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Thinking about stepping into Krav Maga? At KMDI, we've got some good reasons why it's worth giving it a shot.

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If you've been training in Krav Maga and the time has come for your grading, it's only natural to feel a combination of excitement and nerves. The grading session is your opportunity to demonstrate the skills and techniques you've learned, and to potentially advance to the next level. But how do you prepare for such an event?

Meet Bar Nahoom, Our New Team Member Straight from Israel. Bar will be teaching classes at KMDI Surry Hills, bringing his wealth of knowledge and experience to our local community.

In a testament to the dedication and adventurous spirit within our KMDI community, three of our very own members have taken a significant step in their Krav Maga journey.

In a display of grit, determination, and skill, 26 dedicated KMDI members recently undertook their Krav Maga level tests, or "grading".

Human Behavior Pattern Recognition (HBPR) is a concept that is simple to understand yet complex in its application. It's a method used to predict and understand human behavior based on observable patterns, providing a significant advantage in threat assessment, personal safety, and everyday decision-making.

As part of a ‘Combative Sport Series’, model and actress Jazlyn Gabriel trained Krav Maga with KMDI instructor Jarrod Krafczyk for 1 hour. Check out her video and see her instant results. No prior training, just focus and the willingness to learn.

“I hope you freaked out looking at the title and thumbnail. I hope you finish watching this video and conclude that studying Krav Maga or any self-defence is necessary in your life - for the safety aspect of it and for the fitness and fun aspect of it too. It was an epic 30 days learning the Krav Maga Self-Defence technique. The strange benefits I got from this challenge kind of blew me away. Not just physically, but mentally.”

'They want to be badasses too': Women's enrollment in self-defence classes surge.
Sorelle Amore had never paid much attention to the voice in her head that said something might happen to her during her 12 years of travelling alone.

Self-defence has become more of a necessity than an option in today’s society. With the rapid growth of technology, not only are teenagers not getting enough active training, they are exposed to a wider array of potential dangers and negative influence. Getting into Krav Maga can help teenagers develop the right principles and values, whilst learning how to defend themselves and stand up for others.

“Krav Maga is instinctive and anyone can pick it up. To anyone new I would say - give it a try. I guarantee it will by like nothing you have ever experienced before.”

Thousands of people all over the world take up Krav Maga to learn to defend themselves, to learn how to protect other people, to get fitter, to join a community of like-minded people, and to learn to be a total bad-ass. But what they don’t realise at the time of starting out is that in addition to the physical changes that are about to take place, there’s a whole realm of characteristic changes and growth that will come along during their journey.

Krav Maga is a self defence system. Designed to give good people the skills to protect themselves, and others.  So where does this fit into combat sports?  It doesn’t.

Rarely do we talk about the soft-skills of Krav Maga: the de-escalation strategies, the avoidance, the situational awareness. None of this stuff releases endorphins like a good multiple attacker drill with knives and sticks.

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@studiocanalaus would like to offer you 10 double passes to the Sydney preview screening of BASTILLE DAY starring Idris Elba, in cinemas May 12.

Another year, another resolution. Over 85% of which will fail. But those that succeed usually have one thing in common, the buddy system.

When I refer to “eating for heat”, I am not talking about the scorching temperatures we are currently experiencing across Sydney, but the inner heat generated by a good, thumping, healthy metabolism.

If you walk into any standard globo-gym you will find yourself surrounded by a myriad of machines. Machines to work your quads, another to work your biceps, another to work the lower section of the left hand side of your right forearm.

“How the hell did it come to this? I’ve gone from scoffing at Splinter Cell Blacklist’s hand-to-hand takedowns, to being in a real-life stand-off against Australia’s foremost authority on Krav Maga, the martial art favoured by elite military units everywhere…”

“A national focus on drug and alcohol fuelled violence in Australia, as well as increased threats from Terrorist organisations oversees has seen an increasing number of people take part in self-defence classes, including a hard-hitting program used by the Israeli army called Krav Maga.”