Krav Maga Singapore

Krav Maga Academy at Fighter Extreme 2009

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Charlie Webster turns her hand at Krav Maga

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Welcome to the Rock! BUDS Class 242

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Class 242 BUDS Seal Course Phase III

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Frequently asked questions

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How do I get started?
Once you have settled into training with Krav Maga you will have to register yourself with Krav Maga Global for insurance purposes. You will then receive a passport and a handbook to the grading system.

The following equipment is highly recommended: ( some pics attached for reference)
Shin protectors (not the football type)
Boxing gloves /Hand wraps
Grappling gloves

Groin protection /Mouth guard

Grappling rash guard
Wrestling boots
Ear protectors
Workout towel
Water

What sort of people participate?

Krav Maga is suitable for men and women of all ages and all levels of fitness. People who practice and study Krav Maga are those seeking to challenge themselves, find their limitations and go beyond them. Krav Maga offers the student a comprehensive package of self-defense, fitness and a great deal of fun in a friendly training environment. Our students range from those who have no previous martial arts experience, to those who have practiced for more than 20 years.

What happens in class? Will I get injured?
Classes begin with a thorough warm-up. Then, depending on which class is being taught, we will decide what techniques to practice. Krav Maga is taught in an atmosphere as realistic as possible — and in any physical activity there is always the danger of accidents — but safety is always the main priority. Sparring is closely supervised at all times.

Is Krav Maga suitable for women?
Unfortunately, in today's violent society, women are often the victim of attacks. Krav Maga has proved popular with women in the United States and Europe because it does not rely solely on size or strength to be effective. Additionally, the realistic methods of training have given many women the confidence to react
effectively, even under the stress of an attack.

Will I be intimidated when start training?
New students — men and women — sometime feel uncomfortable at the beginning of training, but classes have a friendly and relaxed atmosphere and beginners are made to feel welcome. New students move at their own pace until they are confident with the basic techniques before advancing.
Are there belts or a grading system?

A core belief of Krav Maga is that the ability to remain safe and effectively execute self-defense techniques under pressure matter far more than receiving a new color belt. However, we do recognize that aiming for a higher grade can motivate people to train harder, and therefore improve.
IKMF uses the level system.
What should I wear to class?
Trainers, jogging bottoms and a T-shirt are all that is required to start. Eventually you will want to purchase a Krav Maga uniform, consisting of a Grey T-shirt and black trousers, which are available through your instructor.

The Founder

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Imi Lichtenfeld

Krav Maga was developed in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the 1930s by Imi Lichtenfeld, also known as Imi Sde-Or. (Sde-Or - "Light Field" - is a calque of his surname into Hebrew.) He first taught his fighting system in Bratislava in order to help protect the Jewish community from Nazi militias. Upon arriving in the British Mandate of Palestine prior to the establishment of the Jewish state, Imi began teaching hand-to-hand combat to the Haganah, the Jewish underground army. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Imi became the Chief Instructor of Physical Fitness and Krav Maga at the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) School of Combat Fitness. He served in the IDF for about 20 years, during which time he continued to develop and refine his hand-to-hand combat method. He died in January 1998 in Netanya, Israel.

Expansion outside Israel

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Prior to 1980, all experts in Krav Maga lived in Israel and trained under the Israeli Krav Maga Federation. That year marks the beginning of contact between Israeli Krav Maga experts and interested students in the United States.

In 1981, a group of six Krav Maga instructors under the IKMF traveled to the US to offer demonstrations of the system, primarily at local Jewish Community Centers. This, in turn, led to demonstrations at the New York Field Office of the FBI and the FBI's Main Training Center at Quantico, Virginia. The result was a visit by 22 people from the US to Israel in the summer of 1981 to attend a basic Krav Maga instructor course.
The graduates from this course returned to the US and began to establish training facilities in their local areas. Additional students traveled to Israel in 1984 and again in 1986 to become instructors. At the same time, instructors from Israel continued to visit the US. Law Enforcement training in the US began in 1985.Instructor certification courses are offered every year in Netanya, Israel for qualified individuals.

Training

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( Basic principles)
In Krav Maga, there are no hard-and-fast rules. It is not a sport, and there are no competitions. All the techniques focus on maximum efficiency in real-life conditions. Krav Maga generally assumes a no quarter situation; the attacks and defenses are intended to inflict the most pain possible on the opponent in the least amount of time. Groin strikes, headbutts, and other efficient and potentially brutal attacks are emphasized.

The guiding principles for those performing Krav Maga techniques are:
neutralize the threat
avoid injury
go from defending to attacking as quickly as possible
use the body's natural reflexes
strike at any vulnerable point
use any tool or object nearby

The basic idea is to first deal with the immediate threat (being choked, for example), prevent the attacker from re-attacking, and then neutralize the attacker, proceeding through all steps in a straightforward manner, despite the rush of adrenaline that occurs in such an attack. The emphasis is put on taking the initiative from the attacker as soon as possible.

