Krav Maga Classes
Krav Maga is a tactical mixed-martial art self-defense system that combines boxing, judo, jujitsu, and aikido. At Elite Training Centre, our specialized training will help you develop both mentally and physically, integrating cardio-intensive exercises with the most modern self-defense methods. The guiding principle of Krav Maga is to neutralize the threat quickly, in the simplest and most instinctive way possible. We regularly belt and have competitions to test your level. Unlike some traditional martial arts that focus on forms and rituals, Krav Maga prioritizes techniques that are practical and applicable in real-life situations.
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Our Krav Maga Self-Defense Classes
Elite Training Center’s Krav Maga system teaches moderation of techniques to fit less-lethal situations, protecting one’s self while minimizing harm to the attacker. Our guiding principles include:
- Stay unharmed
- Neutralize the attacker
- Escape quickly
- Be prepared for multiple attackers
- Stay off the ground
- The transition from defensive to the offensive with multiple strikes, kicks, knees, elbows, and other techniques
- Use intuitive, simple actions
- Exploit vulnerable points on the body to expedite escape
- Use any available objects as weapons
Our instructors emphasize two training rules. First, there are no rules in a fight, and second, safety for self and partner when training is paramount. The training uses pads or focus mitts so students may experience striking or receiving blows at full power. We focus on technique and application while sometimes using loud music or other distractions to teach students to concentrate under stress and distraction. To simulate real-world situations, students may be worked aerobically to near exhaustion and then required to defend themselves as they might on the streets. Elite Training Center also emphasizes teaching situational awareness and observation to understand your surroundings and potentially threatening circumstances before an attack is launched.
What are the Basics of Krav Maga?
Our Krav Maga instruction includes a wide range of techniques designed for self-defense in various situations, including standing, ground, and weapon attacks. Some common techniques taught in Krav Maga classes include:
Strikes: Krav Maga emphasizes simple and effective strikes to vulnerable areas of the body, such as punches, elbows, knees, and kicks.These strikes are aimed at incapacitating the attacker as quickly as possible.
- Hand-to-Hand combat: Covering all aspects and ranges of fighting, this component encompasses standing, striking, clinching, pressure points, and ground fighting. LOTAR addresses the 360-degree concept of self-defense, which takes into consideration your entire environment.
Defenses against grabs: Techniques for defending against grabs to the wrist, clothing, or throat are taught extensively in Krav Maga.
These defenses often involve simultaneous counterattacks to create distance and escape.Escapes from holds: Krav Maga teaches techniques to escape from various holds, including bear hugs, headlocks, and chokeholds.
These techniques focus on leveraging the body’s natural movements and vulnerabilities of the attacker.Defenses against strikes: This training teaches you how to defend yourself against blunt objects and knife attacks and use everyday implements as improvised weapons. Students learn how to defend against punches, kicks, and other strikes effectively. This may involve blocking, redirecting, or evading the attacker’s strikes while simultaneously launching counterattacks.
Ground defense: In the event of being taken to the ground, Krav Maga teaches techniques for defending oneself and getting back to a standing position quickly. This includes strikes, joint locks, and escapes from ground positions.
Stick, Knife, and Edged Weapon Defense: Krav Maga includes training in defending against various weapons such as knives, guns, and blunt objects. Techniques focus on disarming the attacker and neutralizing the threat as efficiently as possible.
Multiple attackers: Krav Maga addresses scenarios involving multiple attackers, teaching students how to prioritize threats, maintain situational awareness, and use surroundings to their advantage.
Aggression and mindset: Krav Maga emphasizes the importance of a strong mindset and controlled aggression in self-defense situations. Students are trained to react decisively and assertively to threats.
These techniques are typically practiced in controlled training scenarios and drills, allowing students to develop muscle memory and reflexes for effective self-defense. Krav Maga training also often includes scenario-based simulations to simulate real-world situations and test students’ skills under pressure.
Gun Defense Content
Learn quick, simple, and instinctive techniques when faced with a gun threat, including compliance. The goal is to minimize injury and maximize your chances of survival.
Krav Maga self-defense classes teaches you how to defend yourself using simple, effective techniques that stress immediate safety. Our system incorporates teachings from multiple disciplines, but everything is geared towards the needs of the average person.
