Introduction toKrav Maga
Where every protector starts. Level 1 builds your foundation — fighting stance, core strikes, basic defenses, and the mindset to act when it matters. Training twice a week, most students complete this level in four to six months.
Situational Awareness
Develop the habit of staying alert to your surroundings — recognizing exits, reading body language, and identifying potential threats before they develop.
Fight Back
Overcome the natural freeze response. When avoidance fails, you take immediate, decisive action to protect yourself and the people around you.
Get Off the X
Move off the line of attack to disrupt the opponent’s targeting. Don’t stay where they expect you to be.
Create Space
Gain distance to assess the situation, create options, or prepare for further engagement on your terms.
Mindset determines willingness and clarity. Tactics determine smart choices. Skills determine capability. This is the order — and Level 1 builds all three.
Fundamentals
- Fighting Stance
- Moving in Fighting Stance
- Sprawling
- Changing Levels
Combatives
- Straight Punches — Single, Left/Right Combo
- Striking & Moving — Movement with check hand, striking with appropriate weapon
- Create & Maintain Space — Framing (wrist, elbow, shoulder, neck) with movement
- Palm Heel Strikes — All angles: combo, power slap, horizontal, upward, overhand
- Hammer Fist — All directions
- Elbow Strikes — Horizontal 1–3, Vertical 4–7
- Front Kick (Groin)
- Round Kick
- Front Kick to Vertical Target
- Knee Strikes — Center control (Muay Thai clinch, Gable grip, shirt grab) and side control
Defenses Against Strikes
- Inside Cover — Straight punches & elbows
- Outside Cover — Haymakers
- Cover & Attack
Self-Defense Techniques
- Choke from the Front — Rotational option, 1-hand pluck
- Choke from Behind
- Headlock from Behind
- Takedown Defense
Controlling Techniques
- Arm Drag
- Duck Under
- Applying Headlock from Behind
Ground Fighting
- Movement on the Ground — Back and side
- Front Kick from the Ground — Single and both legs
- Getting Up from the Ground
Shark Tank
All combatives and all defenses — rotating partners, continuous pressure.
Blitz Drill
Urgent, aggressive striking under time pressure. Train the switch from freeze to action.
Moving Targets
Upper body strikes against targets changing levels and pressuring forward and back.
Cover, Crash & Counter
Back against wall. Absorb, close distance, and counterattack under pressure.
When you’ve completed the Level 1 curriculum, you’ll attend a Yellow Belt workshop and test into Level 2 — Orange Belt. Level 2 builds on everything here with expanded combatives, choke defenses, and introduction to ground survival.