Commando Krav Maga
A Canadian offshoot of Israeli self-defence led by Moni Aizik. It leans more on judo and jujutsu than the Krav Maga mainstream.
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About Commando Krav Maga
Commando Krav Maga, CKM for short, is an offshoot of Israeli self-defence associated with the name of Moni Aizik. The year of origin is not documented and this page therefore leaves it out; the figure 1990 that previously stood here could not be verified. Aizik's documented path runs as follows. He was born in Israel, began martial arts at eight under an instructor named Opa Schutte and trained in judo and jujutsu; he won the national judo title seven times. After military service he trained at Maccabi Tel Aviv, and in the 1980s he moved to North America, where he taught at a Jewish community centre in Toronto and later founded the Samurai Club. From 2006 he began spreading CKM internationally. Caution is required here, and this page admits it. Aizik states that shortly after the Yom Kippur War he was asked to improve the army's existing hand-to-hand system, but this claim, and some of the accounts of his students, are not independently documented and are disputed. The entry is therefore marked as disputed. Technically CKM differs from the Krav Maga mainstream in what it builds on. Where the Israeli schools proceed from the Lichtenfeld line and from an army syllabus, CKM is built on Aizik's background in judo and jujutsu supplemented with Israeli elements. In practice this means a greater share of grips, throws and ground work than in lines that stress a short striking response and an exit.
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