The Origin of Krav Maga
Krav Maga is a reality-based self-defense system developed in Israel by Imi Lichtenfeld. Krav Maga has seen various forms and interpretations depending on situations such as location, participants, and other demographics. Originally, Krav Maga was developed by borrowing from techniques in Western-style boxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing, wrestling, Judo, and Jiu-Jitsu. Unlike most traditional Martial Arts, the interpretation of Krav Maga remains and should remain evolutionary. Martial systems, as instructed at Elite Training Center, are always in a constant state of change. Elite’s instructors devote their lives to the success of teaching and the interpretation of Krav Maga. To do anything less is a disservice to the essence of Krav Maga and its creators.
Reality-Based Self-Defense
The term self-defense is open to interpretation and can relate to many systems. As mentioned above, Krav Maga was developed using various martial systems to create what is referred to as “reality-based self-defense.” Reality-based self-defense does not practice traditional Katas. This does not take anything away from Kata and those who practice it. Many of Elite’s staff have studied, explored, and belted in more traditional styles. Krav Maga uses an approach relating to a higher level of situational awareness. There is no absolute in combat. The only absolute is the existence of the combative situation.
Situational Awareness
Those who see the YouTube videos of Krav Maga techniques are often impressed or at the very least interested in the aggression and speed at which they are executed. First and foremost, situational awareness must be understood. An attack is often the result of a lack of situational awareness. Far too often, we put ourselves in unavoidable positions.
Fitness and Conditioning in Krav Maga
Although the Krav Maga is a very technical system here at Elite Training Center, we feel that overall fitness and conditioning is a crucial aspects of protecting yourself and your family. We have only a limited amount of adrenaline available in our bodies. In a situation where you are required to defend yourself or possibly even fight for your life, there will be a time when your adrenaline dumps, and you’ll have to rely on your level of physical fitness to finish the job.
The more fit you are, the more prepared you are to defend yourself. Daily we hear from people without much experience about how they want to learn Krav Maga and their fitness levels are already “good enough.” What needs to be considered is that there is no such thing as too fit, too strong, or too fast when protecting yourself or your loved ones. Conditioning is extremely important when it comes to self-defense.
Striking and Combatives
While being physically fit and technical carries its value in self-defense, it is not the only path toward success in defending yourself. The tools we use, known at Elite Training center as ‘combatives’ and ‘combative flow’, play a major role in the ability to defend yourself. At Elite Training Center, students learn a combination of aggressive, street-fighting strikes combined with an understanding of Muay Thai Kickboxing integrated into our curriculum. Krav Maga at Elite Training Center focuses on how combatives affect the attacker’s body and how the body reacts after being hit. This allows us to learn how to use the “right tool for the right job” to escape the situation as quickly and effectively as possible. Attacking the senses, soft tissue, and joints are the key components of learning self-defense combatives. Awareness of this, combined with a good understanding of Muay Thai Kickboxing, defensive tactics against strikes, how to move quickly and smoothly, footwork, and head movement, is paramount to understanding Krav Maga combatives at Elite Training Center.
Aggression in Krav Maga
In line with a solid combative “toolbox”, a key component to success when defending yourself is the willingness to be aggressive. Having the will never to stop until you are successful is something inside us all. It is simply the will to survive. At Elite Training Center, the student needs to understand this principle. The psychology behind combat must be understood. We often address this principle to get into a combative mindset. Do you have what it takes to be successful for yourself and your family?
Street Fighting
Typical street fights, as typical as they can be, are often surprise attacks such as a sucker punch, haymaker punches, chokes, bear hugs, grabs, and more. You will learn how to quickly and effectively eliminate threats from varying situations. Elite’s Muay Thai Kickboxing is a key ingredient in understanding our Krav Maga system. The use of elbows and knees are effective tools that maximize damage to an assailant.
The ground fighting aspect of Krav Maga lends itself back to situational awareness. To combat more lethal threats such as handguns, impact weapons, and blades, we must understand the functionality of these weapons. Elite’s Krav Maga system incorporates elements from top-tier special operations units and Kali/Silat (Filipino Martial Arts) to combat these threats.