Techniques in Krav Maga

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Although Krav Maga shares many techniques with other martial arts, such as boxing, and muay thai (for the punches, kicks, elbows, and knees) or jujutsu, judo and wrestling (for the grappling and disarming techniques), the training is often quite different. It stresses fighting under worst-case conditions or from disadvantaged positions (for example, against several opponents, when protecting someone else, with one arm unusable, when dizzy, or against armed opponents).
Training in Krav Maga is a mixed aerobic and anaerobic workout, and relies heavily on pads. Students take turns holding pads and doing combatives against the pads. This is important because it allows the student to practice the technique at full strength, and the student holding the pad learns a little of the impact they'd feel when they get hit. It can be almost as taxing to hold a pad as to practice against one. Some schools incorporate "Strike and Fight," which consists of full-contact sparring intended to familiarize the student with the stresses of a violent situation.

What you can expect

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A typical Krav Maga session in a civilian school is about an hour long and mixes conditioning with self-defense teaching. As levels increase, the instructors focus a little more on complicated and less common types of attacks, such as knife attacks, hostage situations and defense under extreme duress. First, the instructor will run a very intense drill to get the class's heart rates up. Then, after stretching, the instructor will teach two or three self-defense techniques.

In the beginning the techniques will either be combatives (punches, hammer-fists, elbows, knees and roundhouse kicks, for example) or grappling (breaking out of chokes or wrist-grabs, getting out from under an opponent while on one's back). After that, the class usually moves to a drill that combines the techniques just taught with an aerobic technique. Finally, there is the final drill intended to burn out the students. Depending on the class - this drill may be at the very beginning or at the end of the class.

Who uses Krav Maga in Singapore

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In 1964, Grandmaster Imi Lichtenfeld finished his military service and adapted Krav Maga to civilian frameworks. In Israel, Krav Maga is introduced to elementary and high school students on the national curriculum, and is taught at the Wingate Institute,one of the world's leading physical fitness centers. It is taught to men, women, and children under the auspices of the Israeli Ministry of Sport and Education.
Krav Maga is the official system of hand-to-hand combat and self-defense employed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Security Forces, the Israeli Police and Military Police and its Special Operations and Anti-Terrorist Units. The IDF including their Special Forces Units, Israeli Police, and Internal Security Branches currently uses this style on a day-to-day basis.

Krav Maga is taught to all ages and abilities, at community centers, schools, and clubs throughout the world. Krav Maga is taught to Sky Marshals, commercial airline crews. It is also taught in Australia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Croatia, France, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Poland, Japan, Thailand, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Denmark, New Zealand India and here in Singapore.

In Singapore, personnel from various law enforcement agencies and military units around have received training in Krav Maga under the IKMF, including SOTF, Special Operations Task force, SECOM Police Security Command, Military Police Command & Prisons SPEAR just to name a few.

The Various Levels in Krav Maga under KMG

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Within Krav Maga Global, the following system is used:
The present grading system for (Civilian) Krav Maga is divided into four major categories.

The first three are Practitioner, Graduate and Expert. Each of these is further divided to 5 levels, each with a specific curriculum and requirements. Grading tests to pass from one rank to the next contain technical, theoretical and tactical subjects covering self-defense and fighting skills. The highest category of grades are the Master levels of which there are three. Anyone wishing to test for any Expert level must generally do this in Israel as it requires a minimum of two members of the Grading Committee (Eyal Yanilov or any of the other Expert Level 5 members of the Israeli Global Instructor Team) to be present at the grading.

Aside from the civilian system, KMG has Military, Law Enforcement, Security and VIP/Close Personal Protection syllabus. Each syllabus has its own grading criteria and is generally only taught to people with employment in the relevant fields. Instead of Practitioner and Graduate levels, the Military and Law Enforcement Systems have Fighter, Warrior and Operator levels, whereas the Close Personal Protection Syllabus grades are Bronze Shield, Silver Shield, Gold Shield and Platinum Shield

My CV

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I Served 12 years in the Singapore Armed Forces,10 of which was with HQ Commando/ Special Operations Force.
I served in SOF where I specialized in Marine-time Operations, during my tour I was sent for different courses to facilitate the requirements of my job scope, I served my last 2 years in the department as the Senior Medical Specialist where I was Head of the Medical Cell, mainly in charge of medical proficiency of the SF Medics, Programmes & training in terms of Medical requirements, some of my work experience included training with various foreign counterparts.

