Comfort Touching (as bizarre as it may sound!) is the term I use to describe a particular style of ineffective counter-attacking in Krav Maga whereby some trainees (and some instructors) carry out a defensive action and then continue by delivering a flurry of arms and legs in the general direction of their attacker’s body. Continue reading →

My aim in this blog is to highlight the Krav Maga principles for conflict situations that end up on the ground. It will discuss such a situation from the perspective of both an instructor and a trainee in the hope that this will inspire you to train in a manner that, should you ever be required to use your skills, they are as effective as possible. Continue reading →

After the fantastic feedback from the first blog, I am keen to keep the momentum. Please let me reiterate that any of these blogs are purely my opinion alone.

One word that I would be very keen to remove from the vocabulary of any Krav Maga Instructor is the word ‘mistake’. The first online dictionary I ‘Googled’ defined the word mistake as “an error or blunder during action”. Continue reading →

Writing the KM blog is something I have been threatening to do for a while now and when recently in Israel (in between counter-attacks and sweating like a camel!) I found the opportunity to put my first ideas down on paper. Continue reading →