Krav Maga (Hebrew: קרב מגע, "contact combat") is a system of close combat eclectic body, developed in Israel that involves fighting techniques, twists, defense against weapons, bats, snapping and slashing.
Krav Maga is derived from street-fighting skills developed by Imi Lichtenfeld as a means of defending the Jewish quarter during the period of anti-Semitic activism in Bratislava in 1940. Upon his immigration to Israel, he began to provide training in melee for what would become the Israel Defense Forces, developing the techniques that became known as krav maga and being the founder of IKMA - Israeli Krav Maga Association. Since then it has been optimized for both applications, civilian and military.
Its philosophy emphasizes threat neutralization, simultaneous maneuvers of defense and attack, and krav maga agressão.O is used by the Israel Defense Special Forces and many closely related variations have been developed and adopted by organizations of law enforcement and intelligence gathering as Mossad, Shin Bet, FBI, SWAT units of the police department in New York and Special Operations Forces of the United States. There are several organizations teaching krav maga internationally, but Imi was only responsible for creating the IKMA, which is currently led by its most senior student, the Grand Master Haim krav maga Gidon.O is not considered a combat sport, as there has rules. All blows are allowed and trained in order to overcome any kind of situation of violence as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Krav Maga is a result of the experience of Imi Lichtenfeld in several martial arts stemmed mainly from Japão.Primeiro he taught his fighting system in Bratislava in order to help protect the local Jewish community from Nazi militia. Upon arriving in the British Mandate of Palestine, Imi began teaching Krav Maga for the Haganah, the Jewish army.
With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1947, Imi Lichtenfeld became the Chief Instructor of Physical Fitness and Self Defense in the School of Combat Fitness for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He served in the IDF for 20 years, during this time continued to develop and refine their method of fighting hand-to-hand.
In 1970 he left the military, but continued to supervise the instruction of Krav Maga in both contexts, military and law enforcement, moreover, worked tirelessly to refine, improve and adapt Krav Maga to meet civilian needs.
The first ten students from Imi Lichtenfeld receiving a black belt 1st Dan were Eli Avikzar, Haim Gidon, Rafi Elgarisi, Haim Zut, Shmuel Kurzviel Shlomo Avisira, Vicktor Bracha, Yaron Lichtenstein, Avner Hazan and Miki Asulin.
In 1978, Imi Lichtenfeld founded the Krav Maga Association Isralense (IKMA) along with their experienced instructors.'s Goal was the creation of a nonprofit agency to serve as the support structure for all practitioners who promoted and purity Krav Maga, allowing its development as a method of national defense and fighting within a non-partisan, non-political, independent of other sports organizations, is created by the hands of Imi and their best students to Israeli Krav Maga Association , founder Imi Lichtenfeld as having.
There are no rules for practicing krav maga. Men and women receive equal krav maga treinamento.O not have an official sports federation, there is no official uniforms or loud, although some organizations recognize progress by training with foreign category, different levels, and tracks (obi).
Generally, there are no rules in Krav Maga as a self defense system that is not regulated, but utilized to keep the user safe and neutralize any threat using all available means.
General principles include:
Strike back as soon as possible (or attacking preemptively)
Focus attacks on the most vulnerable areas of the body like the eyes, jaw, throat, knees, genitals, etc..
Neutralizing the opponent as quickly as possible by responding with a continuous stream of counter attacks and if necessary, kill / maim.
Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat to realize escape routes, more threats, useful objects for defense and attack and so on.
Basic training mixed aerobic and anaerobic exercises. Protective pads and other personal protective equipment may be used during initial training. Scenarios are used to train people for typical situations encountered by patrolling the streets or in combat situations. These scenarios teach students to ignore distrações.Outros training methods to increase realism include the use of sales or exercising students to near exhaustion before dealing with simulated attacks, in addition to training outdoors, at various sites, in situations disabling or restrictive.
The training also covers situational awareness to the students to develop an understanding of their surroundings, and circumstances before an attack occurs. It can also address ways to deal with potentially violent situations, and physical and verbal methods to avoid violence whenever possible.
