Where am I going with that? Well, it’s a fairly self explanatory statement really, from the perspective of Krav Maga. Don’t allow your ego or an inflated view of your abilities to get you into trouble. It’s more common than you may think, just add bravado from your mates and or alcohol, all of a sudden you have a very inflammatory situation. On the one hand you may have mates egging you on as they want to see you do your stuff, on the other it maybe that you think highly of the skills you have acquired, and believe in your abilities that have so far only been tested in the Dojo. Very dangerou ..read more

First off, let us consider the word Isolation and how that changes the training dynamic. Obviously we can no longer attend our regular class situation whether due to travel or the current self imposed Covid 19 Isolation but, in this day and age we have so many other options at our finger tips. The internet can provide numerous training options from online classes to training videos of all kinds, but we still need to be able to re-invent our own training regime in our own space. It’s not as hard as it sounds, although it will require a little creativity and then some self control / determinati ..read more

What is our purpose? Is it to train women to simply fight off an assailant or is there more to it? The short answer is there’s a whole lot more to it! Our purpose, while delivering an easy system of solutions to learn and use for dealing with the physical side of things should be first and foremost, to encourage a change of mentality on the part of the participant. It’s our responsibility as self defence instructors to convey the message that while we give you the skills to deal with a violent encounter they should be the skills of last resort, not the first or only response. We use the acro ..read more