Welcome to Kensington & Chelsea School of Krav Maga

The School is run by Senior Instructor Paul Simpson- Urban Krav Maga Instructor and Personal Trainer

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Here at the Kensington & Chelsea School of Krav Maga in the heart of West London we practice and teach Urban Krav Maga a system founded by a group of instructors experienced across various styles of Krav Maga and other fighting systems. Urban Krav Maga is a scenario- based system, the syllabus being based on defenses against the 10 most common street attacks in the UK. These are based upon statistics compiled from the police.

 

The core syllabus also contains a range of techniques applicable to female self-defense, grappling (stand-up and on the ground), fighting/sparring techniques and weapons defenses.

 

The techniques we employ are relatively simple and easy to learn. They rely on gross motor skills which remain effective under the intense stress of a real street attack. The training we provide will enable you to handle aggressive, stressful or violent situations with confidence; improve your fitness; and you will have fun while learning a useful life-skill.

 

Urban Krav Maga is not affiliated to any military organization. The system is designed for civilian self protection and addresses the scenarios you may face in modern city life. We have no political affiliations and it is very important to us that our school is a place where people from many diverse backgrounds can come and train together and make good friends.

 
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NEWS from the School

24/04/09-

Russian student disarms carjacker in siberia

I was being driven away from a business meeting in Novosibirsk (Siberia) and I had my window open as I was smoking and sitting in the front passenger seat. As we pulled up to the traffic lights 2 rough looking guys that were crossing the street ran up to the car, one to the drivers side and the other to my open window, this man pulled a gun. He shoved the pistol right inside and tried to grab me yelling to open the doors (as they were locked and the drivers window was up the other man was banging on it). Straight away I grabbed the attackers right hand (the one holding the gun) with my right hand pushing away and then grabbed the gun with my left hand. I had trained with Paul exactly how to deal with this particular gun (a makharov russian army issue and one of the most common in this part of the world) so I made sure my hand was over the slide and my thumb under the hammer. I executed the disarm by pulling his wrist towards me and tearing the gun from his hand. The driver put his foot down and we were gone leaving the attacker standing in the middle of the road with his gun in my pocket.

All that happened to me was a bleeding thumb and a massive hit of adrenaline.
I started training with Paul specifically for this reason. I spend half my time in Knightsbridge and the other half in places like Novosibirsk (Siberia) where incidents like this are all too frequent. If I hadn't trained with Paul I don't know what would have happened. For sure I would have lost my company car,wallet phone etc but also maybe I would've been killed.

I have only been training with Paul for 3 months but he makes everything so easy to understand that I already feel confident with a large proportion of the system. Thanks Paul I will be now upping the number of sessions I train with you.

Vitoly (pseudonym)

 

03/02/09-

Female Urban Krav Maga Student Fight back - and wins.

One of our lady students was attacked recently. She handled it brilliantly and the attacker was left with more than a few bruises. Read the story below:

 

"I was just getting off the bus after attending a party with some friends. I was alone as my friends were gone, and the bus was at its last stop. I stepped off the bus, walked a few meters, the bus pulled away and a man seemed to come out of nowhere. He was around 6ft 3"-6ft-5" tall, and stocky holding a beer can in his hand. He came straight towards me shouting and swearing right in my face, I was a little surprised, but was not too startled as there was really no time to figure out the situation. Before his hands came up I dropped my bag and went straight into his face with an eye gouge, gripping his head tight with a mixture of finger tips and nails, which sent the beer can flying and his hands straight up to mine. I held on but was pushing hard which sent him backwards; I got in 2 palm strikes to the nose, managed to knee him in the groin twice but it was a bit unsteady with the 1st kick and the 2nd kick was the one he seemed to feel. He fell backwards on the ground holding his nose and groin, I fell down on him too as I was leaning in towards him with the palm strikes making me unbalanced, but as I was getting up I continued on him with 4 more palm strikes to the face… as I hurried away I called for an ambulance for him.

 

The lady, let's call her Margaret, did a fantastic job here, particularly as she has only had 10 lessons with us. From a training point of view we see this as vindication of our practical, scenario-based approach. If it kicks off there's a good chance that you'll be holding a bag, so we condition people to drop the bag and counter attack aggressively. We teach pre-emptive strikes as a fundamental part of the syllabus, who knows what would have happened if Margaret had let this jerk continue and lay his hands on her (I suspect that she would still have knocked the hell out of him but I'm glad that I'll never find out). We also train for the real chaos and mess of a real fight - things go wrong, Margaret shouldn't have let herself get taken down by the guy but she responded perfectly by continuing the assault on the guy. N.B. the use of heel-of-the-hand strikes rather than punching: very effective close-in, where most fights actually take place, and you don't end up with aching and cut knuckles.

Congratulations to Margaret and her teacher, Aasim.

 

26/06- Urban Krav Maga is now featured on the NUTS Magazine website check out the link below

WATCH URBAN KRAV MAGA FEATURED ON NUTS MAGAZINE'S WEBSITE HERE


22/06- Urban Krav Maga Instructors train the Metropolitan Police how to deal with crime on London's public transport network


 


Urban Krav Maga in Reality-

"I was walking through Marylebone Station and as I exited the station, I was asked by a man walking behind me whether I had any money. I said no. He persisted in his questions. I had a pregnant friend with me and was mindful of a situation occuring.

I turned to the man and responed negatively that I had no money. The man came closer to me. I put my hand on him (putting up the fence) and told him I didn't want any trouble. He got annoyed. I asked him to calm down. At that point he asked me again for money and threatened me with a stabbing if I would not comply. I asked him whether he had ever had his hair in a ponytail in order to distract him, following quickly with an elbow strike to the face.

 

There was a tussle, I stuck my fingers in his eyes and disengaged. I made sure my friend was ok and then walked quickly back to my office entrance.

When interviewed by the Police I was positively commended by them on my pre-emptive behaviour when threatened by a potential attacker, well known to them and our security.

 

From one lesson with Paul (Urban Krav, Kensington and Chelsea) I managed to employ the fence technique to gain space and protect myself and distract my attacker so that I could pre-empt his threat to stab me. Paul could well have saved my life."

George B.- Lawyer after one lesson with Paul

 

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