How to Keep Your Krav Maga Real with Environmental Training
The moral of the story is that you should get out into your environment as much as you can. The more unpredictable your training conditions, the better you’ll be at adapting to real-life conflict. Try to train in different conditions where the floor is uneven, wet, hard, in different weather conditions, train on the sand, train in confined spaces, and so on. It’s important to constantly change the variables. Like working out, it is said the more variety, the better your body responds. Get your brain used to knowing that the environment must be understood. You’ll learn to consciously recognise what’s happening and you’ll wire your brain to better adapt to changing conditions going forward. The more ‘new’ experiences you create the more neural pathways your brain will create, making it easier for you to function and make the best choices for reality – because now your will mind has references from previous experiences to act from. The first time you go out kicking and punc...