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Amazing Krav Maga
BY MOSHE KATZ
CEO
ISRAELI KRAV INTERNATIONAL
April 10, 2026, Israel
Americans tend to use hyperboles, Guys that was a Fantastic class!! You are all Amazing!! Super!! way to go, you rocked this, my coach is the greatest ever, Eh-ver! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
It seems that other cultures are not this way. From what I have experienced, Germans, Russians, although they have such words in their language, tend not to use them but to stick to more modest and humble terms as such Sehr gut (very good), khoroshiy (good). Israeli women tend to flatter each other which - you are simply gorgeous, you are a beauty queen, when in most cases, attractive would be far closer to the truth.
I am not going to judge which approach is better. However, I will relate it to Krav Maga.
The last I want to hear is - You are Amazing. The word amazing is associated with wonder, or the unbelievable. The word Fantastic is related to the word Fantasy. Unreal! is..un real, not real. I want our Krav Maga to be real.
If someone says - this is amazingly simple, amazingly easy, amazing how simple this is compared to other styles, that is fine with me. But for people to walk out of a seminar and feel like they have just seen the Harlem Globetrotters or the Chinese Jugglers, i.e. incredible feats of talent and coordination that take years to master and only the most talented can even attempt them, that is the opposite of what I want.
I will use an analogy.
I am currently studying the period of Ezra and Nehemia, in Jewish history. This takes place around the years 539 before the common era, (BCE) and continues for the next several decades until about the middle of the 5th century BCE.
This is a remarkable period in Jewish history; the Jews exiled to the Babylon, now conquered by Persia and Cyrus the Great, are given permission to return to the land Judea, their homeland, rebuild the Holy Temple of Jerusalem and rebuild the wall around Jerusalem. What is even more remarkable about this period, as Prof. Yosef Klausner points out, is that this is considered an important period in Jewish history, one filled with events of treat magnitude even though no supernatural miracles took place.
This is extremely important.
The nation of Israel returned from Exile, they rebuilt their temple, established Jerusalem once again as a city of Jews devoted to the Torah and God, rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, and yet, "no divine miracles took place." What the professor points out is it all happened in the way of nature, in a very "normal" natural way. Of course, if you are a believer, we see all this as Divine; God put it in the heart of Cyrus to grant the Jewish exiles the right to return home and rebuild the Temple and Jerusalem, and so forth. However, there is no splitting of the Red Sea, there is no Thundering voice at Mt. Sinai as the Torah is given, there is no angel emerging from a cloud to speak to a prophet, there is only men with tools building a large building. And that is the point, we don't need a "miracle", we don't need the flash, the jumping kicks in the air to disarm a knife attacker, the flashy precision motions to disarm a gun attacker, we dont' need a miracle. We need you, an ordinary to person, and the miracle is that you showed up to class and trained consistently.
That my friends is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, you are the truth, and you do not need anything Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to succeed in Krav Maga. I can teach anyone to disarm a gun, or defend against a knife attack, without doing gravity defying acts of balance, or Grease Lighting movements that require perfect timing, precision and years of training. All extra movement are superfluous, we share Bruce Lee's idea of minimalism, Economy of Motion, not gravity defying gymnastics designed to.... attract students, impress Hollywood choreographers or impress your "audience".
I have always said, I want you to walk out of my seminars, impressed, not with me, but with what you can do. If I can do it, so can you. And if I cannot teach it to you in a short amount of time, that what is it all worth?
Miracles? Amazing? no, ordinary, show up to class, train, practice, tie your shoes, eat your bowl of rice, and clean. That is all there is.
Moshe Katz, 7th dan Black Belt, Israeli Krav Maga. Certified by Wingate Institute. Member Black Belt hall of fame, USA and Europe.
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