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