Крав Магу нам не марсиане подарили за долготерпение, как многие полагает. Недавние находки в архивах Принстонского Университета доказывают, что она возникла из маргинальной хасидской школы боевых искусств “Хныкающий Журавль”. Статья знакомит с историей этого единоборства, и его основными стойками, для тех, кто пожелает перейти к практическим занятиям.

“There were three Krav Maga masters: Rabbi Chaim, Rabbi Avram, and Rabbi Baruch of Chelms. Tales of these three rabbis pervade Yiddish literature, and few readers will be ignorant of the story in which Rabbi Baruch, on his way back from the dry cleaners, encountered a group of Tartar dragoons who forced him to dance for several hours out of the erroneous belief that this would improve their credit ratings. Rabbi Baruch complied and spent the time of his dancing working out the ancient puzzle of why God sent all those terrible boils and tight shoes to the Israelites; and at the end of the dance he used the Krav Maga technique called (loosely translated) “Hand Snatches the Lox” to subdue all the Tartars and their horses. They awoke over a week later in Prague, each one the general manager of a profitable delicatessen.” [read full article]