Krav Maga Scotland

Krav Maga is a fast, highly effective, reality based self defence system. Krav Maga ('Contact Combat')

Krav Maga is extremely easy to learn as its actions are based on the body's natural defence instincts. Therefore a practitioner can expect to become proficient very quickly.

The main principle of Krav Maga is simple -

SELF DEFENCE.

Krav Maga can be seen as an essential Life Skill which is easy to learn, with practitioners becoming very proficient in a short space of time.

Krav Maga is not a Martial Art, and has none of the flowing movements that can take years to perfect and master.

What should I wear to a Krav Maga class?

All you need is a T shirt, tracksuit bottoms/training trousers, and training shoes.

Regular students and Instructors wear official IKMF uniforms consisting of a black T shirt with white logos (Instructors are red), and black kickboxing type trousers with white logos (again, Instructors are red).

An essential part of Krav Maga is its teaching process, methodology and style of training.

All instructors in the Institute of Krav Maga Scotland have undergone extensive instructor training with the IKMF and attend regular updates.

They also have extensive teaching experience in other areas of self defence and self protection.

The Institute of Krav Maga Scotland is the largest International Krav Maga Federation (IKMF) affiliated organisation in Scotland, and one of only 2 organisations in Scotland who are part of the IKMF.

Krav Maga means 'contact combat' in Hebrew and is a general term recognised as the most effective and reality tested self defense system in the world. 

The beauty of Krav Maga is that it excludes nobody.

The system is designed to be able to be learned quickly by anyone.

It was originally designed so that any member of the Israeli armed forces, whether they were a chef or a special forces soldier, could be brought up to a similar level in a short period of time.

The need for the IKMF originally arose in the early 1990's, when the teaching of Krav Maga (KM) was starting to spread beyond the borders of Israel. At that time the initial KM Association was divided and not functioning efficiently due to dissension amongst the higher graded instructors.

 As a result, Imi (the founder of Krav Maga) asked Eyal Yanilov, his closest assistant, and the chief instructor of the Krav-Maga, to assist him in forming a new international KM federation.

Eyal Yanilov (1959- ) is the Chief Instructor of the International Krav Maga Federation.

Mr. Yanilov began training in Krav Maga in 1973 and holds the Master level 3/Expert level 8 grade, granted by Imi Sde-Or, the founder of Krav Maga. He also holds the unique "Founder's Diploma of Excellence", which was given to only one other practitioner (Darren Levine).