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Krav Maga was taught monthly as part of my military training, and classes were free. It's definately no non-sense, no frills, easy techniques. No tricks, none of that fancy stuff to memorize and do over and over before it becomes effective. It's not really designed to be elegant and fun to watch, it's fast and brutal--but effective. Having said that, I'm not sure I would have rather learned Krav Maga or aikido. Aikido has a lot of cool stuff that is really effective with weapon retention and disarming, a buddy of mine teaches it here in town and I have taken several classes for both.

That said, our instructors in the military always said, "Krav maga is awesome stuff, but not ideal. We issue you rifles and handguns and make you all experts with both so that you dont have to punch the enemy--you just shoot them."