WHAT IS KRAV MAGA?

  Krav Maga is not a martial art by traditional standards. There are no rules for Krav Maga fighting, and no built-in distinctions in training between men and women.It has no sporting federation, and there are no official uniforms or attire, although some organizations, internally, do recognize progress through training with rank badges and different levels.

  Techniques generally focus on training combatants in conditions approximating real-life scenarios. Krav Maga trains combatants for situations where losing would be potentially fatal. Its attack and defense maneuvers aim to neutralize the threat and facilitate rapid and safe escape. These include a variety of fast and fluid crippling attacks to vulnerable body parts through various efficient and often brutal strikes. The improvised use of any available aids is encouraged - maximizing personal safety in a fight is emphasized.

  Krav Maga training programs involve rapid learning, with offensive and defensive techniques introduced from the first lesson and retzev (pronounced ret-zef and meaning "sequencing") playing an important part in both training and maneuvers.

  While no limits are placed on techniques to be used in life-threatening situations, during training the legal need to minimize damage is generally stressed (at least in civilian contexts), and instructors are required to demonstrate how to moderate the techniques to suit the seriousness of the circumstances.

Krav Maga basic training emphasizes the following:

  -Do not get injured or injure training partners.

  -Employ pre-emptive defensive techniques

  -Change quickly from defensive into offensive techniques i.e. respond to an attack with overwhelming force, in the quickest time possible

  -Use the most natural, quickest, reflexes of the body

  -Exploit the opponent's vulnerabilities to their extreme

  -Employ the aid of any available objects

Krav Maga trainees learn to deal first with the immediate threat and then prevent further attacks, if necessary by neutralizing the attacker. Training is conducted in a methodical manner whilst taking account of the practitioners strengths and weaknesses.

Krav-Maga is a lateral system with a unique and logical approach. It is easy to learn and retain, performed naturally and intuitively and can be used practically under stressful conditions. An essential part of KM is its teaching process, methodology and style of training.

Krav-Maga subjects include:

  -Prevention, avoidance, escape and evasion.

  -Dealing with throws and falls to all directions and angles.

  -Attacks and counterattacks, performed to all targets, distances, ranges, heights, angles, directions and in all rhythms.

  -Executed from all positions and postures.

  -Use of all sorts of common objects for defensive purposes.

  -Defending all unarmed attacks: punches, strikes and kicks. Releases from all sorts of grabs and holds.

  -Defending all armed attacks and threats of knife and sharp objects; of sticks bars and other blunt objects; of all kind of firearms.

  -Dealing with the above attacks when sent from all possible directions and places; When are performed by a single or multiple attackers; When occur in all possible places, positions and postures. Including in confined or open areas; in an ally, staircase, car; On all types of grounds; In water; When free or in limited space of movement; While standing, on the move, sitting down, laying down on the back, side or facing down.

  - Physical and mental control and disarm.

KM prepares the trainees to function in all circumstances and scenarios, in all combat and fighting environments, according to their needs, risks they are facing and job descriptions. KM enables and brings technical, tactical, physical and mental growth and improvements.