Krav Maga Dublin Self Defence Classes & Tuition - IKMF(International Krav Maga Federation)

Hello and welcome to Krav Maga Dublin, the largest and longest established Krav Maga School in Ireland. With full time professional instructors, We have classes, courses and seminars available 7 days a week running from early mornings to late evenings. Private tuition is also available on request. As well as our civilian classes, we regularly teach members of the Defence Forces, Gardai, Close Protection Bodyguards, Fisheries Officers etc. Our headquarters are based in the Hard Target School of Self Defence in North Co Dublin. Be sure to sign up for our free monthly newsletter for all upcoming courses.

It is important to note that any student wishing to train in the Official Krav Maga Syllabus should only train with Instructors that have been tested and graded to Instructor level under the strict guideline of the IKMF headquarters in Israel. All official instructors will have been tested by Mr Eyal Yanilov. Mr Yanilov is the highest ranked Krav Maga Instructor in the world today. He is the only person ever to be awarded the grade of Expert Level 8, Master Level 3. All Official IKMF Instructors will wear the official seal of the IMI system, this seal can be seen at the top right hand corner of this page.

Reality Based Self Defence Classes

Krav Maga has been taught to hundreds of law enforcement agencies and thousands of civilians worldwide. If you are interested in attending one of our Krav Maga classes or a Self Defence seminar's let us give you a brief insight: The rule we live by is 'not to give Krav Maga students false hope'.

My full time Hard Target Self Defence School, has trained thousands of clients form every walk of life- civilians, prison officers, close protection operatives, security guards and government officials. We are also very happy to say that many schools have now availed of our services as a regular part of their physical education classes.

Every module in our curriculum is completely pressure tested.

Small Sample of What We Teach on Regular Basis:

• Developing a Self Protection game plan.
• Understanding the criminal's mind-set & M/O.
• How to recognise the pre-cursors of an attack.
• Developing a combative mind-set.
• Understanding adrenaline reaction - Pre conflict, in conflict and post conflict.
• How to strike with feet, knee's, elbow's, hands and head.
• The use of improvised weapons.
• Defence against edged weapons.
• Defence against baton, bats etc.
• Defence against firearms.
• Ground fighting & grappling.
• Third party protection.
• Release from chokes, strangles and grabs.
• Fitness training for combatives.
• Self Defence & the law and much more.

This is just a sample of our curriculum - If you are interested, why not apply for one of the introduction courses, and then decide if Krav Maga is what you are looking for. You have nothing to lose, and plenty to gain. And maybe some day that decision will save your life! The system greatly emphasises training a combative mindset. This is what makes up 90% of what we teach. Anyone who may be reading this that has ever been involved in REAL LIVE attack will understand how important it is to develop this NEVER LOSE mind-set.

The real thing is not pleasant, it has no finesse about it, forget about what you see in the movies, forget about the UFC (for example this states "As Real As it Gets" because it simply is not). We don't have the options of a 'tap out', a referee stoppage, no bell will sound apart from the one on the ambulance and you can forget about throwing in the towel. The Krav Maga / Self Defence student obviously has to start with the basics. Strikes from all angles and ranges, with hands, elbows, knees, head, feet, bites, spit etc. What we teach is a survival system. If our initial plan of avoidance & escape has failed, then we teach all students to strike with maximum explosive power and keep striking until the threat subsides. We are constantly reminding Krav Maga students, that how they train is how they will react. We spend many hours training the student's mindset, we must remember that REAL self defence is 90% mindset & 10% technique.

Some of the traditionalists who claim to be teaching self defence techniques are teaching 90% technique & 10% mindset at best. From past experience's I feel it is important to gradually expose this very aggressive Krav Maga training method, I need to build up a confidence level in the group, when I achieve this, the students are more willing to throw in full aggression & emotions into the drills. But of course, my other Instructors and I are always very aware as to how far we can push individual students.

Why not read some of our students testimonials

Krav Maga - As Real As It Gets

Aidan Carroll is regularly featured on TV3, RTE Radio 1, 2fm, 98fm, Sunday Inpendent, Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post. He is also the MD of www.focusfitness.ie Focus Fitness Personal Training & Self Defence Systems. Aidan is the only person in Ireland qualified and sanctioned as an Instructor in Geoff Thompson's Real Combat Self Defence System.