As most people are aware, there are various dangers in commuting and traveling in the metropolis. This, among other factors, has contributed to the popularity of self-defense training and martial arts. One of these is Krav Maga: a system of martial arts rising in popularity among instructors and amateur enthusiasts. It has spread across fields of practice, from its beginnings in law enforcement to civilian self-defense training. And it has spread across the world, from its origins in Israel. Now Krav Maga has also reached the Manila.
It was was developed by Imre "Imi" Lichtenfeld. Born in Hungary, he grew up in Bratislava, where he developed his athletic abilities and employed them in wrestling and boxing. During his youth, he became involved in street riots, where he began to think about developing fighting skills which could be used in everyday circumstances. The basic techniques of Krav Maga focus upon decreasing and foiling aggression, as well as practicing defensive and offensive methods to deflect an adversary's threat. Students are given instructions for situations that often occur in street assaults or hand-to-hand combat.
Krav Maga has been referred to and made various appearances in different areas of popular culture. Krav Maga has been utilized to train actors for action sequences, and there have been characters who are themselves are practitioners. In the television series Numbers, one of the characters, named Megan Reeves, is an FBI agent who also a Krav Maga instructor. Megan Reeves is a psychological profiler, one who deals in criminal behavior, and studies the possible ways of how people who exhibit such traits will act in specific situations. She is depicted as a skilled marksman, and sometimes assumes the role of leader when the head of the team , named Don Eppes, is called away elsewhere.
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