KRAV MAGA PATTAYA SELF DEFENSE CLASS UPDATE

New Krav Maga Pattaya Class. Street Self Defence Martial Arts in Thailand.

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Private Krav Maga Self Defense Lessons in Pattaya Thailand, from Tactical Krav Maga Self Protection Instructor Gerry Nolan.

If you are visiting Pattaya or Jontiem area for holiday or vacation or long stay in Pattaya, Banglamung or Chonburi, Thailand, and you want to learn simple effective easy to do basic self defense skills unlike any other style martial arts.

Private Krav Maga lessons one to one is one of the best ways to learn fast, and the individual attention and instruction will certainly rocket your learning speed & ability to defend yourself.

So far, aside from regular self defence private students, we have trained one on one people from all over the world you come here on vacation, some of whom work very hands on jobs such as Police, Military & Security work, where the ability to defend themselves with a proven system can make life survival.

Please email Gerry on the following email address gerry (AT) kravmagathailand (DOT) com

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Krav Maga Explained...

Krav Maga Explained:

Krav Maga is the official self defense and hand to hand combat system of Israel and is the most battle tested self defence and hand to hand combat system in the world today. The English translation of the Hebrew name means contact fight. The system was created and developed by Grand master Imi Sde-Or 1910-1998. Imi originally developed the system for the Israel Defence forces (I.D.F) and other national security services. The principle of the system focus's on the natural reactions of the body when threatened or attacked by an armed or unarmed assailant or assailants. The beginner student will be surprised how quickly they learn to react fast and without hesitation to many different types of threat and attack. The system is used by the FBI, S.W.A.T teams and many other elite military and police units throughout the world.

Today Krav Maga has been developed to meet civilian needs throughout the world and has since gained interest with civilians and celebrities and the system is widely used by military and law enforcement personnel. Krav Maga is an ideal self defense system for men and women, and children of all ages and physical abilities - anyone can take part without any previous martial arts background. On browsing the internet you will discover that Krav Maga training is available to all at venues such as sports centres, martial arts schools and dedicated Krav Maga training centres.

A typical Krav Maga training session combines aerobic training with self defense techniques. Emphasis is put on speed, endurance, strength, accuracy and co-ordination especially for intensive Krav Maga training. According to medical and fitness experts, Krav Maga training provides a superb full-body workout. If you are already a martial artist, you will find Krav Maga to be an excellent addition to your training!

Krav Maga training focuses on teaching simple Krav Maga techniques which are specifically catered to reality based attack situations and specifically designed to get quick results in a short training period. With self defense as a goal, the Krav Maga programs teach students to expect the unexpected.

In today’s world you never know when you might have to defend yourself or somebody else from an unprovoked attack. The system will teach you how to defend yourself against various situations such as chokes, strangles, kicks, knife and weapon threats to name a few. Krav Maga training also carries the additional benefit of greatly improving your physical fitness while increasing your confidence that comes from not being afraid in threatening situations. Krav Maga training will also teach the student to be more aware of their surroundings at all times in order to avoid attack while gaining a greater understanding of reading body language and understanding the body’s vulnerable areas and pressure points.

Increasingly popular with women, Krav Maga is tailored for the average person, combining psychological preparation, strong will, and physical skill. The combination of interesting training and potentially useful Krav Maga techniques for present-day situations has made Krav Maga the success that it is today.

Aidan Carroll is the chief Krav Maga Instructor and Certified Personal Fitness Trainer with http://www.kravmaga.ie and http://www.focusfitness.ie.

P.S. I am going to keep this a Secret! The decided to let you in on the Good News...

Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense 5 day seminar Thailand 15 Apr - 19 Apr 2008

FAST TRACKING KRAV MAGA COURSE PATTAYA THAILAND 15 Apr - 19 Apr 08
(5 days training 8 hours per day)

Designed for the person who wants to learn the Tactical Krav Maga fighting system from A - Z and who wants to take their training to a new level. This course will cover the TKM system against single and multiple armed and unarmed attackers, applying krav maga to reality based self defence situations in beautiful Pattaya, Thailand.

