FAQs About The Krav Maga Yashir System

Our standard monthly membership is $185/month. We have a discounted rate of $155/month for veterans, active military, first responders and fulltime students. There are no additional costs for gradings, internal seminars and specialist training that Krav Maga Yashir puts on. This also includes access to our online training platform, and Krav Mags short course.

We have no long-term contracts we simply require 30 days cancellation notice by email.

In the last ten years or so many traditional martial arts schools have started to offer “Krav Maga” programs, in order to present something that is relevant to their existing and prospective members. There are also instructors who use the term “Krav Maga” to refer to any combatives methods they teach or anything they class as being reality-based self-defense e.g., they use the term Krav Maga synonymously with self-defense etc. Sometimes this is cynical, sometimes its simply because they don’t understand what Krav Maga is and isn’t.

Firstly, Krav Maga is a system based not on physical techniques but on certain concepts and principles. If what is being taught doesn’t adhere to these in some form, then by definition what is being taught can’t be referred to as “Krav Maga”, however effective a technique/solution may be. If you are interested in learning more about these concepts and ideas, Krav Maga Yashir Head Instructor, Gershon Ben Keren, has put together a set of short videos explaining some of these. These can be accessed by clicking here.

Another thing to note about Krav Maga as it is taught and practiced in Israel, is that the standard length of a civilian instructor course is 29 days. This is because Krav Maga uses certain training methods and drills to make it effective, and as well as learning the basic syllabus of techniques to teach, an instructor must also know how and when to use these drills and teaching methods, as these help contribute to making Krav Maga such an effective fighting system. If an instructor from another martial art is trying to teach Krav Maga without understanding this about the approach and using their system’s approach to teaching self-defense then while it may look like what is being taught is Krav Maga, it’s not being taught as Krav Maga should.

The fastest way to start training is by attending one of our Krav Maga beginner classes, these are held several times throughout the month and will take you through some of the training methods we employ, and prepare you for our regular Krav Maga classes. Use the button below to find out when the next classes are, and to sign up.

Krav Maga teaches two approaches to fighting on the ground. It has a ground-survival syllabus, which teaches somebody how to survive a potential fight on the ground in order to get back up to standing, and it also has a ground-fighting component that teaches you in a similar way to BJJ, how to end the fight when it goes to the ground. However, when we look at reality-based fights, those that end up on the ground often involve one or more assailants staying standing, whilst they kick and stomp the person who has ended up on the ground. Whilst a lot of fights see one person end up on the ground, fewer see both assailants end up there.

Krav Maga also teaches techniques and solutions to armed attacks when on the ground, such as how to deal with assailants who pull a knife when finding themselves on the ground and against standing attackers who may try to assault you with baseball bats etc., when they are standing and you’re on the ground.

Yes. Whilst real-life confrontations look noting like sparring or combat sports, sparring is a useful tool for developing the fighting skills that are needed for real life physical confrontations. However, rather than just throw people in to sparring, we first help people develop the necessary skills for it to be a productive and rewarding experience.

Yes there are belts, however individuals are graded individually as they progress through the system/syllabus, so students work at their own pace. Civilian Krav Maga was originally taught alongside Judo, and so adopted the Judo belt system as a way of organizing its syllabus; even though associations that use patches and levels, still adhere to the traditional belt ranking system.