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The Reason I Created In 1999 I found a Krav Maga school, one of
only a handful in the country at the time. In
Toxic Fighting. Krav Maga I found something that was a lot
more suited to what I was after learning. The
Since the age of eleven I have studied Mar- approach to learning was more direct and a lot
tial Arts of various styles and many of them simpler than anything I had learnt previously.
I have really struggled to learn or retain. In And so in 2003 after attending classes for 3
a bid to remember what I was being taught I years I attended and passed the IKMF Krav
would often take a pen and note pad with me Maga Instructor Course.
to try and make notes straight after the lesson
but I was still struggling to remember what I After I passed the course it allowed me the
had learnt, even so soon after the lesson had opportunity to set up my own Krav Maga
finished. School.
In those days there were not the plethora of The Transition From
books or videos, let alone DVDs that there are
available today. Krav Maga To
Toxic Fighting.
It was difficult for me to remember what went
where, how my body should be positioned etc.
Some things were just not making sense and The change came about after 8 years of tea-
the body positions didn’t feel natural. And in ching Krav Maga I had noticed that what I was
addition many of these Martial Arts were using currently teaching was no longer resembling
foreign names for techniques. the Krav Maga I had been taught. Over the
