About Krav Maga

Krav Maga, which translates into English as “Contact Combat”, was first developed for the Israeli Defense Force. It is the system for unarmed defensive tactics and survival.

Founder

Krav Maga was developed by Imi Lichtenfeld who served as the very first Commander of the IDF’s Hand-to-Hand Combat and Physical Fitness Training Section. Imi’s system became the official Hand to hand-to-hand combat system for the entire Israeli Defense Force, including the Special Forces, and remains the official system to this day. As time went on the system evolved in the IDF to arm soldiers with the necessary mindset, strategies, and tactics to survive threatening close-quarters encounters in the field. The focus of Krav Maga is not to teach the soldier/officer how to fight, but rather how to dominate and terminate a threatening situation as quickly as possible.

It is not a Martial Art system, it’s a tactically channeled scientific approach to engaging a threat in close quarters. It is based on instinctive response, allowing the system’s tactics to be learned and effectively applied in minimal time. Krav Maga’s unique approach is that its strategies are focused on dominating the human mind and mitigating the threat’s instinctive reactions keeping the attacker in a constant state of mental shock preventing him from initiating or continuing his attack.

Krav Maga was developed to provide effective solutions to the conditions in which Israeli soldiers, police officers, and security personnel are engaged in the field, including facing armed attacks, multiple attackers, determined and suicidal attackers that deploy maximum violence, and ambush attacks. The system’s mindset and strategies are designed for success in a concept called the Negative Five. This concept is an Israeli Military training concept that is applied to the three main subject matters in the Israeli National Security framework: Krav Maga, Tactical Shooting, and Counter Terror Warfare. This concept assumes that when an IDF soldier gets attacked, that soldier will be in the worst-case scenario physically, tactically, and mentally unprepared for the sudden attack. The true military Krav Maga platform adheres strictly to this concept and therefore represents tactics that can provide the most effective responses for survival from real-life violence.

Krav Maga is the tactical system used by one of the most active military and police forces in the most violent conflict zone in the world. This fact allows the methodologies to be constantly field-tested and ensures their effectiveness.  It also means that it is kept up to date with the modern and evolving threats of the battlefield and streets.

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