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Welcome to 15 Minute Krav Maga

Now you can learn Krav Maga at home from one of the top Krav Maga instructors in the US. All our techniques are taught in fifteen minute lessons so you can learn on your time, even if there is no Krav Maga gym close to you.

About Us

Coach Mark

Mark Slane is the United States Krav Maga Association founder. In 1998 Mark was a member of the very first group of outside instructors ever trained at the Krav Maga National Training Center in Los Angeles. He then went on to open one of the first half dozen Krav Maga schools in the United States. Mark became a black belt in November of 2003 (one of only two dozen in the U.S. at the time) and is now a 5th degree black belt. He has trained in Israel with one of only 12 whom the founder of Krav Maga (Imi Lichtenfeld) trained from beginner to black belt, Grandmaster Yaron Lichtenstein.

Mark has studied martial arts for nearly 40 years. He started his training in Tae Kwon Do in 1986 and holds a fourth degree black belt in that art. In Olympic style Tae Kwon Do, he won a national championship in sparring in the lightweight division – 33 to 40 year old age group. He has also coached and trained dozens of national medalists, national champions, U.S. team members and World medalists. Mark has trained in boxing for several years with Olympic Gold Medalist, Jerry Page and has spent years studying Muay Thai, BJJ, and Mixed Martial Arts as well.

Mark has been published in Black Belt magazine and is the author of five books on Krav Maga (available in our store). Mark is a retired Firefighter/Paramedic and has spent his retirement training thousands of civilian students as well as LEO's across the nation.

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Free Lesson, Choke from Front Defense

Free Lesson, Choke from Front Defense

The Principles of Krav Maga

Krav Maga is a tactical mixed-martial art/combative and self-defense system that combines Boxing, Judo, Jujitsu, Muay Thai and Wing Chun. If a technique is valuable, Krav Maga has stolen it and made it its own!

Self Defense Practice

Neutralize the threat

The first goal in Krav Maga is to be safe by neutralizing the threat as quickly as possible. This goal is what Krav Maga is built on. Because the goal is to be safe and stop your attacker as soon as possible, pretty much anything goes in Krav Maga. You can’t worry about a code of fighting ethics or a never hit first mantra when your life is on the line. We teach to do whatever you have to do to preserve your life.

Keep it simple

There are no complicated moves, locks, or anything superfluous in our techniques. Krav Maga was designed to flow with natural body reactions and gross motor skills to defend as soon as possible.

Simultaneous defense and attack

Most martial arts treat defense and offense as separate actions, e.g., first you block an attack then you hit or kick afterwords. The problem with this approach is that you end up 'taking turns' with your attacker. In Krav Maga, we look to combine an offensive movement with every defensive movement — we teach to have our first defensive movement be combined with an attack and then to go off like a bomb, never allowing the attacker a second shot at you.

Retzev, or continuous motion

retzev, is a Hebrew word for “continuous motion.” As stated in the above paragraph we want to 'go off like a bomb' and never allow the attacker a second punch, kick, etc. Our goal is to quickly get through the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Attack) and keep the attacker in the OODA loop. For example, handgun defense: If we attempt to grab and twist the gun out of the attacker's hand, they realize something is being done (Observe), realize that something is us going for the weapon (Orient), decide they are going pull on the weapon and strike us (Decide) and then go through with the plan (Attack). Our handgun defense in Krav Maga is, as we go for the weapon, we deliver a groin kick. Now the attacker who was Observing and Orienting never gets to Decide or Act because they are 'reset' to observing and orienting to a groin kick...and then the next strike...and then the next one.

Use of weapons of convenience

Weapons were invented so that smaller, weaker people could protect themselves from the larger and stronger as well as few being able to protect themselves from many. Krav Maga teaches students to improvise and use any object handy as a weapon. Keys, fire extinguishers, pens, belts, chairs, etc. can all be incorporated into Krav Maga techniques to neutralize an attacker as quickly as possible.

Weapon defense

Besides teaching students how to use weapons, Krav Maga also shows students how to defend themselves from an armed attack. Law Enforcement and military units have long known that Krav Maga has the easiest to use, most effective and simplest to learn weapon defenses in the world!

Ground, standing and bad position training

If attacked we must be ready for anything. If the attacker is a wrestler or ground specialist, it would make no sense for us to only train stand up. If the attacker is a boxer, we may very well be better off taking them down. We have no idea what attacker/attack is coming for us and must be prepared for anything. Krav Maga was way ahead of its time and was including MMA (mixed martial arts) decades before the UFC was introduced!

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