
Learn Krav Maga-based self-defense in a 12-module program designed to get you fight-ready in 24 hours, focusing on real-world strategies to stop or escape a life-threatening attack.
Discover how real violence unfolds, why assaults start long before contact, and how abuse of space and surprise predict attacks in everyday encounters.
Learn how victim selection cues, including body language and space, influence an attacker’s decision, and why backing off or maintaining distance is discussed as a response.
Learn how the ooda loop informs personal space in self defense, using hands up strategy and arm's length rules to deter predators and assess threats.
Learn to manage personal space with Krav Maga by keeping hands up, elbows in, and ensuring strangers stay outside an arm's length to deter assaults.
Learn to de-escalate threats with space control, verbal boundaries, and a structured escalation continuum in Krav Maga, focusing on leaving safely and deterrence rather than combat.
Learn Krav Maga self-defense basics with open-hand strikes to the nose, driving power from the feet, delivering multiple strikes to deter attackers and get home safely.
Learners explore how to respond when a headlock escalates into a messy struggle. They practice open-hand strikes to the groin, nose, and eyes, then escape and exit to safety.
Learn to escape grabs and headlocks in module three by dropping your weight, shooting back with elbows to the brain stem, driving knees, and progressing to arm and body control.
Learn to escape grabs from behind by using shifts, groin strikes, palms, elbows, and knees, while changing height and applying terminator training to keep attacking until the opponent releases.
Module 5 trains close-quarters Krav Maga to wedge the hip, drive knees, break grabs with palm strikes, and counter chokes, groin attacks, and finger plucks, plus ground escapes.
Discover how to break chokes from front, behind, or side with a simple approach: block and pluck, then attack to create space and escape.
Module 7 covers close-quarters Krav Maga using elbows, palms, and knees in forward blasting to escape and strike, with the Dracula elbow and chin-tuck technique.
Learn Krav Maga for self defense fast, module 8, focusing on defending against a rear naked choke from behind, using talking to create space and quick knee and palm escapes.
Master defending and escaping the rear naked choke using shoulder twists, chin control, and knee strikes, while shin hacks and finger grips create space for counterattacks.
Explore Krav Maga self defense for extreme close quarters, emphasizing awareness, escape, and decisive countermeasures such as biting, ripping, gouging, and head butts to protect yourself and family.
Join our in-person Real " Person" 12 Module Self Defense Course
We have been teaching Krav Maga for Self defence for almost 25 years
We believe for self-defense to be effective it needs to be learned fast, easy to remember and work under pressure for most people, which is why we have developed our unique course which has been taken thousands of people in person.
Based down a laneway in Dublin, Ireland, Patrick Cumiskey has been teaching everyday normal people to protect themselves full time for more than 15 years, during this time he developed a simple approach to teaching normal people to protect themselves fast using essential Krav Maga concepts.
If you can’t make it to his in person, you can now take the course online.
You can ‘join’ in a course and get the same lessons and insight as those attend the course.
To make this course available 2 cameramen tracked a full 2-day course and which was then edited it down to the essentials for you to watch, learn and follow along with. There is no ‘staging’ or retakes so you get the course as it is delivered in real life.
The course is taught in 12 modules Each module builds on the previous module step by step, over the 12 modules you will develop a practical, useful and simple self-defence system deal with common stand up self-defence threats.
We recommend you grab a partner and follow along with one module at a time, watch the module and following along with the exercises and drills.
The course starts off in Module 1 by giving you a key grounding in avoiding being selected as a victim and how to strike and escape, it then moves on to more difficult and complicated scenarios integrating ideas with ever module.
Module 1
“Winning beforehand”,
Predator Psychology and Avoiding Victim Selection
A simple “Hands up” rule that changes everything
The No Trip Wire and Voice Escalation
Striking Fas to Escape
Module 2
Escaping Headlocks
Escape from Front Grab - Arms Pinned
Integration Drills
Becoming the Attacker
Attacking at different Levels
Module 3
Dealing with the Scuffle,
Techniques as Hurdles
Escaping from a Grab Behind with your arms Free
Escaping from an Arm Drag
Desensitising you to Violence
Linking Techniques
Introducing Stress Drills
Be worse than the attacker
Module 4
Escaping Grab from Behind with Arms Pinned
Using your Knees as Weapons
Generating Power
Kneeing on a Low Line
Changing Weapons and Height
Integrating Techniques
“Save the Pad’ Exercise
Techniques as Obstacles
Module 5
Escape from the Front
Wedge Defence
Slapping, Ripping and Pinching
“Knock Knock” Escape
Escape from the front grab Arms Pinned
Choke Release ‘- Avoiding relying on Strength
Module 6
Chokes from Different Angles
Choke Release as one Move - Pluck and Hit Principal
Escaping with Chokes when pinned to a wall
Multiple Choking Drill
Technique Integration
Techniques are not ‘clean’
Plucking ..Why you do not need too many techniques
Hicks Law
Module 7
Focus on Elbows as a Weapon
Alternating Weapons
Blast forward… put the attacker on the Back Foot
Stabbing Elbow
Blasting for Self Defence - Quick to Learn, Easy to Remember
Inbuilt protection
Diagonal Elbow
Your Attack is your Defence
Blast to Escape …"we don't want to be here! not a sparring session"
Module 8
Escaping rear-naked choke: Part 1
Hammer strike to the base of the brain
"Pluck" as a tactic
Understanding the Fantasy Response
Tucking the Chin
Inside Defence
3 on 1 Choke Drill
Module 9
Rear Naked Choke Part 2 - Outside Escape
Practising Both Rear Naked Choke Escapes
Arms Pinned: Close in Tactics
Shin Hacking
Creating Space
Finger Ripping
Ripping and Tearing at the groin
OpenING space for other attacks
Leverage Elbow- to freehand and attack
Integration Drills: High-Pressure Drills
Being the coach and stretching your partners
Module 10
Ferociousness
Biting and the Biting Game
The Finger Game
Biting, Finger and Pinching Game
Extreme Close Quarter Fighting
Fighting to Live
When you are Attacked ..your whole life is attacked
Growling like a Wild Animal
Tearing, Gouging using all close quarter weapons
Will up you get Hurt more for fighting?
The efficacy of Self Defence
Module 11
Extreme Close Quarter / Ferociousness Continued
Right Tactic Right Range
XCQ - hands to Face Drill
Cheap Suit Drill
Shielding Defence Against Punching
4 Man Drill - Blasing, Escapes, XCQ
Module 12
Round-Up - Putting it all together
Focus on Essential Skills
Train Module by Module
Combatives Mindset
Awareness/Space Management
Activating Self Defence Mindset
Having a Plan.. Think about coming Home
The No Trip Wire
Simple Striking Model: Palms, Elbows, Knees + XQC
Chokes- Pluck Escape
Self Defence Mindset and Ferociousness are key
How to get the most out of this course.