Monday & Wednesday 645pm - 800pm group adult classes in Pattaya. Please contact Gerry for more information. Private Lessons available. Krav Maga Self Defense Pattaya Thailand

Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense 40 hour 5 Day Pattaya Thailand Seminar Completed

We have just completed our Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Fast Track 40 hour 5 Day Pattaya Thailand Seminar. Students came from all corners of the global from pure beginners, to massive sized MMA fighters, to small Thai girls who mastered were to land a sharp fast knee in record time! OUCH!

This training hours wise, clocks up to almost 5 months training when compared to regular martial arts class in any martial arts school across the globe.

It was amazing to see the real street krav maga self defense skills developed by students over the 5 days, under excellent teaching from Chief Instructor Carl Halley, and me Gerry as the "crash test dummy" who was the attacker in all live drills and demo's all week. Where's that Tiger Balm!

I shall post up more details and photo's over next few days, please check back to our Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand Blog in a few days.

Thanks to all for coming.

Gerry

Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand Pattaya Bangkok Martial Arts Website

P.S. Good News! We are running a new 5 day Krav Maga Self Defence seminar in April 2008 in Pattaya Thailand, with some extra fun surprised! Stay Tuned!

How to Learn Krav Maga Self Defense Quickly & Fast

Bearhug Escape Krav Maga Thailand 07/2007

Can Krav Maga be learned quickly & fast to gain basic effective self defense skills in a short period to time?

Great Question!

The reason for how Krav Maga was developed and exists today as a very popular Reality Based Self Defense system not only for ordinary civilian's, with KM also used not only by Israeli forces (IDF), many other army & police forces use it around the world today , will answer the question for you.

Krav Maga was developed to teach Israeli Army Soldiers in the shortest possible time, a lethal, simple, deadly system of fighting unarmed attackers and to defeat attackers with weapons (sticks, guns, knives). Remember soldiers are not full time martial artists, unarmed fighting is only a very small part of the skills they learn. So they must developed unarmed hand to hand combat skills that are deadly, effective under pressurised situations, simple to learn, simple to use, and easy to learn, which means you can learn, remember, and most important use them, after minimal training.

Live Full On Tactical Krav Maga Escape Drills.
Krav Maga Thailand Workshop July 07.



Krav Maga has its roots in Combatives hand2hand combat formulated & used by Allied Commandos & Allied undercover agents (OSS, SOE), which is a simple, basic, brutal aggressive self protection system.

So basically, I have answered the question I asked at top of this blog post. (Ok I knew the answer anyway, as a Krav Maga Instructor its good to know a bit of the history of the system).

So what does this mean to you?

The good news is that you can learn basic & effective, proven self defense skills which you will be able to use, especially if you have serious desire to really learn, in a short period of time.

The other day I was adding up the hours, & based on the idea that (which is a correct idea based on all my own years in Martial Arts, where I have seen many people come and go), the average Martial Arts Student, trains on average twice a week in a martial arts class which is usually 1 hour per class. So it takes 5 months without missing any classes to get 40 hours training done. Miss a few classes here and there, and your up to 6 months before the martial arts student clocks up 40 hours of training, alot of which is not very effective for reality street self defense.

40 hours, over 5 days, which is 8 hours training per day, will give you the same training hours clocked up which take up to 6 months for the average MA student. Add in a fighting system which is 100% aimed at street self defense with some real drills and alive training, as opposed to the more traditional martial arts training, and you are really making serious progress.

Right now, we just have completed day 3 of our 40 hour 5 day Tactical Krav Maga seminar which started Tuesday 23 October here in Pattaya. Our students in 3 days, have complete as many hours as the 3 month martial arts students, however due to the realism, the 100% focus on street self defense, simple, easy to learn and easy to do tactics we teach, the progress everyone has made so far is amazing.

Krav Maga Reality Self Defense Drill Full Contact.

Bangkok Seminar July 07. Krav Maga Thailand.

