Training Systems

Our self-protection system is Krav Maga, the fastest growing, most practical and dynamic self-protection program in the world.

Krav Maga has been the preferred hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli Defence Forces since the 1950s. It is also now the choice of the US military and law enforcement and is fast becoming a core component of the UK’s police, military and security agencies’ training systems.

Krav Maga’s evolution over the past 10 years has also seen its transition to civilian use and its rise to success as the world’s most functional, practical and easy-to-learn survival system for men, women and children. Tested on the battlefield and on the streets, Krav Maga’s practical no-nonsense approach to self-protection and personal safety will make you and your loved once safer and more secure as well as providing significant fitness-based and self-confidence benefits. You may have seen Krav Maga in action in recent films being put to effect by Jennifer Lopez, and also by Matt Damon in the Bourne Identity.

The form of Krav Maga we teach at Beyond Fighting is Urban Krav Maga. This is a system compiled by Krav Maga Instructors from the world’s 3 largest Krav Maga Associations who have also trained extensively in other styles such as Karate, Boxing, Thai Boxing, MMA and Jiu Jitsu. The UKM program is highly effective and dynamic and has been devised with the aim of dealing with the most common forms of violent attack and assault in the UK according to statistics released by the Home Office in 2007.

By emphasizing the importance of concepts rather than numerous techniques requiring careful execution in a split second of panic, our aim is to equip each student as quickly and efficiently as possible to defend themselves against the most common forms of attacks. Once the student has mastered these techniques, more difficult scenarios are addressed to build a support system that will enable the student to deal with almost any situation.

Our tactics, concepts and techniques are continually reviewed and updated by the Urban Krav Maga Instructor team, headed up by Stewart McGill at his Central London School of Krav Maga who is assisted by a team of instructors with experience across a variety of Israeli and traditional martial arts; no other group in the UK has comparable experience in the functional Israeli systems.

To summarise, Urban Krav Maga is:

•Extremely relevant to crime here in the UK

•Effective and Direct regardless of size, strength, gender etc.

•Simple and Easy to Learn

•All encompassing focusing on fitness, aggression, ground survival and defence, weapons defence, multiple attacker defence, rape defence, defence from punches, kicks, chokes, grabs, headlocks and anything else you can think of….

The system also explores the mental and emotional aspects of conflict and conflict avoidance.

For those members keen to work towards short, medium and long-term goals in their training, Beyond Fighting offers a grading system in both Kickboxing and Krav Maga; Please see the syllabus in the Downloads section for further details.