Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 1

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #1 - jab
• #2 - jab and cross
• Technical to review combos
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute

Gun Defense Part 1

"Principles and tactics we use to survive a confrontation with an assailant armed with a handgun."

Steps

• Review Gun Defense Knowledge Domain on board
• Live Demonstration

Practical Application

Use gun as a cold and hot weapon once the gun is disarmed

• Gun from the front redirect to center
• Gun to front redirect to outside
• Gun to front redirect upward
• Gun from the front with other hand pushing
• Gun from the front with barrel pushing
• Gun from front under chin
• Gun from front while on knees
• Gun to temple
• Gun to side in front of arm
• Gun to side behind arm

Training

• Training with a partner - alternating responsibility (emotion drives attack)
• Training with a partner - operator starts with eyes closed to be surprised by attack
• Stress drill - strikes on pad non stop, partner attacks with gun, disarm and go back to striking pad
• Train in operational territory - respond to attack getting out of cars, getting into cars, walking in parking lot, walking out a door, etc.

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 2

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #3- cross, hook, cross
• #4- jab, cross, hook, cross
• Technical to review combos
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute

*Add a rear leg or lead leg knee after each combo

Gun Defense Part 2

"Principles and tactics we use to survive a confrontation with an assailant armed with a handgun."

Steps

• Review Gun Defense Knowledge Domain on board
• Live Demonstration

Practical Application

Use gun as a cold and hot weapon once the gun is disarmed

• Back touching
• Back not touching
• Back touching close
• Back hostage gun is pointing at temple
• Back hostage gun is pointing forward
• Gun pointing at someone else while you are standing perpendicular to gunman
• Gun pointing at someone else while you are standing next that person facing gunman

Training

• Training with a partner - alternating responsibility (emotion drives attack)
• Training with a partner - operator starts with eyes closed to be surprised by attack
• Stress drill - strikes on pad non stop, partner attacks with gun, disarm and go back to striking pad
• Train in operational territory - respond to attack getting out of cars, getting into cars, walking in parking lot, walking out a door, etc.

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 3

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #5- right uppercut, hook, cross, left uppercut
• #6- left uppercut, cross, hook, right uppercut
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute
• Start from covers and strike on cue - 1 minute

Tactical Handgun

"Offensive tactical use of a handgun in self defense."

Steps

• Review Knowledge Domain Tactical Handgun on board

Training w/ Cold Weapon

As a cold weapon the handgun is used for striking:

• Diagonal strikes with bottom of muzzle
• Straight thrust with front of muzzle (from shooting position and barrel grip)
• Hammer fist to side with muzzle

Training w/ Hot Weapon

As a hot weapon the handgun is used to shoot: use rubber guns to practice dry fire and airsoft guns to shoot

• Shooting position sequence- standing isosceles, step forward to one knee, move back to sitting, lay on back, reposition to side, reposition to other side, reposition to back sit up to one knee, move back
• Stress fire (striking)- Engage from 3ft, 6ft, and 10ft after punching pad for 30sec at each distance (5sec or less to shoot)
• Stress fire (absorbing)- hold gun in two hand retention position while being bumped by pad then on cue engage threat at specified distance
• Close contact shooting (from single arm retention)- hold gun in single hand retention position while being bumped by pad then on cue engage threat at close contact

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 4

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Conditioning

"To prepare for our Advanced Test we will engage all out in 5 x 1min."

Fit Test

• 1 minute push ups
• 1 minute sit ups
• 1 minute front kicks and round kicks on pad
• 1 minute punches and round kicks pad
• 1 minute punches on pad

*Total reps min goal is 400

Sparring

"Sparring is the application of offensive and defensive techniques against an active opponent."

Strategy

• Attack different levels from different angles using combinations. No one can block everywhere at once, so go for openings or create openings.

Distance is Key

• You control the distance between you and your opponent by your movement, feints, and attacks. You can stay outside of attacking range, move into 3 striking ranges, clinch for vertical grappling, or takedown to ground fighting.

Closing the Gap

• Enter with attacks or on a broken rhythm.

Defense

• Evade - move off the line of an attack but to counter you must close the gap
• Block - deflect an attack and counter immediately due to contact range, otherwise move because you maybe opening yourself up somewhere else

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 5

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #7- duck left, hook, cross, hook
• #8- duck right, cross, hook, cross
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute
• Start from covers and strike on cue - 1 minute

Tactical Handgun

"Offensive tactical use of a handgun in self defense."