I am actually really looking forward to seeing on Saturday evening when we finish our course, to see how everyone has improved. That will be 5 months worth of hours training in Tactical Krav Maga clocked up for everone who completed the 5 day intensive course, and its amazing to see over a few days, a we are just 60% through the seminar as of today Thursday 25 October 2007, how everyone has those who are pure beginner, to those with experience, has developed self defence skills that will help them survive a street attack, or better, avoidence skills to avoid getting attacked in the first place.

Krav Maga Reality Self Defense Drill Full Contact.
Bangkok Seminar July 07. Krav Maga Thailand.

So yes, the answer is, if your taught in the correct way, you will find, getting back to the original aim of Krav Maga, it is simple, dead, proven, and to be learned quickly!

Perhaps you will join us for our next Fasttrack Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand in April 2008. Details on our website soon, in case you need to plan and book up fast.

Gerry

P.S. If you live in Pattaya our weekly ongoing beginner Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Pattaya class is every Monday & Wednesday evening 645pm - 8pm in Tonys Trade Center, 3rd Road Pattaya. see for directions Link to Tony Trade Center on http://www.tonydisco.com/

P.P.S. I can confirm our dates for the next 40 hour 5 day Krav Maga Pattaya Intensive Seminar, it is 15 Apr - 19 Apr 2008 (5 days training 8 hours per day). Visit TKM Headquarters to Book

Spreading Krav Maga Self Defense Martial Arts to Laos, Cambodia, Vietinam, Burma, Thailand

Krav Maga Self Defense in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam & Burma/Mayamar

I was very suprized in a very nice way to find out unknown to myself, that I had been spreading the gospel of Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense all over SE Asia, not only to Thailand, but also to Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam & Burma/Mayamar.

Earlier in this year, I was asked to teach a 1 day Ladies Krav Maga Self Defence Seminar in a top Yoga/Pilates studio in Bangkok called The Core which is a very upmarket modern yoga (pilates & many other health lifestyle classe) which is owned by a very nice lady and top yoga/pilates expert called Ory who comes originally from Israel. Of course Ory is very familar with Krav Maga, & I think she mentioned her cousin teaches Krav Maga in the Israeli Defense Forces.

We had a wonderful 1 day workshop, teaching the ladies how to be aware and avoid potential trouble or attackers in the first place, teaching them the psychology of self protection, then we got the ladies moving and into action with some Jennifer Lopez ala her movie "Enough" work the basic simple and most lethally effective basic Krav Maga techniques, hitting the pads & kick shields with all their power, with palm shots, eye strikes, knees & elbows. It was amazing to see some of the ladies who never hit anything before in their lives, murdering the body sized kick shield pads with knee strikes so hard, the word Castration came to mind, should they ever have to use their new self defense krav maga skills against an attacker!

On the course was a very nice lady, who is a world leading international freelance journalist called Emily Goldstein, who wrote a number of excellent articles on me introducing Krav Maga in Thailand, and how it Krav Maga can benefit everyday ordinary people, who now have a vital life skill in that they can protect themselves. We got a great write up in a leading Bangkok upmarket glossy magazine, & I will post that in the future some time.

I was amazed to find out I also feature in a French Magazine cover SE Asia, perhaps a call back to the old days of French Indo China when France rule Laos, Cambodia etc.

Parlez vous Francais?

This article is in French, but have a look at it on the link below, I was able to pick my way through it with my very rusty high school French from years back.

Read it here Gerry Nolan teaching Krav Maga Self Defense in SE Asia Magazine Article

LOL! A little trivia on Israel, when I was training in Krav Maga with Israeli Krav Maga Association, I used to ask some of the instructors & my trainers who in the class was in the army. They used to laugh aloud as if I asked a very dumb question, and boom back in lound voices... "Gerry, In Israel, EVERYONE is in the Army!". I did not believe them, until a few days later I was in the local shopping mall in Netanya, & I noticed a group of young girls no more than 20 years old, in the CD Music Shop buying the latest Britney Speres CD, they smiled & said hello to me, & then I noticed they all had assault rifles hanging over their shoulders, & mag clips of bullets in the back pockets of their jeans. Amazing sight I tell you! Same day I noticed a lady who must have been 6 months expectant with child, stroll by with a Uzi Sub Machine gun casually slung over her shoulder. Every 2nd person who passed me in the mall as I sipped coffee had a pistol down the back of their jeans. And perhaps the next weekend, while out in a small night club, a happily drunken young IDF army captain insisted on dragging me up to dance with his two lady friends, bought me drinks, as we all danced around M16s & Galil Rifles, & at one stage near the end of the night, threw his M16 into my hands to take care off, while he chatted up some other fair maiden across the bar. Never liked the M16 myself, was always more of an Armalite man myself!