Krav Maga is derived from street-fighting skills developed by Imi Lichtenfeld as a means of defending the Jewish quarter during the period of anti-Semitic activism in Bratislava in 1940. Upon his immigration to Israel, he began to provide training in melee for what would become the Israel Defense Forces, developing the techniques that became known as krav maga and being the founder of IKMA - Israeli Krav Maga Association. Since then it has been optimized for both applications, civilian and military.
Its philosophy emphasizes threat neutralization, simultaneous maneuvers of defense and attack, and krav maga agressão.O is used by the Israel Defense Special Forces and many closely related variations have been developed and adopted by organizations of law enforcement and intelligence gathering as Mossad, Shin Bet, FBI, SWAT units of the police department in New York and Special Operations Forces of the United States. There are several organizations teaching krav maga internationally, but Imi was only responsible for creating the IKMA, which is currently led by its most senior student, the Grand Master Haim krav maga Gidon.O is not considered a combat sport, as there has rules. All blows are allowed and trained in order to overcome any kind of situation of violence as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Krav Maga is a result of the experience of Imi Lichtenfeld in several martial arts stemmed mainly from Japão.Primeiro he taught his fighting system in Bratislava in order to help protect the local Jewish community from Nazi militia. Upon arriving in the British Mandate of Palestine, Imi began teaching Krav Maga for the Haganah, the Jewish army.
With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1947, Imi Lichtenfeld became the Chief Instructor of Physical Fitness and Self Defense in the School of Combat Fitness for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). He served in the IDF for 20 years, during this time continued to develop and refine their method of fighting hand-to-hand.
In 1970 he left the military, but continued to supervise the instruction of Krav Maga in both contexts, military and law enforcement, moreover, worked tirelessly to refine, improve and adapt Krav Maga to meet civilian needs.
The first ten students from Imi Lichtenfeld receiving a black belt 1st Dan were Eli Avikzar, Haim Gidon, Rafi Elgarisi, Haim Zut, Shmuel Kurzviel Shlomo Avisira, Vicktor Bracha, Yaron Lichtenstein, Avner Hazan and Miki Asulin.
In 1978, Imi Lichtenfeld founded the Krav Maga Association Isralense (IKMA) along with their experienced instructors.'s Goal was the creation of a nonprofit agency to serve as the support structure for all practitioners who promoted and purity Krav Maga, allowing its development as a method of national defense and fighting within a non-partisan, non-political, independent of other sports organizations, is created by the hands of Imi and their best students to Israeli Krav Maga Association , founder Imi Lichtenfeld as having.
There are no rules for practicing krav maga. Men and women receive equal krav maga treinamento.O not have an official sports federation, there is no official uniforms or loud, although some organizations recognize progress by training with foreign category, different levels, and tracks (obi).
Generally, there are no rules in Krav Maga as a self defense system that is not regulated, but utilized to keep the user safe and neutralize any threat using all available means.
General principles include:
Strike back as soon as possible (or attacking preemptively)
Focus attacks on the most vulnerable areas of the body like the eyes, jaw, throat, knees, genitals, etc..
Neutralizing the opponent as quickly as possible by responding with a continuous stream of counter attacks and if necessary, kill / maim.
Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat to realize escape routes, more threats, useful objects for defense and attack and so on.
Basic training mixed aerobic and anaerobic exercises. Protective pads and other personal protective equipment may be used during initial training. Scenarios are used to train people for typical situations encountered by patrolling the streets or in combat situations. These scenarios teach students to ignore distrações.Outros training methods to increase realism include the use of sales or exercising students to near exhaustion before dealing with simulated attacks, in addition to training outdoors, at various sites, in situations disabling or restrictive.
The training also covers situational awareness to the students to develop an understanding of their surroundings, and circumstances before an attack occurs. It can also address ways to deal with potentially violent situations, and physical and verbal methods to avoid violence whenever possible.
