They'll push you. They'll never leave you behind.
A Krav Maga diploma isn't enough to teach at KMI.
Plenty of schools hire on grade alone. We don't, because being good at Krav Maga and being good at teaching it to a nervous beginner are different skills, and only one of them is what you are paying for.
Interview and background check
Before anything technical. We are putting this person in a room with beginners, with kids, and with people who arrived because something happened to them.
Tested on skill and on teaching
Two separate assessments. Being able to do it and being able to teach it are judged independently, because they genuinely are different.
Two-year supervised probation
New instructors teach under supervision for two years before they lead classes alone. There is no shortcut through this.
Lineage, and what it actually means.
KMI instructors hold diplomas from the recognised international bodies: IKMF (International Krav Maga Federation), KMG (Krav Maga Global), and Tactica KMI. Several have been graded and assessed in Israel, where the system originates.
Lead instructors carry between 10 and 30 years in the system. Many arrived from somewhere else first: Judo at national-team level, Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing. That matters, because Krav Maga borrows from all of them and a coach who has genuinely done the source material teaches it better.
Instructors keep training and keep being assessed. Holding a diploma is the start of the standard here, not the end of it.
Who you will actually train with.
InstructorJomarJudo for Puerto Rico’s national team, then Krav Maga and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, three to six times a week.Read more →
InstructorCameronKrav Maga since 2016 from Jukido Jujitsu, Taekwondo and kickboxing. Harvard engineer, de-escalation first.Read more →
InstructorChrizNew York native who came to Krav Maga for practical self-defense and earned the rank of instructor through dedication.Read more →
InstructorEmiOver a decade across boxing, Muay Thai, Capoeira, Karate, Jiu-Jitsu and Krav Maga. FEMA-certified Incident Commander.Read more →
InstructorMiaStarted at KMI as a student, instructor since 2025. Teaches women-focused self-defense and foundations classes.Read more →
InstructorBrunoKarate, Ninjutsu and Taekwondo before Krav Maga in 2013. At KMI since 2016, teaching since 2022.Read more →
InstructorGerardoCertified by KMI in 2022. Striking shaped by years of Muay Thai; heavy emphasis on strength and conditioning.Read more →
InstructorTomStarted at KMI in 2014 at 48, one class a week. Fully certified instructor; finds coaching adult beginners most rewarding.Read more →InstructorGregTwenty years of Jiu-Jitsu, more than a decade of it teaching. Leads the Ground Game classes.Read more →
InstructorKonradMore than ten years in Krav Maga. One of KMI’s most experienced instructors.Read more →
InstructorHowardFive years at another New York Krav Maga school before KMI. A lifelong focus on real self-defense.Read more →
InstructorShownyayTen years of self-defense training before KMI. From dedicated student to dedicated instructor.Read more →Information without emotion isn't retained.
That principle drives the method. Technique is taught, then drilled, then tested under controlled stress, because a skill you have only ever performed calmly is not yet a skill you have.
Scaled to the person
A good coach reads the room and adjusts every drill to the person doing it. That is the difference between pushing someone and losing them.
Repetition on purpose
Classes drill the same foundations deliberately. Nobody apologises for it. It is the reason a technique eventually happens without you deciding to do it.
Judged by the students
The honest measure of an instructor is the quality of the people they have taught. Come and train with ours.
Meet them in person.
The induction is led by a head instructor whose job is teaching beginners. Seventy-five minutes, $39, credited toward joining.
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