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Krav Maga - The Kick Butt Self-Defense Training
Not for Sissy Girls
We tomatoes love our yoga for exercise and meditation, Pilates for long lean limbs, strength training for our muscles, and aerobics for everything else. Well let us tell you, after one session of Krav Maga, yoga and pilates is so sissy girl. Krav Maga is the unarmed combat system of Israel’s defense and intelligence agencies and has been adopted by the CIA, US Homeland Security, the FBI, the Secret Service and other macho kinds of guys. But now it’s becoming a fitness phenomenon for the rest of us, especially women. Not only does it teach self-defense, but it’s a workout that promises you’ll get in great shape by building awareness, speed, strength, power, endurance, body conditioning, balance, coordination and flexibility.
Freeze, Flee, or Fight
The head tomato and PTA Mom showed up with some trepidation for our training session with Krav Maga instructor James Sherman in his midtown training studio. James’ clients include singer John Mayer, Olympic Gold Medalist Coach Judith Rifken, and corporate executives, in addition of course to the professionals who are trained to protect and defend. James is one of only six Americans certified in Israel by the Israeli Krav Maga, and he’s the only one certified in New York. After completing intensive training over hundreds and hundreds of hours in the Krav Maga Association’s grueling training camps, he returned to New York where he offers training classes and private lessons. James is a former investment banker, Boston University football player and a New York Sevens Rugby Champion but now spreading the word about Krav Maga is his mission.
James starts each class with this basic - be aware of your surroundings and try not to get yourself into dangerous situations in the first place. Like wandering around totally absorbed in our digital devices oblivious to potential dangers. James then moved quickly into physical attack mode. So what did we do when James simulated strangling us? We froze. And we couldn’t flee, so the next hour was spent teaching us to fight. But at the end of our hour session we had our dukes up, were kicking left to the groin, hurling punches in the venerable neck era, and gouging out eyes. We also fended off a knife attack and an assailant with a gun. Whew! See why we needed that martini? It was definitely empowering and we can’t wait for another lesson.
Interested in joining The Three Tomatoes in a Krav Maga training session with James? Price $35 for a 1 hour class, Wedneday nites at 7PM. (Also available, $280 per person for 10 classes)
email: tomato@thethreetomatoes.com
For more information contact:
917-291-7548
The head tomato wields the knife as James Sherman demostrates a left hand blocking moving and a deadly punch to the neck.
PTA Mom tries robbing James at gunpoint. Maybe she needs to take the Whole Foods bag off her head first?
