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  • Since Krav Maga is the only Israeli “martial arts” I know about, and the Mossad does use the training methodology and the civilian-private sector offshoots do advertise such usage, it would not be beyond the odds for it to be the same thing.

    Anybody know about a Martial Art called “Kavanah”? « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2009

  • If you want to developp a “warrior spirit”, I think Krav Maga is the way to go.

    I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant 2010

  • I never took Krav Maga, but there was a group that met in the same place as my Tae Kwon Do classes and damn, Krav Maga is clearly * awesome*. compassiontara, on March 7, 2010 at 9: 37 pm Said:

    An Outlaw’s Insurance Policy « Bound, Not Gagged 2010

  • And without a word Maga kicked the shoes and stockings into a corner, flung her outer, woolen upper-garment after them, and began to dance.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • _Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine_ -- popularly _Blackwood's_ or "Maga" -- and henceforth until his death Blackwood was his own editor.

    Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

  • a word Maga kicked the shoes and stockings into a corner, flung her outer, woolen upper-garment after them, and began to dance.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Like mixed martial arts (what the Ultimate Fighters do) or Krav Maga, which is supposed to be one of the few self-defense things that actually works in real life.

    I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant 2010

  • Even in Krav Maga, which is billed as an instruction program for Israeli army, commando, spy agencies, the key emphasis was still, in the video at least, incapacitate/disarm/knockdown the target and then run away.

    What up? « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2009

  • When I sat down to it I knew it would be a long book, though I didn't foresee that it would spread itself over thirteen numbers of 'Maga'.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • But she lifted the nearest two, Barret's "Maga," and "The Veiled Prophet," and rather dismally asked which it was to be?

    The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

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