Steps

• Review Knowledge Domain Tactical Handgun on board

Training w/ Hot Weapon

As a hot weapon the handgun is used to shoot: use rubber guns to practice dry fire and airsoft guns to shoot:

• Sprint in single hand retention - engage threat at 10ft
• Move through a crowd (in single arm retention) - get to threat and engage at 10ft
• Multiple threats - engage multiple targets
• Threat and no threat - turn away from target, on cue turn and engage threat targets only
• Move off the X- laterally move right or left while shooting
• "Slicing the Pie" - engage a threat around a corner
• Shoot from cover - engage a threat from behind cover
• VIP Protection 2 guards - one jumps in front to engage threat while the other escorts principle away
• VIP Protection 1 guard - arm sweeps in front of principle to move him behind and engage threat

*Use double taps on all drills

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 6

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #9 - slip left, jab, cross
• #10 - slip right, cross, jab
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute

Control Techniques

"Techniques used to subdue or restrain an attacker for control or arrest."

Tactical Takedowns

• Front rotation head push to put assailant in seated position
• Leg sweep
• Rear neck flexion to put assailant in seated position
• Front tackle
• From seated position to take to belly down pull arm around leg and guide head

*Apply takedowns during all self defense 30sec each: chokes, headlocks, and bear hugs

Tactical Locks

Rotational locks - rotating a joint beyond normal range of motion

• Twisting wrist lock
• Figure 4 shoulder lock
• Hammer lock

Hyperflexion Locks – decreasing the angle between two parts

• Downward wrist lock
• Reverse downward wrist lock
• Goose neck wrist lock
• Chicken wing wrist lock

Hyperextension Locks - bending a joint against its normal range of motion using a fulcrum

• Arm bar
• Knee bar

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 7

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #11 - left cover body, left duck, left hook to body, left hook to head, cross, hook
• #12 - right cover body, right duck, right hook to body, right uppercut, left hook, right cross
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute

Leathal Force Techniques

"Lethal force objectives are only employed if the defender is under reasonable apprehension of imminent death or grievous bodily harm with no other means of escaping or surviving the violent encounter."

Incapacitation Techniques

Disabling the attacker by affecting the systems of the body: respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system and skeletal system.

• Vascular neck restraint
• Ankle crush
• Attacks to the spine

Termination Techniques

Used to cause internal decapitation or cervical dislocation by rotating the neck at an angle beyond its normal range of movement. This action disrupts the medulla, at the junction of brain and skull, by separating them. It will relax the veins of the body, blood will not return to the heart, and the person is thus dead -- zero cardiac output -- before the body falls to the ground.

• From side head control
• From rear standing
• From rear seated
• From rear standing back to back

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 8

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Conditioning

"To prepare for our Advanced Test we will engage all out in 5 x 1min rounds."

Fit Test

• 1 minute push ups
• 1 minute sit ups
• 1 minute front kicks and round kicks on pad
• 1 minute punches and round kicks pad
• 1 minute punches on pad

*Total reps min goal is 400

Sparring

"Sparring is the application of offensive and defensive techniques against an active opponent. (light contact)"

• Round 1 - Punches only (body and head)
• Round 2 - Punches with takedowns (body and head)
• Round 3 - Kicks only (legs, body, and head)
• Round 4 - Kicks and takedowns (legs, body, and head)
• Round 5 - Punches and kicks with takedowns (legs, body, and head)

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 9

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #13- left leg block, cross, hook, round kick
• #14- right leg block, hook, cross, switch round kick
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute

Knife Threat Response

"Principles and tactics we use to survive a confrontation with an assailant armed with a knife"

A Knife Threat

Means an aggressor is using the knife as a form of intimidation to reach one of 4 possible objectives:

• Possessions- money, wallet, purse, watch, car, etc.
• Bodily harm- murder, abduction, rape, torture, revenge, etc.
• Information – interrogation, identification, etc.
• Recognition- attention to their grief or cause

Tactical Response

• A) Blade at trachea - redirect to direction blade is pointing, circle pass to under hook side control, chose from there
• B) Blade at carotid-pass with opposite hand to direction blade is pointing, ending up in under hook side control, chose from there
• C) Blade at back touching- turn to identify threat, redirect with arm, step in with elbow, knee groin, takedown #1
• D) Blade at trachea from rear hostage- trap, rotate in, head pops out, stab
• E) 3rd Party blade from rear hostage- push elbow, pull wrist, arm bar to ground
• F) 3rd Party blade from rear hostage- push elbow, pull wrist, arm bar, figure 4 shoulder lock to ground

Possible End Objectives:

• "Get away"- defend attack, violently counter, escape
• "End it" - defend attack, violently counter, cervical dislocation or disarm and use the blade offensively

