History
The ideas of Krav Maga Survival are based on the concepts of various Israely close combat masters.
The basic idea has further been influenced by the founders Taiyo, co-founder Glenn Jordheim and the connected instructors and advisors.
The solution will continuously be improved by the excellent technical advisors who have agreed to help developing Krav Maga Survival continously. Students and instructors of the Krav Maga Survival Organization are likewise encouraged to help developing the best techniques for the best possible solution.
The Krav Maga Survival solution was founded in recognition of the Israeli masters who combined their excellent ideas with their experience to create a successful system which gave a tool for their target group.
However as technology develops and communication has brought a revolution to spreading information and techniques, the founders of Krav Maga Survival used the newly available information in combination with the basis of the Israeli grandmasters to create an improved satellite of the existing and very well rounded systems.
One of the important basic ideas is to make Krav Maga Survival available to everyone who has the right spirit and deserves to be taught – NOT using religion, political conviction or gender as a criteria – Also the system must be available to everybody with no regards to their economic background. Fees payed to the Krav Maga Survival Organization or instructors are recommended to remain at a reasonable, but low level.
Further it is a basic thought to make techniques law-conform (legal). This means that besides the usual Krav Maga techniques, Krav Maga Survival is building a solution which uses “proportional use of force”. Fight only with the means you have to – but be sure to be the one in control when fighting.
Tactical survival is also an idea used in the Krav Maga Survival solution – you will be taught to use the idea of having a plan before getting in trouble or even better: learn how to avoid getting in trouble.
Krav Maga Survival does everything possible to keep in contact with the grandmasters and their extremely valuable knowledge and developments in order to preserve their ideas. However the opportunity to combine the best techniques from all existing Krav Maga systems as well as other traditional martial arts systems with practice orientated modern sports, is kept.
This is the Krav Maga Survival solution: “to create and keep developing the best solution available under the conditions of reality based – easy to learn – close combat situations for professionals and civilians.”
Taiyo, 2006