What is Krav Maga?
What sets Krav Maga apart from MMA and Martial Arts?
Class Concepts!
Pressure Drills:
Pressure drills represent a crucial element of our self-defense training, designed to simulate the high-pressure conditions encountered in real life situations. During such scenarios, individuals often experience heightened agitation, narrowed vision and increased heart rates, which can complicate the execution of techniques. Although we cannot fully replicate these conditions in a classroom setting, we effectively simulate them by exhausting students requiring them to perform techniques under duress. This method not only familiarizes students with executing techniques in critical but also develops their improvisation skills for adapting and escaping attacks. Our Krav Maga techniques are intentionally structured to function at sixty percent proficiency, ensuring practical application in real scenarios, while we continually strive for excellence in training. Additionally, pressure drills provide an excellent workout.
Slow Fighting:
Slow Fighting is a beginner-friendly type of sparring aimed at refining strategic skills. In this practice, two engage as if in a typical sparring session, but all movements are performed at fifty percent speed or less. This method effectively neutralizes physical advantages such as strength or speed, encouraging participants to rely critical thinking to outmaneuver their opponents. Furthermore, the reduced pace provides students with the opportunity to thoughtfully assess their responses to while developing their ability to recognize visual cues indicative of an opponent's forthcoming moves.
Krav Maga Core Principles
Do not get hurt!
take your ego out of it! Avoid or run from potential physical conflict. If this is not possible, de-escalate if you can. If de-escalation doesn't work then get away safety anyway you can.
No Rules!
There are no rules in a street fight! If attacked use any advantage you can find. Distractions, improvised weapons, the environment, and remember to target vulnerable locations.
Use Natural Reflexes!
Krav Maga techniques are based on the average persons natural reflexes. Because of this our techniques are easier to learn and more natural to use.
Reasonable use of force!
Stop striking when the fight has gone out of your attacker / attackers.
The fight is not finished until your are safe!
Once the fight has gone out of your attacker / attackers run! Escape to a place where you are safe from further attack.
Class Features!
Located at
MMA World Academy
15 Grand Marshall Dr, Scarborough, ON Canada
M1B 5N6
.jpg)
"Be ready for when that really bad day comes looking for you!"
Head Instructor
SHAYNE
BIFFIN
What will you learn?
Krav Maga Class's Teach
-
Keys to surviving common modern day threats -- including home invasions, ATM muggings, attempted abductions, rape scenarios.
-
Defences against knife threats and attacks.
-
Defences against handgun threats.
-
Defences against chokes.
-
Defences against stick-like objects (baseball bats, tire irons, etc.)
-
Defences against bearhugs, hair-pulls, hand-grabs.
-
Using common objects as weapons.
-
Combat tactics
-
Basic combatives; including punches, kicks, elbows strikes, hammer-fists, knees, headbutts, etc.
Taboada Blintawak
-
striking and defending
-
Combat tactics
-
Fast movement and reaction time
What To Bring
-
Wear comfortable pants and a t-shirt.
-
Men are strongly advised to wear a protective cup for Krav Maga classes..
-
Woman are advised to wear a protective Jill for Krav Maga classes
-
Bring wrestling boots or martial arts shoes if you have them.
-
Bring a bottle of water.
-
A towel
Fitness Training!
Elevate your fitness journey with our comprehensive training sessions, where every class kicks off with a half-hour warm-up that incorporates cardio, strength training, and dynamic stretching Join us to build strength, improve flexibility, and boost your overall in a supportive environment!
Games!
Our fitness games transform traditional workouts into engaging and enjoyable experiences, using games to replace standard drills and exercises. By incorporating a fun competitive element, students not only practice essential self-defense techniques but also find themselves motivated to push their limits and achieve greater results.
Weapons Weekend Classes!
Join us on the first full weekend of every month for our Weapons Weekend classes, where we delve into techniques designed to defend against armed attackers. Enhance your skills and in a supportive environment as you learn from experienced instructors.
Combat Jazz Weekend Classes!
Join us for Combat Jazz on the last full weekend of each month, where we shift our focus from traditional techniques to essential fighting skills. Including defense and counter combinations, as well as tactics. These unique classes also allow novice students to practice slow fighting while advanced students engage in sparring, enhancing their overall abilities.
What is
Taboada Balintawak?
Taboada Balintawak is a single stick style of Filipino martial arts developed by Grand Master Bobby Taboada.
What is a
Taboada Balintawak
Training Group?
Shayne Biffin has taken on the role of Group Lead for the Balintawak Training Group under Guro Peter Mitchell of Stick Fighting Toronto. Our Training Group works through the Taboada curriculum facilitated by Shayne with the option to test for levels under Stick Fighting Toronto as they are completed. Shayne’s goal is to become a Fully Qualified Instructor (FQI) of the Taboada System.
GM Bobby Taboada
Who is
GM Bobby Taboada?
GM Bobby Taboada
Founder of Taboada Balintawak
Grandmaster Bobby Taboada was raised in Cebu City. After studying karate, boxing, and other fighting arts, GM Taboada was introduced to the Balintawak school founded by the Great Grand Master Venancio “Anciong” Bacon, headed at the time by Grand Masters Teofilo Velez and Jose Villasin.
His training was “old school”. Sessions would end bruised, battered, and potentially bloody. Out of this fire, guided by Masters Bacon, Velez, and Villasin, was forged an effective, tested, and highly skilled martial arts master and teacher.
GM Taboada still teaches at the headquarters for his Balintawak International organization, in Charlotte, NC. Since his arrival in the U.S., he’s been a self-defense instructor for the North Carolina Justice Academy, assisted in crime prevention programs sponsored by the North Carolina Sheriff’s Academy, and been featured in dozens of articles and magazines.
GM Taboada has trained martial arts experts and practitioners all through the US and around the world, in countries such as England, Australia, Germany, Canada, and more. He has produced a dedicated group of Fully Qualified Instructors (FQI), authorized to teach his Balintawak curriculum throughout the world.
Taboada Balintawak
Curriculum
Level 1:
-
Basic blocks side to side
-
Basic blocks high, low, center
-
12 basic strikes in control
-
12 basic strikes full power
-
Shadow fighting form
Level 2:
-
12 defense and counters in control
-
12 defense and counters fill power
-
Semi-hitting while in defensive stage
Level 3:
-
Group 1- Lifting and clearing
-
Group 2- Lifting & clearing with head movement
-
Group 3- Preparation for body flexibility
-
Group 4- Preparation for body flexibility
-
Group 5- Defense vs punches while in stick fighting motion
Level 4:
-
Butting techniques
-
Pushing and pulling
-
Power striking
Level 5:
-
24 Disarming techniques
-
Feed levels 1 through 5
Level 6:
-
12 semi-advanced techniques
-
able to guide and teach levels 1 through 5