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 10

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #15- right elbow, left elbow, right elbow, step spin left back elbow, right elbow, right knee
• #16- left hook, right elbow, left elbow, spin right back elbow, left elbow, left knee
• Impact on focus mitts - 1 minute
• Start from covers and go on cue - 1 minute

Knife Threat Response

"Principles and tactics we use to survive a confrontation with an assailant armed with a knife"

Tactical Considerations

• If you are able to detect that the attacker has a knife, deploy a weapon immediately or burst in to control the weapon limb and counter attack aggressively.
• However, statistics show that knife attack victims seldom realize a knife was deployed until the confrontation was over, either by the nature of their wounds or a knife left at the crime scene. This is because a knife can easily be concealed and people tend to get immediately fixated on what they perceive as the most threatening which in most cases is the attacker’s intimidating stare or yelling mouth.
• In the best possible situation you will get cut and the worst you’ll die. With adrenalin pumping you won’t feel the blade stab into you, only the pummel as it hits. It takes time to die from knife wounds, you will more likely pass out.
• It’s difficult to be surgical in such an extreme and unpredictable attack. Specific attacks can be identified but understand the knife can change direction from moment to moment.
• Keep in mind the aggressor may be under the influence or have a strong desire to harm you. Your response must be immediate, decisive and aggressive.

Practical Applications

• A) Slashing- universal cover, burst in, control position, knee, rotation takedown, strike, disarm or leave
• B) Thrust- redirect, counter attack, control weapon limb, disarm
• C) Ice pick and upward stab- block, counter attack, control weapon limb, objective
• D) Random- in universal shield get cut then burst in with universal cover, attack, takedown #1
• E) Random from rear- get cut then burst in with universal cover, attack, takedown #1

Possible end objectives:

• "Get away" - defend attack, violently counter, escape
• "End it" - defend attack, violently counter, cervical dislocation or disarm and use the blade offensively

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 11

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Combination

"These are specific combatives linked together to form various combinations."

• Wear all fight gear
• #17- left front kick, right round kick, land back, spin back kick
• Impact on heavy bag - 1 minute
• Impact on pads moving around - 1minute
• Offense and defense with partner - 1 minute

Tactical Knife

"Offensive tactical use of a knife in self-defense."

Tactical Considerations

• Cover Knowledge Domain Tactical Knife on board
• Grips with knuckle alignment
• Forward grip: blade is thumb side
• Reverse grip: blade is pinky side

Attacking Methods

• Stabs: use the tip of blade to puncture – practice stabbing different angles
• Slashes: use the sharp edge of blade to slice – practice cutting different angles
• Blunt Trauma: use the pummel end to strike – practice striking different angles
• Technical training to air and image to partner

Stab / Slash Sequence

• Upward stab, slash out, stab armpit, slash throat, pull head down, stab spin, slash carotid artery

Triple Pass Stab Drill

• Redirect, pass, grab elbow, stab, and repeat

Reverse Grill Drill

• 1) Outside parry the downward stab
• 2)Inside catch, clear, trap
• 3) Slash as you outside parry, clear, trap

Straight Stab Drill

• Slash bicep, pass, grab elbow, stab, grab shoulder, twist blade and cut to back, stab brain stem

Flow

• Forward grip - straight stab, block stab, pass, slash neck, slash other side of neck, circle pass
• Reverse grip - redirect, slash, stab neck, block, cut up, pass, block, pass, ice pick stab

Reverse Grip Flow

• A) Downward stab, turn slash up and parry down, downward stab
• B) Outside parry and slash, stab kidneys, catch slash out

*Switch Roles

Krav Maga Advanced Phase A - Week 12

Warm up

• Let's warm up to accelerate your heart rate and increase your breathing
• Perform Rotations, lunge series, dynamic stretches (hamstrings, quads, knee hug, ankle pull w/ knee push), jump rope 3 minutes

Warrior Conditioning

"To prepare for our Advanced Test we will engage all out in 5 x 1min."

Fit Test

• 1 minute push ups
• 1 minute sit ups
• 1 minute front kicks and round kicks on pad
• 1 minute punches and round kicks pad
• 1 minute punches on pad

*Total reps min goal is 400

Sparring

"Sparring is the application of offensive and defensive techniques against an active opponent. (light contact)"

• Round 1- straight punches and hooks (body and head)
• Round 2- round kicks and front kicks (body and head)
• Round 3- straight punches and front kicks (legs, body, and head)
• Round 4- hooks and round kicks (legs, body, and head)
• Round 5- all strikes (legs, body, and head)