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Whether you're new to self-defense and Krav Maga, or you're looking to freshen up your knowledge because you may not have a Krav Maga training facility near you, this blog is a great place to start for beginners and more advanced practitioners for tactical combat and self-defense techniques. 

Krav Maga For Beginners: 10 Things You Need To Know

Krav Maga For Beginners: 10 Things You Need To Know

Krav Maga is a system of self-defense and fighting tactics that have been developed for the Israeli military. It is an ideal form of martial arts training for beginners because it teaches real-life skills with no fancy moves or sequences. Instead, Krav Maga focuses on instinctive movements and practical techniques that are easy to learn in order to defend oneself in any situation. This blog post will outline some of the basics you should know before starting your Krav Maga training!

 1. Krav Maga is Not Martial Arts

Krav Maga is designed for the realities and dangers of combat. It was developed by Imi Lichtenfeld in Czechoslovakia to give his students a chance at surviving an attack from Nazi soldiers, which are highly trained combatants with advanced weapons.

One of Krav Maga's main tenets is that it doesn't require years of training to be effective as other forms of martial arts do. Instead, one can learn the basic...

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How to Learn Self Defense

How to Learn Self Defense

Out of everything I get asked about martial arts, I think, “How do you learn self defense,” and “How do you learn to fight,” are the two most common things people ask. To anyone looking to learn how to defend themselves, I want to first say, congratulations on the first step. Krav Maga can sometimes feel intimidating especially if you’re a survivor of any sort of violence. Even if you’ve never been accosted but want to take the necessary precautions to get safer, Krav Maga can seem overwhelming. You have the technical combatives of punching, kicking, knees, and elbows, then there are the aggression drills, fatigue drills, defensive tactics, and stress drills which will all test your mindset and may cause you to go into fight or flight mode, and finally there’s the potential emotional catharsis that comes with the mental hurdles you overcome each time you train. Deciding to learn how to defend yourself is a big step...

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The Difference Between MMA and Krav Maga - UFC 259

I often get asked why I do both MMA and Krav Maga and most of the time, people don’t really understand the difference. If you look at a lot of the combatives, strikes, defenses, etc, there’s a lot of similarities: Punches, kicks, knees, elbows, submissions and takedowns are all part of Krav Maga. Yet, they serve completely different purposes. Here’s the best explanation I can give:

MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)

Mixed martial arts is a sport. By nature, sports have confines, rules, regulations, and procedures. This is a controlled environment and because of that the athletes are still (relatively) safe. There is a referee, whose core job objective is to ensure a fight is stopped before too much or irreparable damage is caused to either party. You fight because you want to fight and if you fight professionally, you get paid to fight. When I would fight, I would sign a contract, I would know who I was fighting, what time we were fighting, at what weight and where we were...

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