Brazilian Jiu Jitsu | Muay Thai | Kickboxing | Krav Maga Welcome to the Community

BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) is not just a form of self-defense, it’s a complete package of skills that boost self-confidence, improve health, and promote personal and public safety. The goal is to control and ultimately submit a resisting opponent. It is generally easier to control an opponent on the ground than in a standing position so most of the techniques in BJJ center on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground and then wrestling for a dominant position. With the right training, a smaller person can subdue, control and ultimately submit a larger, stronger and more aggressive person using leverage, grip and position. Students gain a deeper understanding and working knowledge of how the human body works, learn about themselves and how to push your limits.

Our BJJ classes in NYC are designed to teach the complete arsenal of skills necessary to protect oneself. One of the side effects of training and mastering these skills is improved fitness, which is why so many of our clients sign up for these classes to knock out multiple goals with one stone: fitness, self-defense, and career development.

In fact, BJJ is an effective and preferred method of hand-to-hand, grappling combat for professionals who expect to experience resistance or physical violence as part of their job. Law enforcement officers and security professional can get comprehensive on-the-job training at our institute.

Our Brazilian Jiu Jitsu classes are no fuss, no flash, and no dawdle. The truth is that BJJ requires very little equipment; it’s mostly hand-to-hand.

Contact us now to learn more or to sign up for a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu induction class.

Muay Thai or Thai boxing is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This physical and mental discipline which includes combat on shins is known as “the art of eight limbs” because it is characterized by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins, being associated with a good physical preparation that makes a fighter very efficient mentally and physically.

Our classes not only improve your fitness, strength, and endurance, but your understanding of the human body as well as combat strategies in the heat of the moment. You will gain a greater understanding of how the human body works, how to leverage a smaller size against a larger opponent, and how to use your skills to your advantage.

While you can sign up for our classes with the intent of improving personal fitness and self-defense, you will find a very purpose-driven instruction strategy. Professionals in security, law enforcement, and film stunt work come to us to complete and master the skills necessary to protect themselves on the job. As the only Krav Maga-certified institute in New York City, we take self-defense philosophies and techniques very seriously.

Contact us to find out how to add Muay Thai strategies to your fighting arsenal.

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) classes are heldonce per week for students interested in practising no gi BJJ and Muay Thai in the same class. The class is held at 107 Chambers Street and only open to students with the requisite experience.

Our kickboxing classes are not just group fitness classes. They are designed to improve your mental and physical strength. There’s no denying that one of the foundations of a strong mind and body and your ability to defend yourselves and others, is professional level physical and mental strength and fitness training. Specialized strength and fitness are important factors in getting the most out of professional level self-defense and fighting training.

KMI is a modern self-defense, fighting, tactical training and strength and fitness center. It is not a gym, we provide training in self defense, fighting and mental and physical toughness training that promotes a positive and robust mind set, elite-level strength and fitness, awareness, quality of life, good health and ultimately, longevity.

Kickboxing is part of S.P.E.C. – which stands for Specialized Physical Education Course, it is a Martial Arts and Krav Maga based fitness system.

S.P.E.C. is our strength (mental and physical) and fitness program. It is a comprehensive strength and fitness system usually practiced in a range of classes but covered under one class here in NYC called Combat Cardio (c2).

Our NYC strength and fitness classes maximize mental resilience, physical strength, anaerobic/aerobic resistance, and overall defensive effectiveness. KMI is a self-defense and martial arts school with a core focus on strong minds as well as strong bodies.

The program includes:

Cardiovascular and Anaerobic Fitness. Endurance, power, strength and interval training. The part of the NYC program will take you to the next level of fitness, increasing cardiovascular endurance, physical strength and agility.

Combative techniques and striking forms including punching, kicking, and other reinforcing combative strategies. The goal of this class is to boost power, agility, and endurance while improving fighting skills, striking technique, and defensive effectiveness.

Kettlebells for strength and power allowing a complete strength training experience that works the entire musculature. Working from the core to the lesser muscle groups, this technique uses functional and combative movements to make you a stronger and more agile fighter.

KMI’s martial arts classes for kids teach more than effective fighting skills—we provide children with the confidence and self-esteem they need to stand up for themselves. We want them to know that they are allowed to fight back when someone is trying to harm them. In school and in life, children are typically told not to fight.

The classes provide children with clear boundaries on when and where it is appropriate to fight back. Give your child the opportunity to learn self-discipline and provide them with the sense of accomplishment that comes with learning a valuable life skill with KMI’s self-defense classes for kids.

The Krav Maga Institute NYC holds daily reality-based and effective self-defense classes all over New York City. Krav Maga is not a traditional martial art. It’s not competitive, and there are no rules, belts, katas or rings. It is a modern and practical form of self-defense designed for the streets, bars and nightclubs and for those trips abroad. It focuses on battle-tested, easy-to-learn techniques, strength and aggression building, and realistic training.

Krav Maga consists of practical techniques derived from boxing, Muay Thai, Wing Chun, Judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, grappling, and street fighting. Modern Israeli self defense classes focus on building self-confidence, practical fitness – including stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy – and acquiring knowledge while learning practical and easy-to-learn self defense techniques. The skills learned in classes help improve the quality of your day-to-day life.