly use it for remembering birthdays that I would’ve forgotten and posting silly memes.
I mean when people see The Social Dilemma and don’t mind what’s happening, it’s a bad fucking sign.
And buy a new pair of boots, and/or stop working on sloped roofs. I had a pair of boots that made one foot alternately numb and shooting with exposed nerve pain after working on a steep slope for hours at a time.
This was true for a brief period in the 18th century. Civilian casualties for the Seven Years War are shockingly low (with the possible exception of India—not sure), compared with either the Thirty Years War or the Napoleonic Wars. American Revolution civilian casualties are amazingly low for a counterinsurgency war too.
American civil war had low civilian casualties as well. WWI had fairly low civilian casualties on the western front, and if you exclude the Armenian genocide it’s pretty low overall. And I think that’s fair to do, when you think of civilian casualties of a war you don’t think of purposeful internal genocides like the Holocaust.