So Israel certainly has a very strong gun culture for sure. This brings a question..

Some Martial Arts friends of mine in Ireland, who are into MMA, used to question me to the practical use of knowing how to disarm a pistol or rifle threat, & as many people know, gun disarming skills is one of the area of which Krav Maga is famous. My Martial Arts friends, most of whom have never been in a real life self defense situation, and think all begins and ends with Ultimate Fighting UFC (now I am a big believer in being able to defend in all ranges like in MMA), but UFC is still not a violent street attack. It is two world class combat athletes battling it out with a referee and rules.(no eye gouging allowed!). I explained to them, since KM was developed in Israel which has a very strong gun culture, then the skill of training to disarm a gun is indeed a very practical life skill to have. Alantic Ocean deep sea fishermen wear life jackets in case they fall into the sea, a very real danger, Israeli people, especially those working in security learn how to disarm gun threats. Remember also, if a gun man wants to shoot you dead, he can do it from meters away with his pistol, so what is all this holding a gun to your head, demand you hand over your monet about? Maybe he just wants to get your cash and rolex watch and the gun is just a tool of intimidation?

People ask me..

Do those gun disarms really work?

I always say, well if it is a life or death situation, an example could be 9/11 (ok I know they did not use guns, they used box cutter knives, but its a decent example), life or death someone has a gun to your head, is taking you to a secondary location, & does not want your wallet of cash. What are you going to do? Gormlessly go along with the gunman for a complimentary skull full of lead or try and save your life? Well I know what I would do for sure!

At Senior level Krav Maga gun disarms with proper safety & professional supervision are trained with repilic real pistol paintball & air guns, which is as real as you can get to the real thing., & many people discover they can actually clear the line of live fire fast enough to execute a Krav Maga gun disarm! Man those paint balls sure hurt, if you take a full shot on somewhere like the knuckles of you fist.

As you can see, in Tactical Krav Maga we take a very real & tested approach to self defense against weapons such as knife, baton/baseball bat & guns both pistols & rifle.

Want to find out more?

Serious once off opportunity, on Tuesday 23 October through to Saturday evening 27th October. We have a 5 day, 8 hours daily, 40 hour in total certified Tactical Krav Maga Self Defence Intensive Fast Track Seminar right here in Pattaya, and Head Tactical Krav Maga Instructor Carl Halley is teaching this. Over the 5 days, we are going to cover the whole 10 Units of the Tactical Krav Maga Fighting Combat System which is the exact same version of KM as taught to special force units in Israel such as the Yamam. How am I so sure, well Itay Gil Tactical Krav Maga founder, after fighting in a special army unit, spent 9 years in Yamam & 2 years after as their unarmed combat teacher. So thats good enough proof for me.

Back to next Tuesday 23 October - 27 October Intensive Krav Maga Thailand, Pattaya 5 day seminar, on this you will learn serious self defense skills against unarmed & armed attacks, & you will be finish the course with a level of skill you only could have dreamed about.

Now if you book & pay online on Carl Halleys Tactical Krav Maga Website tomorrow the 15th October you also get the Tactical Krav Maga DVD set worth $100 in value.

This is your chance to learn a serious must have life skill, How to Protect Yourself Against Violent Attack! Or How to Protect Your Family & Loved Ones from Violent Attack.

Ask yourself with brutal honesty, Can you defend yourself?