Some of the courses I have attended during my tour in Special Forces

1. Basic Commando Training (served in 3rd Company).(1996)
2. Commando Section Leader Course 32nd batch, (served in 3rd Company as a Platoon Sergeant). (1996)
3.26th SAF Ranger course (1998)
4. Airborne Course Class 151 (1998)
5. Basic Military Freefall Course (1999)
6. Advance Military Freefall (High Altitude Parachute Operations) 9th Batch
8. Combat Medic Specialist level II / Para Medic Level II (2003)
9. Underwater Medic Level I 2001
10. US Navy Basic Underwater Demolition Seal Class 242 (2002-2003)
11. Combat Diver Class II, 21 Batch (NDU) (2001)
12. Krav Maga Military/Law Enforcement intensive training Level 1 (Best Trainee) 2004
13. ASP Baton Instructor Course registration no 22755 (2004)
14. ASP Tactical Handcuff Instructor Course registration no 607(2005)
15. Krav Maga Instructor G1 (Civilian) registration no 004159( 2006)
16. SKD Kali Tactical Level 1(2006)
17. Special Operations Force Counter Terrorist Course 17th Batch.

I am currently the Chief Instructor & Director of Krav Maga Singapore under the IKMF & have been teaching Krav Maga for the past 4 years coming.
If you would like to learn directly from the source, I seriously advise you to attend all the different Krav Maga courses that others are promoting here in Singapore, only then can you see what the difference is......

Realistic training.....

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Jennifer Lopez Krav Maga fighting(enough)

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J-Lo Training in Krav Maga Women's Self-Defense

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Krav Maga - military

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Human Weapon - Krav Maga - Choke Defense

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Human Weapon - Krav Maga - Buttstroke

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Human Weapon - Krav Maga - Bursting

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Human Weapon - Krav Maga - 360 Defense

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Human Weapon Krav Maga - Training

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Krav Maga Strasbourg.

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Eyal yanilov Interview, Krav-Maga

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kravmaga israel - 3 (IKMF)

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Human Weapon History of Krav Maga

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Krav Maga Personal Training

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Krav Maga Personal Training

You wanna learn how to defend yourself & your loved ones but
1.Travel a lot & hardly have time to train?
2.Feel initmidated by other people training around or with you?
3. Want to attain a higher level of proficiency in a shorter duration of time?
4. Are being called to another country for work where Crime rates may be of concern?

Drop me an email should you be interested to see what & how Personal Training in Krav Maga can help you @ singaporekravmaga@gmail.com

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Be involved in the hottest Self Defense System now sweeping the world.Krav Maga is a defensive tactics system taught to Israel's security and military units. It is not a martial art. Its roots were in the formative days of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, but it has now been expanded to include civilians.Krav Maga is probably the most widely practiced defensive tactics system in the world today, being particularly strong in northern Europe and the west coast of the US. In those regions it is part of the defensive tactics syllabus for many police, security and specialist military units. Krav has three streams, one for civilians and two specialist streams, one for law enforcement/security and another for military personnel.

Horizontal system
Krav Maga's strength is that it is a 'horizontal' or integrated system, that is, it covers the full spectrum of confrontational situations from standing striking, ground fighting, control and restraint, empty hands versus weapons and use of weapons such as knives, sticks and everyday items.

Deals with the Multiple Opponent Problems
It is one of the few systems to specifically and methodically addresses the multiple opponent problems as part of the syllabus. The majority of martial art systems inadequately address this issue in a formal and structured way and in a way that reflects what truly happens out there. For most martial arts, the 2 or 3 versus one sparring that is sometimes practiced is simplistic and unrealistic.

The Weapon Problem
In comparison with other systems it is very strong in empty hand versus weapons, a reflection of the sad fact that it is based in a region of everyday violence. All weapons are dealt with, from knives and clubs, to handguns, automatic weapons and even hand grenades. Krav Maga's methods in this area are very superior and it has answers for weapon threat situations for which other systems would have no answer.

Psychology of Combat
Krav Maga betrays its roots in the military and security forces by the way it deal with the impact of heightened emotional states during conflict on the ability of a person to function effectively. As a formal part of the training method it has a devious array of structured drills for putting the student under psychological pressure during training to simulate anxiety levels during a confrontation. Safety is a prime concern of Krav Maga, so exercises that are used by the military and security forces are toned down for civilians.

Environmental Training
Environmental training is a key part of the system with training conducted in all manner of places, from stairs and hallways, in rain (snow and ice in Europe), in the dark while possibly wearing restrictive clothing or uniforms etc. We think this is important as the student must be able to quickly adapt their technique to the environment.

Rapid Learning and Short Reaction Times
Krav Maga is a good example of what could be termed a 'root movement' system. It's approach is to take one action and use it to solve as many self defense problems as possible rather than attempting to find an optimum (and hence unique) solution for every situation. Given the number of physical variables involved in a confrontation, the optimum but unique approach results in too many techniques to remember.Under pressure and possibly in less than optimum environmental circumstances(that is outside the training hall) the ability to recall and correctly perform that unique solution is very problematic. The killer is that having greater choice increases reaction time. Vital fractions of a second are lost.Moreover, more techniques means training time has to be spread more thinly over the greater number of movements. Better to have fewer movements and movements that are adapted to new situations meaning the student learns more rapidly and hence under pressure will react in less time.