What is Krav Maga?
Krav Maga (the Hebrew words for “combat contact”) is the official self-defense system of the Israeli Defense Forces.
Simple and easy to learn
Krava Maga is based on instinctive movements. Its techniques rely on leverage, the physics of body mechanics, and common sense. You’ll learn how to effectively defend yourself, even if your assailants are faster and more powerful than you.
Battlefield-proven self defense
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) including their Special Forces Units, Israeli Police and Internal Security Branches have been using Krav Maga for over sixty years in one of the world’s most volatile hotbeds for conflict. In the United States and other countries it is being used by elite special forces. KM techniques have proven themselves time and time again in the real world.
The choice of law enforcement agencies
Hundreds of law enforcement agencies (including the FBI, NYPD, and the Texas Department of Public Safety) provide Krav Maga training to their officers.
Training as if it were a matter of life or death
Krav Maga training is realistic. Students learn to be effective under conditions of stress, fatigue, and being physically impaired.
Conditioning that puts you in fighting condition
Conditioning is an important part of the KM curriculum. You’ll master techniques that help you defeat attackers that are stronger and faster, but it’s inevitable that you will get stronger and faster when you train in Krav Maga.
Why is Krav Maga different from traditional martial arts?
Krav Maga is a modern hand-to-hand combat system. It’s strictly about learning how to defeat an attacker. KM teaches how to fight in the street, where there are no rules. KM training has no rituals, pageantry, meditation, or mysticism.
You won’t be taught choreographed forms (or “katas”). There are no showy flying-through-the-air kicks or ancient temple weapons. You won’t have to purchase a traditional uniform or practice in bare feet (unless you actually are a temple monk who stubbornly insists on training barefooted.)
The basic idea: do what works best
Krav Maga’s approach is to teach you how to survive a real-world threat; avoiding fighting when you can, render your attacker helpless when you must. You will be trained to counter-attack swiftly and effectively to the most vulnerable targets on your attacker’s body.
Krav Maga prepares you for the reality of today’s world; if the need arises, you’ll be equipped to “do unto others” before they do you in.
Krav Maga and STW
STW has been the only official licensee of Krav Maga Worldwide in San Antonio since 1992, and is owned by one of the few individuals to have attained the rank of second-degree black belt. Our instructors undergo intensive training at Krav Maga Worldwide headquarters in Los Angeles, and since we are an official Krav Maga Worldwide regional training center, KM school owners and instructors come from all over the country to receive training and certification from us.
We also conduct special training for people whose occupations put them at risk. We train military personnel, law enforcement officers, educators and academic security staff . . . at our facility and also off-site.