Sure, people can say... "I' d do this, I' d do that!!!" But will you really do it when the cow dung hits the fan??? Or hits the pavment with a messy splat! after a free fall down the leg of your pants, when some criminal junkie pulls a blade on you to liberate that nice wad of cash in your wallet.

Give yourself a chance, do not put yourself in a position, to have "sand kicked in your face" as well as your cash & credit cards stolen after a few bangs on the head from a well practised street Attacker.

Follow this link now to book this life changing seminar:

23 - 27 Oct 4o Hour 5 Day Tactical Krav Maga Intensive Fast Track Self Defense Certificate Course Pattaya Thailand

Krav Maga Regular New Adult Beginner Class Pattaya Has Started. Join Now!

Weekly Regular Monday & Wednesday 645pm Adults Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Martial Art Class Pattaya Thailand Gerry Nolan Instructor, where you will start as a beginner learning the Krav Maga basics, and over time progress through the 10 Units of Tactical Krav Maga. Over the months you will learn & imporve your Self Defence skills, as you learn the full Krav Maga Special Forces Fighting System. Please follow link below to our website for full details.

Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Pattaya Thailand Website New Class Information.

Please email gerry@kravmagathailand.com to confirm when you will attend, & to get full details & direction to our location. or see http://www.kravmagathailand.com

Krav Maga Photos from our July 2007 Self Defense Workshops in Pattaya & Bangkok, Thailand

Photos for you to look at, of our July 2007 Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense workshops we ran in Pattaya here and up in Bangkok, Thailand. Our Chief Instructor Carl Halley from Tactical Krav Maga down in Sydney in Australia, taught the workshops.

I really enjoyed the workshops myself, in a very different way than I usually would enjoy a martial arts related seminar. As Carl is one of the most professional instructors I have ever met in the martial arts world, and I started Mugendo Kickboxing (actually back then it was a mix between Wado Ryu Karate, with boxing hands, and early brand of kickboxing) back in Feb or March 1984, so I have been around martial arts a long time, and 6 years in Canada too where I trained in a few different martial arts systems/styles, I have met many well know people & martial arts/self defense experts along the way. Within 10 minutes of first meeting Carl, I knew he was if not the most, certainly in the top 1% of pure professionals I have met, with extremely high standards & ideas for how his organisation, instructors, own school, & students most keep, and work towards. Immediately I decided due to the high standards in place, and high expectations for instructors, that Tactical Krav Maga was a system/organisation I wanted to be associated with. This means that I myself (well I also worked to high standards in my own training and Martial Arts work), must keep all my standards very high. I discover many knew areas related to being a Krav Maga Instructor where high standards must be number 1, and some were new to me, in areas or about situations I never even considered before.

So I am happy to say I had to work very hard myself in a few new to me areas, to pull my standards up (aside from how hard & fast I can punch, or kick, or knee, or work a very live knife defense drill etc) , and I tell you it was well worth it for me, as personal improvement in any area is always a goal of mine, and more so, as we constantly must look at ourselves as individuals in KM Self Defense, and indeed in life as a whole, and see can we improve our "Character Defects", and become better people, who live life on a new level & to a new higher standard. And of course this gives the people who come to learn Tactical Krav Maga, a great benefit also, and thats where serious high standards must always be in place, the student is number 1, and must get the best training.

Anyway, back to what I mentioned at the start, as usually at a seminar is I am not teaching it myself, or on duty if needed as an Assistant Instructor for 100% of a seminar, then I am in the seminar as a student, (forever I will be a student in Martial Arts as there is always something to learn), and when I am a student I train 100%, and if a bomb exploded outside the gym window, I would be so into my own training, I would not even notice the explosion! :-)

In Bangkok & Pattaya, I spent alot of time sitting on the sidelines my choice observing how Carl taught a seminar and watching his teaching style. Since Carl is teaching professionally many years longer than me, and since he got very hard to get government contracts in Australia to teach various Police Departments, Military, & other government security, that alone is an indicator of the level of professional & expertise on offer, as no army, police dept, or government hands out combat/self defense training to just anyone. So I got to look and watch in an intensive way, for alot of the time as a spectator when I was not helping out or partnering with some of the krav maga students on our thailand self defence seminars. I have to say, I learned much more than I expected, and I found since I have many years of experience, I knew what to watch for and I was very suprised at the amount and level of new information & ideas I learned.

