Last year, a woman who was jogging in East River Park near Jackson Avenue when a man accosted and dragged her by the hair into a nearby amphitheater. Once there, he s*xually assaulted her, stole her cell phone and credit cards, and took off on a bicycle. .
Eve and Rener Gracie made a video discussing possible defenses that the woman could have done in reaction to the hair-grab during an assault. They also discuss how, with some principle-driven jiu-jitsu training, a woman can not only minimize the assailants effectiveness, but turn the tables and use the attacker’s own grip to incapacitate him with a joint lock or a chokehold.
A Kravmaga instructor named Ryan Hoover, responded to the video saying that the hair grab counter with an arm lock was unrealistic and made a caption titled “Cool move, McDojo Sensei!”. Mr Hoover said that the technique “drove him nuts”.
He said that he could not understand bringing the fight to the ground and instead suggested that the woman strike her attacker. This shows a clear difference in self defense concept between Krav Maga and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu.
He stated:
Instructors are flat out lying to the person you love most and giving them a false sense of confidence that may lead to an unfavorable outcome. Why is this happening?? Why are there women’s courses that make training more comfortable for them?? Can we stop this please?!
The Gracies have been doing a tremendous job with Gracie University and Gracie Women Empowered to spread the word about the effectiveness of Gracie self defense.
Mr Hoover, did not dare mention the name of the instructor in the video but MaxBJJ did a great job of putting both videos together.
You can see in the video below:
Here is the original Gracie Breakdown video:
And here is the Kravmaga video:
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