LEVELS

In Krav Maga, training levels are typically categorized into three main stages: Practitioner, Graduate, and Expert. Each of these stages includes various sub-levels that represent the student’s progress and experience. Let’s break down each stage:

1. Practitioner Level

• Description: The Practitioner Level is the initial stage where students learn the basic techniques and principles of Krav Maga. Students start with fundamental self-defense skills and gradually progress to more complex techniques as they advance through the levels.
• Sub-levels: P1, P2, P3, P4, P5
  • P1 (Practitioner 1): Basic self-defense techniques, such as punches, kicks, and evasions.
  • P2 – P3: Advanced basic techniques, introduction to knife defenses, release from holds.
  • P4 – P5: More complex defense techniques, such as dealing with multiple attackers, defense against attacks with objects, introduction to stick attacks defenses  and combining techniques.

2. Graduate Level

• Description: At the Graduate Level, students have mastered the basic and intermediate techniques of the Practitioner Level and now focus on more advanced and strategic techniques. Training at this level involves more complex and dynamic situations, such as defense in confined spaces and handling multiple attacks.
• Sub-levels: G1, G2, G3, G4, G5
  • G1 – G2: Deepening skills in defense techniques in various scenarios, such as defense against multiple attackers and adapting to different environments.
  • G3 – G4: Development of tactics for handling dangerous situations, such as hostage scenarios, close-range weapon defenses.
  • G5: High-level defense and attack techniques, combining and applying skills in real-world conditions.

3. Expert Level

• Description: The Expert Level is the most advanced stage in Krav Maga. Students at this level have already developed a deep understanding and mastery of Krav Maga techniques and now focus on specialized and complex techniques.
• Sub-levels: E1, E2, E3, E4, E5
  • E1 – E2: Specialization in defenses under extreme conditions, such as military applications of Krav Maga, advanced hostage defense techniques.
  • E3 – E4: Development and application of tactics in group scenarios, survival situations, and combat conditions.
  • E5: The highest level of Krav Maga, focusing on strategy and the development of new methods and techniques.

Promotion Between Levels

Advancement from one level to the next requires intensive training, practice, and success in exams that assess the student’s performance in the techniques and strategies corresponding to each level.

These levels help students systematically progress from the basic principles of self-defense to the most advanced and specialized skills.