Weapons Disarms
The particular skill set to deal with a gun, rifle, shotgun, knife, edged weapon, or impact weapon, must be approached with caution, intelligence, and discipline. Elite Training Center’s Chief Instructor has over 20 years of professional field experience and continually researches and develops our system with his team of instructors from each discipline. Weapon disarms are not limited to what Krav Maga does but take the best of other civilian and military systems to bring cutting-edge martial technology to Elite’s students.
Weapons Training
Elite Training Center offers tactical weapons courses in self-defense for civilians and tactical applications for military or law enforcement personnel. These courses include but are not limited to the tactical pistol, tactical shotgun, and tactical long gun. Elite’s courses are taught by former and current special operations personnel. Elite believes that the tactics applied by military and law enforcement can be scaled down and transitioned into civilian usage as well.
Ground Fighting
Jiu-Jitsu, a Martial Art from which many systems borrow, plays a huge role in Elite Training Center’s Krav Maga. Jiu-Jitsu is a large system, not only used for ground fighting. Understanding fighting on the ground is the key to not getting caught there. The basic program is instilled in Elite’s students to get off the ground as quickly as possible.
As you progress through the Krav Maga system, the usage of ground fighting becomes very important. Like any system worth studying, it is important to understand what to use and when. Fighting multiple attackers is never a good idea. Doing it on the ground? Horrible. Do not mistake this mindset for a lack of Jiu-Jitsu being considered for a self-defense application. It is a large part of Elite’s Krav Maga system, more so than many practitioners of the more traditional Israeli system.
Elite Krav Maga
Krav Maga at Elite Training Center is a very large system constantly being refined. To reiterate, combat is evolutionary by nature. Regardless of your interest, Elite’s system covers many combative scenarios ranging from common forms of street aggression to home invasions to multiple attackers. There is something for everyone at Elite Training Center.
CT 707 System
Elite Training Center is proud to be the West Coast representative for Nir Maman’s CT 707 System. CT 707 is a training and consulting organization that specializes exclusively in the subject matters of Krav Maga, Tactical Weapons Manipulation and Shooting, Active Shooter Intervention, and Counter Terror Warfare for Operational Military and Police Units.
Unlike many other Tactical systems, CT 707’s tactical methodologies are based on combat-proven platforms deployed and refined in the world’s most targeted and volatile regions. These methods are guaranteed to drastically enhance the tactical engagement and combat performance capabilities of individual operators, police officers, and operational units.
These tactical methodologies will also help reduce an operator or police officer’s possibility of causing collateral damage during violent deadly force engagements in public areas.
CT 707 is spearheaded by Nir Maman, a former Section Commander, Lead Counter Terror and Krav Maga Instructor, and Operational Team Leader on the Israeli Special Forces Counter Terror Unit and Counter Terror and Special Operations School. Nir’s professional background spans over 15 years and encompasses service in military Special Forces, policing high-risk security, and dignitary protection.
During his service in the Israeli Special Forces Counter Terror Unit and Counter Terror School, Nir was responsible for developing and delivering training programs for Special Forces Units from various countries worldwide, including the United States. These units attend the Israeli Special Forces Counter Terror School for advanced Counter Terror Warfare, Tactical Shooting, and Krav Maga before deploying to high-risk environments such as Iraq or Afghanistan.
CT 707 is backed by an advisory board of respected experts in the fields of Military Special Operations, Police Tactical Operations, and Use of Force instruction, Legal counsel from various fields of law practice, medical experts from various fields of medicine, and psychology experts from various fields of mental and emotional sciences are consulted as they relate to combat.
Krav Maga Alliance
Elite Training Center is proud to be a part of the Krav Maga Alliance which establishes a network of like-minded institutions. Krav Maga Alliance is composed of Krav Maga academies, instructors, and students dedicated to improving themselves and each other through realistic training and the continuous exchange of ideas. There are affiliates all over the world, from Australia to Italy.
The Alliance provides training, certification, and ongoing support in all aspects of Krav Maga training. They provide affiliates with curricula, lesson plans, and monthly updates with new training drills and scenarios.
