The founders of Israel Defense Forces Krav Maga Imi Lichtenfeld (Sde Or), Eli Avikzar's and Boaz Aviram all considered based on their role in the Israel Defense Forces Krav Maga Chief and following Imi Lichtenfeld and the Israel Defense Forces Principles of Intensive Objective and Quality Control in training, influence on Krav Maga and their students thereafter...The pivotal breaks in the authentic objective and quality control of Krav Maga... The chronological possibilities of Civilian Students and lineage and past and future fake lineage and knowledge claimants... The Civilian Association ..read more

While you are reading these short and concise few pages of Objective (goals in layman’s wording), I’d like you to keep in mind that these objective are to be achieved in drilling a 21 hour core curriculum. What does a 21 Hour Core Curriculum mean? It means 215 techniques and 15 Training drills, including a demonstration of Pressure points and discussion about the human reaction time and situational awareness in depts. It does not include warm up time for the training itself. Sufficient warm time is determined on how this 21 hour core curriculum is broken into segments of training time. For ea ..read more

Regardless of what they teach, the common objective of Combat Sports and Hand to Hand combat sparring is to demonstrate control over the opponent through reach and manipulation or the ability to manipulate pressure points first without letting the opponent to do it.   So even when marking impact, the distance has to be closed with a lunge and the punch or kick not fully extended so it could have been extended when it needed to reach. In defensive striking, there is no lunge, just foot adjustment for balance and timing extension of the striking limb.   If you sense the at ..read more

  It’s not that hard to kill a person. There is enough media out there that give most people good idea. Element of surprise, vital points bare hands or weapons and there you go. But the idea is to train an average person not to get killed while someone is trying to kill him. Anything can help like fitness strength wisdom decision making and surprise. But if you take all the elements and break them down and compare the human body to a fortress and devise a training plan to break the fortress in full day light while he can try to stop you, then you have a good training system. The key is ..read more

What I noticed is that someone listing teaching various arts as self defense such as Judo Karate Jujitsu and Boxing. I am sure he is not going to have the time to teach the black belt curriculum in each style.  So you have two styles of punching one style of blocking and one style of punch evasion and two styles of grappling... But it all has to be modified, and in fact these systems had to be modified for the purpose of self defense, as they are some competitive sports and some not so competitive at the time.  I mean teaching something is better than nothing, and getting a glimps ..read more

These four images demonstrate the tactical philosophy of H2H Combat bound by the human reaction time! A variety of elements can be found in these photos, like whether to use the left hand or right hand against the attacker's right hand according to the speed of reach in the race against the human reaction time. Your mind should reflect on the decision of whether to use the left or right hand against the attacker's right hand to avoid discovery of the defense by the attacker where the field of vision is greater as well.  The thing is when photos are sparse and you try to show things by ..read more

No one can see exatcly what was in Immi's mind when he developed Krav Maga. However when you compare Krav Maga Techniques to the rest of the Martial Arts, and all the information books photos videos and students of students in lineage of their creators teachings, you can see that Bujustu branched sports and recreation training methods which contributed to in depth elaboration of the art of war but at the same time contributed to lax perception and over simplification.  Many times techniques were taken from approch to one pressure point in the human body and added to another pressure poi ..read more

Belts are traditional in some commercial Martial Arts Sports! Gigoro Kano the founder of sport of Judo was the first to use the Current Belt Ranking System. Belts are displaying the current rank, level and mastery of the curriculum of a system! Generally, you go though some favorite, some OK and some shit colors until you get to a black belt which is a nice color! Then you become an artist and delve in combinations of red and white… But Krav Maga became at his height in the 1980’s a short intensive comprehensive training system in the Israel Defense Forces. The 21 hour core curriculum of wal ..read more

I keep getting peer advice to simplify my books and publish self defense for women! I have two books! The first is “Krav Maga – Use Your Body as a Weapon”. The book is about 320 pages with over 1,000 film strip photos and 200 pages of pure text. The second is “The Krav Maga Expert!” This book is about 530 pages of pure text. The first book presents the 21 hour core curriculum of the Israel Defense Forces Krav Maga Training System!  There are tons of details in the 200 techniques and 15 training drills done over 21 hours. The book programs your mind and the training method will program y ..read more

Respect to all these hand to hand combat instructors that were put in a military role of conditioning soldiers to combat. Competent or not they were put in a role, job, selected or fell into it.  Many were serious with inclination to either preserve the traditional dojo or fighting sport branch or branches of which they came from, and some were even courageous to realize and seek and develop modified training methods.  Most folk would never know what really happened, but through reading news and books will try to get a glimpse of history. No one while in a military capacity will be ..read more