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Krav Maga Thailand Article Bangkok Trader Magazine June 2007 Thailand Krav Maga

“Never be afraid of getting violently attacked, robbed or mugged by attackers on the streets ever again. Defend Yourself with the skills of a Special Forces Commando Tactical Krav Maga”

By Gerry Nolan
Krav Maga Thailand Tactical Krav Maga Self Defense Instructor Thailand
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Tactical Krav Maga, which is a unique Self Defense fighting system, originally developed for Special Force Units in the Israeli Defense Forces, has come to Thailand, for the very first time every.

Now everyday civilians, office workers, big company executives, and housewives, can learn the exact same self defense system as used by Commando Military units to defend themselves against attacks and violence, while building their confidence and fitness at the same time.

Krav Maga (is a Hebrew word which basically means "contact combat") is a self-defense and military hand-to-hand combat system developed in Israel. It came to prominence following its adoption by various Israeli Security Forces and is now used by military and law enforcement personnel, as well as civilians, around the world. The Krav Maga taught in civilian self defence classes is more often a simplified version that emphasizes personal self-defense, against common unarmed street attacks, teaching the student basic strikes to venerable parts of the body (punches, kicks, knees, elbows, eye attacks), escapes from chokes, holds and bear hugs, and at more advanced levels., defenses against knife attack, baseball bat attacks, and hand gun threats.

There is also Police/Law Enforce modules which teach police or security officers how to restrain and arrest a resisting suspect without breaking the law by assaulting them, and a Military module which teaches assault rifle defenses, unarmed sentry killing techniques, and hostage rescue and VIP protection.

Krav Maga Thailand Instructor Gerry Nolan who is the only certified Krav Maga Self Defense Instructor in Thailand, has decided to introduce Krav Maga to the public in Thailand, as he believes the ability to defend oneself, is a life skill everyone should have, like learning how to swim to prevent drowning, or CRP in order to help some undergoing Cardiac Arrest.

Gerry is originally from Ireland, and relocated to Thailand, to train in Muay Thai over 2 years ago back in late 2005. He is a 4th Degree Black Belt in Mugendo Kickboxing, and represented his country Ireland in International Kick boxing events in the 1990s, and was Irish champion.
He started Krav Maga over 4 years ago, and then became the only Irish person to qualify to go to Israel to complete an intensive 8 – 10 hour a day, 6 days a week, 30 day Instructor Training Course. Gerry was also interested in the real life self defense system, which many traditional martial arts lack, and found Krav Maga to be an excellent solution.

“I had a Krav Maga School in Dublin, and we taught everyone from soldiers, police working the most violent areas of Dublin, to Businessmen and Top CEO’s. Some of the most rewarding work has been working with women who had abusive husbands, or suffered sexual assault, and by gradually bringing them through Krav Maga training; they regained their confidence in themselves, and were able to face life again. In fact, one lady Gerry taught, a young punk tried to attacker her one night, and this small, slight framed lady, hit the young thug with a Palm Strike to the face, and finished him with a knee to the groin so hard she lifted him over 12 inches off the ground, she hit him so hard, the young thug was so shocked and in so much pain, he burst into tears and started crying!”

If you remember that Jennifer Lopez movie called “Enough”, well that’s Krav Maga Lopez is learning in the movie. So now we can teach the same skills to ladies in Thailand.

Gerry says, “You only have to pick up the newspaper each week, especially English Language papers from Pattaya, and week in week out, there is reports of at least 5 or 6 incidents where innocent people have been assaulted, robbed, mugged or beaten up”

“The first thing we teach is how to stop and avoid trouble, and talk your way out of a potential violent situation or even simpler, to run for your life, we educate our students on the psychology of street attack, then if that fails, we teach our students how to destroy the attacker, with some simple techniques, in order to stun them, and then escape and leave the danger zone fast”

Krav Maga is made up of very simple techniques such as strikes to vital areas of the attacker’s body, such as eye, throat, and groin, low knees, elbows, gouges. We believe, if we cannot walk or talk our way out of a situation, then the victim should become the attacker, and attack first, attack fast, attack furiously, and keep attacked until the criminal is stunned enough, in order for us to escape to safety. We “chain” a volley of full power, lightening fast strikes together, with forward aggressive movement, and we do not give the attacker a second to get a strike in. Basically he is on the floor in a daze before he knows what happened!