Ok, so here is a link to some photos from our bangkok & pattaya krav maga workshops, this summer gone past, and for fun, I also added various photos from my own martial arts & kickboxing past. You will even see me as a 21 year old young lad in New York City in the USA in the early 1990s, throwing a kick a former Number 1 World Heavy Weight Boxing Contender, "The Great White Hope" Gerry Cooney...(like he only fought the like of Larry Holmes, for $10 million a fight, so I decided to hit him a few kicks to smarten him up a bit! Us Irish people are not too shy about doing such things), so Gerry Cooney took his beating well, and shook hands with me with after I my round house kick slammed into him& became my buddy, (told me not to tell anyone I beat him! LOL!)

Here is the link, follow it now, and see the photo, you never know what you might see on here!

http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb34/GerryKM01/

On Monday 8th October, we just started our new beginners krav maga self defence class in Pattaya Thailand. It is on Mondays & Wednesday evenings at 645pm (18:45) at Tonys Trade Center in the Aerobics Studio on 3rd floor see http://www.tonysdisco.com for more information on location see the Tonys Disco site and go to Tonys Trade Center link. All through October into November we will accept new adult beginner students for Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense, and we will really work on giving you the basics skills over the next few weeks. (Actually, it is the basics that will 95% save you if your ever attacker & have to use your skills). If you want to attend, please email me and confirm which class you will join, and what day/date so I know to expect you. (I do not allow spectators at the class out of respect for new students who have already join up, however if you want to try it out, come and train for a few classes, and if you do not enjoy what we do, I will refund you the balance of your monthly training fee less class already done on the spot) follow this link for details & to contact me Krav Maga Thailand

This is worth thinking about also, in approximately 2 weeks time, Carl Halley is back up to teach an intensive 40 hours, 8 hour daily, 5 day Fasttrack Tactical Krav Maga Self Defence Seminar on 23rd October - 27 October 07 here in Pattaya. This course is going to rock n rolling & you will cover all the Tactical KM system, and you will be amazed and how your skills will develop. Also you get Free, if you pay in full by 15th October, worth $100, the full 5 DVD TKM Set, which at home you can review all you have learned, and to be honest, I think we made a mistake on the price of the course, but since we are generous people it is only 14,500 Thai Bhat which is massive value for money, as 2 day self defense courses in the USA cost up to $2000 or more. (I know of one instructor who charges $2000 per day, and that is before expenses!). Never again will such a good value price be on offer (14500 thai bhat is approx euro 320/USA $450/or British Pounds 220. and if you work off the value of the $100 USA worth of KM DVDs you will get against the value of the fee, for 40 hours training with a world class expert, you will see it is serious good value for money). Click on link below for more info
Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand 40 hour 23rd October Pattaya Workshop Martial Arts

Over the next few post, I will cover some ideas on Self Defence as per what we do in our Thailand Tactical Krav Maga Beginners self defense class in Pattaya.(Come join us if you are interested & based in Pattaya). This blog will also server as a place, where I will post a review of some of our classes and extra information on what we have covered, and where students can come and ask questions and what they learn, or discuss techniques, or training in an open and constructive manner.

Until Then...

God Bless

Gerry Nolan
Instructor Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Martial Arts Pattaya Bangkok Thailand

Krav Maga Thailand Self Defense Martial Arts Blog

Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand Blog

Hello:My name is Gerry and this is my new blog for Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand, as have just launched Self Defence Classes here in beautiful Pattaya, Thailand for Tactical Krav Maga.

In fact, I introduced Krav Maga for the first time to Thailand this summer in July 2007, when we have Tactical Krav Maga Chief Instructor & Self Defense Expert over to teach our very first 2 day intensive seminars in Bangkok & Pattaya.

