Now that I have started Level 2 training in Krav Maga, there is a definite increase in the focus on groundfighting. In class last week we did a drill where you sit back to back with your partner and "go". Talking with the other female students, I realized how we all felt like fish out of water in this area of self defense.
My friend mentioned how weird it was that the male students seemed to "just know" what to do on the ground, and we females were kind of lost without step by step instructions. Nothing in my previous EPAK training prepared me for this. I thought about my two boys and how they play wrestled eachother to the ground regularly (okay, sometimes it's not play). Remembering my own childhood, my sisters and I never wrestled. My friend commented to one of the guys, "wrestling is kind of how you guys say Hi."
So I don't know if it's nature or nurture, but I need help overcoming the psychological barrier I seem to have about fighting on the ground. It's weird and scary to me, but I also realize that that is precisely why I need to learn it. I can't pick and choose where and how I am attacked.
Also, is there anything I can do outside of class that would help?
My friend mentioned how weird it was that the male students seemed to "just know" what to do on the ground, and we females were kind of lost without step by step instructions. Nothing in my previous EPAK training prepared me for this. I thought about my two boys and how they play wrestled eachother to the ground regularly (okay, sometimes it's not play). Remembering my own childhood, my sisters and I never wrestled. My friend commented to one of the guys, "wrestling is kind of how you guys say Hi."
So I don't know if it's nature or nurture, but I need help overcoming the psychological barrier I seem to have about fighting on the ground. It's weird and scary to me, but I also realize that that is precisely why I need to learn it. I can't pick and choose where and how I am attacked.
Also, is there anything I can do outside of class that would help?