Self Defense is 80% Mental Attitude, and 20% Technique. It is amazing how after spending a few weeks working with the most timid and soft student in out Krav Maga classes, how we can train them to turn on an Almighty Aggression, if they need to defend themselves, an aggression so powerful, it carries through their strikes, and totally over comes an attacker, destroying them, often leaving the criminal thugs a disorientated sobbing mess. Average people, if they are willing can learn to do this within a few weeks of committed training.

Gerry knows what works on the street and what does not work, as he spent a number of years working night club door security in Ireland just to get the real world experience of violence, and sometimes, he had to use his skills to restrain violent, drunk or drugged up thugs, whose goal for the night was to get into fights.

Another time when traveling abroad, Gerry was jumped by 6 thugs all in their early 20s, whom were drunk and high on drugs, and attacked him out of the blue.

“I was sitting in a bar minding my own business, when this young guy, came up to me and said something, before I could answer, he punched me twice in the eye, at which time I jumped up to defend myself, as I jumped up, he smashed a beer bottle, and tried to impale the jagged edge of the broken bottle in my eyes. I used a Krav Maga weapons disarm technique, got the bottle off the attacker, and put him out of action. The only problem was there was 5 thugs left that continued to attack me , who literally wanted to beat me to a pulp. I managed to fend them off for over 2 minutes, which is a long, long time in a street encounter, (usually street conflict only last’s seconds), in the end they managed to steal my wallet, but I did damage a few of them in the process, the only injury I got was a black eye, and I am definitely sure some of those young violent criminal thugs, will think twice about who they jump and try to attack in future!:

Since coming to Thailand, earlier in the year fate brought Gerry to meet Carl Halley from Australia Tactical Krav Maga, & later Itay Gil Krav Maga Expert feature on Human Weapon Krav Maga Martial Art documentary on History channel. Itay with many years Security work and Military experience is on of the top experts in the world in Krav Maga Self Defense Martial Arts & military krav maga with hardened battle experience trains Israeli Defence Force Special Forces in Krav Maga & is founder of Tactical Krav Maga & last year Human Weapons Itay Gil Instructed Krav Maga Seminars here in Pattaya Krav Maga Thailand. Tactical Krav Maga converted Gerry’s fighting skills over to the Tactical Krav Maga method. Gerry then earned his Tactical Krav Maga Instructor Certifications and is now Thailand Tactical Krav Maga Instructor.

According to Gerry “Out of all the versions of Krav Maga, that I have trained in, Tactical Krav Maga is the most effective to learn for actual street self defense The training methods are very real, and the system is very simple, with effective and basic technique. However do not underestimate it because it is simple and basic…its is a very lethal system, and very dangerous for any attacker to try violence on someone trained in Tactical Krav Maga,”

There are a few different styles of Krav Maga.

Krav Maga Thailand our version of krav maga is called Tactical Krav Maga, is a version of
Krav Maga developed by a former Israeli Special Forces Paratrooper called Itay Gil, who then served 9 years as an Undercover Anti Terrorist Operative in the Yamam (The Yamam are an elite SWAT Counter Terrorist Team, that work undercover, tracking extreme terrorists, so their members have to know how to protect themselves, and defend against armed assault. Hand to hand fighting is very common in the secret missions, they take part in, and so Yamam members must know what works in a real life hands on life or death violent encounter). Then Itay became the unarmed combat instructor of the Yamam and other top Israeli Special Units.

Krav Maga Thailand Tactical Krav Maga it is a very simple, but effective version of Krav Maga. Simple, as we want you to remember it, if you are attacked...if it is complicated, you will never remember it if you have to use it under pressure. In Tactical Krav Maga, you will learn the exact same system as trained by the Yamam and other special military and undercover police SWAT units.

Krav Maga has spread globally, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Police and State Police Departments, and US Army Special Forces, all use Krav Maga as an unarmed fighting methods, and weapon disarming system.

Tactical Krav Maga which Krav Maga Thailand Pattaya the famous beach resort where Thailand Krav Maga Instructor Gerry Nolan is based says, "Tactical Krav Maga is for everyone Male, or Female, Beginner or experienced student. In fact Tactical Krav Maga is not a Martial Art like Karate, we have no formality, no fancy Karate Suits, and we do not train in our bare feet. We are only interested in what works in a street situation, and train to survive on the street, and protect ourselves and our loved ones."

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Civilians in Thailand can now learn to protect themselves against violent street attacks with the same martial art self defense krav maga skills as learned by Israeli Special Forces Soldiers.

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