I will post some photos at a later stage from these events. I am a Krav Maga Instructor, under Tactical Krav Maga, and before a few years back I did an intensive instructors course in Netanya, Israel, under the Israeli Krav Maga Association. I have many years in Mu Gen Do Kickboxing in Ireland, getting to 4th Dan Black Belt under Professor George Canning in Ireland. I was always interested in the Self Defense aspect of Martial Arts, and I discover Krav Maga about 5 years ago, and took to it fastm due to beign a kickboxer.

In this new Krav Maga Thailand Blog, I will cover what classes and course we have on in Thailand, what we are teaching and training in, and also other Self Defense Systems & Martial Arts too.It would be great of other Martial Artists in Thailand, began to visit this Blog, as from my own knowledge, Reality Based Self Defence or RBSD as we call it for short, is not very popular in Thailand yet. Indeed outside of Muay Thai, in Bangkok I was very suprised to find out for a city with an offical population of 6 million people ( and the unofficial population can be up to 12 million...or so I read!), there is not very many Martial Schools at all, the post popular being WTF Tae Kwon Do which is preferred by high school kids, and university students. And of course there is a Bangkok Fight Club which is the premier Mixed Martial Arts or MMA for short, gym in Bangkok.

So good news, Krav Maga has hit the Land of the Smile, Siam or more popularly known as Thailand! We started in Bangkok, then Pattaya with our introduction seminars in July.Now as we are in mid September, and since I live in Pattaya Thailand, which is a beach resort area, and about 2 hours from Bangkok. I am starting to teach regular Krav Maga classes in Street Self Defense here. We have intensive seminars planned. where you can cover our Tactical Krav Maga Systems, which has 10 Units of learning, and also do private lessons with me, and soon I will offer 1 on 1 Executive Private Fly In Krav Maga intensive private training for those coming to Pattaya on Vacation or longer stays.

Before anyone asks? Yes, I do train in Muay Thai Boxing, and came to Thailand in December 2005 & stayed in a tiny village in Burriram, about 80 km outside of Korat, called Nong Ki, there I had great opportunity, in that I trained with one of Muay This must famous trainers, Master Pramote Haimook, of Nong Kee Pahoyuth Muay Thai school as he is Number 2 in Muay Thai for producing famous champions and had 10 Muay Thai Champions, and I trained almost daily for most of 2006, then I moved to Pattaya, where I train in the famous Sityodtong Muay Thai camp. Sityodtong is Number 1 in Thailand for Muay Thai Champions have 25 in total over the years. I've had to cut down the Muay Thai this past few months, due to serious work commitments, and I am missing it badly, and am just back to Muay Thai recently.

So on the Krav Maga Pattaya.

This is the News:

Monday 8th October Krav Maga Self Defense Pattaya Class starts.

This is a new class for adult beginners or those with martial arts experience in Pattaya who want to come to regular clases on Monday & Wedesdays nights, and learn krav maga.
For details please visit our website Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand Class Details

23rd October Tues - 27th October Sat 2007 (40 hours Krav Maga in 5 days)
Intensive Fast Track Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Seminar Pattaya Thailand

We have Tactical Krav Maga Fast Tracking Course Pattaya Thailand thats 40 hours KM over 5 days with 8 hours intensive KM training per day, as Carl Halley Chief Instructor from Australia is flying up to teach, and will cover self defense against unarmed & armed attackers.For details on this please see our seminars & course webpage and follow the link...Tactical Krav Maga Fast Tracking Self Defense Course Pattaya Thailand

If you want to be updated with information on our Self Defense Krav Maga School Pattaya Thailand, lessons, classes, course's or weekend seminars we may run in Bangkok or other Thai cities, please book mark and come visit my blog.Also go to the home page of our web site Krav Maga Self Defense Thailand and sign up for our email newletter. We hate spam, so watch out for the opt in auto responder email you will get back, and I promise the emails we send are not too many, only when important news comes.

Ok.. Soon I better tell you what Krav Maga is for those who do not know!

Check back soon.

Warmest Regards
Gerry Nolan

Tactical Krav Maga Instructor
Pattaya Thailand http://www.kravmagathailand.com/