Krav Maga is a fast, highly effective, reality based self defence system. Krav Maga (‘Contact Combat’)
Krav Maga is extremely easy to learn as its actions are based on the body’s natural defence instincts. Therefore a practitioner can expect to become proficient very quickly.
The system has been adopted by the Israeli Defence and Security Forces and has been used in some of the most severe combat settings of this century amidst Nazi terrorism, the combat of World War II, and the extremely violent military confrontations of the Middle East.
Krav Maga is a hand-to-hand Combat System
Krav Maga is a hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel which involves wrestling, grappling and striking techniques, mostly known for its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks, as it is also taught to elite special forces around the world.
It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Imi Lichtenfeld (the founder of Krav Maga), who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler, as a means of defending the Jewish quarter during a period of anti-Semitic activity in Bratislava in the mid- to late 1930s.
In the late 1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide hand-to-hand combat training to what was to become the IDF, developing the techniques that became known as Krav Maga. It has since been refined for both civilian and military applications.
Threat neutralisation
Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasising threat neutralization, simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers, and aggression. Krav Maga is used by the IDF Special Forces units and several closely related variations have been developed and adopted by law enforcement and intelligence organisations.