Kravmagacoach - Skill acquisition accelerator

16/04/2026

One more milestone in our tiny-tiny channel😎💪
Thank you all sunscribers and welcome everyone to join us👊

16/04/2026

The use of nonlinear coaching methods like representative practice design, the constraints-led approach and generally ourcome-driven methodologies are becoming more and more common.
It is simple, not easy and as it may look very chaotic at first, the self-organizing kicks in when we encourage it.

In this video we’ll walk you through on How to use nonlinear pedagogy in coaching and how it accelerates skill development and helps to transfer from practice to reality.

Yours truly,
Tommi Nystrom
FIMA representative Finland

2 likes. "Learn how to use the nonlinear coaching to teach the choke releases as they appear in reality"

11/04/2026

Today’s work with awesome group of people. Weapon retention/disarm, two sides of the same coin when trained with that attitude and then spicing up with some airsoft to teach the stupid should hurt lessons. Never the real thing but trying to make it as close as possible.

22/03/2026

Happy Sunday everyone from FIMA & Krav Maga Finland!

Today’s video is about building situational, representative, exercises with pads using the visual feedback as the punch to ”choose”.

The less expertize the trainee has, the more important it is to use this type of external task/feedback methodology.

The more experience one has, the harder tasks (e.g., pads hitting back) we must create.

Safe failing is the key element in getting more skillful, so let that happen and focus attention by it👊

Topic: Learn How Visual Feedback Accelerates Skill Acquisition | Krav Maga Self Defense TrainingLearn how visual feedback can dramatically accelerate your sk...

21/03/2026

This is golden🙏
I find it amazing (a bit) that in practically all techniques in krav maga, one just needs to understand a situation;

🥊 one’s mindset at the moment
🥊 One’s body position at the moment
🥊 Opponent’s behavior offering the ”opportunities to operate” the best at the time (”affordances”)
🥊 Emotions, startling, adrenaline-rush…

All that drive the natural reaction.

Then the principles like
- the fastest way, is the best way
- closest weapon to closest target
- minimum /maximum (binding two above together)
- don’t get hurt (or hit)…but if you do keep on fighting putting the outcome as priority..

Once I started to understand this, didn’t have to ”remember” any movements, just think about the situational factors listed above, make s training exercise out of them and then play😎

Now this may not play well with the ”focus on the mechanics” learning but it fits right in with the outcome focused learning.

People remember stories, so let’s create small tales. (Some call this scenarios). As stories have different diversions, changing one part will make a twist but as long as the main idea of the outcome (”the principle”) stays the same, so will the practice.

Theoretical principles vs Practical use in Krav Maga

At the beginning of Krav Maga there was no system in the modern sense

There was a person

Imi Lichtenfeld z”l

What shaped Krav Maga was not theory

It was a personal experience

Violent anti Semitic streets in Europe

Service in military and underground forces

And years of training in wrestling boxing and jiu jitsu

But his experience did not exist in isolation

It was built on others

His father Samuel Lichtenfeld

A police detective in Bratislava

Who exposed him early to violence law enforcement needs and physical training

And later

The collective experience of Jewish fighting instructors who taught before him and along side with him before the establishment of the Israeli state.

What was taught then had different names but all aimed

for a reality driven approach

This is where Krav Maga was shaped

Not as an idea

But as an evolution

From many experiences

Tested in real conditions

From that reality techniques were adopted/formed

From those techniques patterns were recognized

And only then did principles begin to take shape

This is the key point

Krav Maga did not begin as a collection of ideas

It began as a response to real violence

Which raises a question for us today

Are we still building a system driven from reality?

Or are we building from explanations of principles?

Because if the foundation changes

The system changes with it

Principles should grow from experience

Not replace it

Krav Maga is not built on theory

It is built on what survived reality

20/03/2026

Good Friday people!

This time we’ll focus on two important factors of self-defense situations:
1. In every defensive action we must take away the opponent’s balance. Physical and mental.

2. How to make the OODA loop play in our favor as we overwhelm the opponent’s observation and never let them past the orientation.

In the defensive techniques this means CONTACT.

It also means that we need to learn to read the feedback, i.e., what our actions are causing and how to ”always be closing” (like any good salesperson😎)

Creating exercises like this is every instructor’s job, since training realistically means that the attacker’s do move and react.

Stay safe and savage💪👊

Coach Tommi Nystrom
Krav Maga Finland
FIMA Representative for Finland

Topic: How to Use the OODA Loop in Self Defense | Krav Maga Mindset & Reaction TrainingLearn how to apply the OODA Loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) in rea...

18/03/2026

Good Wednesday from FIMA Finland!

This time thinking about the skill of adapting.

Adapt, you must..BUT FIRST HONE THE FUNDAMENTALS…

Anyone else finding the controversy in this? First train something that changes immediately once there is a responsive opponent.

According to the principle ”fastest way is the best way,
Wouldn’t the fastest way in learning be:

🥊Demonstrating the problem that needs to be solved (and no, it is not a single punch or kick but attacker’s behavior)

🥊Discussing and figuring out the best outcomes

🥊Setting up a task-orientated exercise

🥊 Giving an exertal-orientated cue (“strike like a snake”)

🥊 Let the ”kids” play and watch what happens

🥊 During the play:
# Help everyone to maintain the focus of attention,
# Use smart constraints,
# Celebrate and empower successes
# Enciurageto try new things
# Suggest movement solutions (re-cue and re-focus the attention)

🥊Debrief
# Demonstrate what you saw happening
# What technical solutions came up in different situations
# Use directed visualization aka “shadow boxing”(close your eyes, go back to the game, respond to the opponent’s actions)

Take a leap to the live side.

Watch the video and tune to the channel to get new ideas to teach the fundamentals.

Experience to understand.

Topic: Learn to Adapt by Training Adaptability | Krav Maga Self Defense DrillsIn real-life self defense, there is no “perfect technique.” The key to survival...

17/03/2026

Good Tuesday from FIMA Finland & Kravmagacoach weekly training tip!

This week we’ll look at a situation in which the ambush comes from the front with only a second or so to rise to the level.

Training for this kind of ”setting” has many layers, the most important one being the focus of attention: lions don’t block👊

The baseline is to use the task-orientated-training, focus on repeating the outcome.

During training everyone gets instant feedback from success and failure.

Coach’s job is to the adjust the cues and constraints, simplify or complicate to fine-tune the exercise.

All level of trainees can train together!

Topic: Krav Maga Weekly Situational Training | Real Self Defense Drills | ShortsIn this Krav Maga Weekly Situational Training, students practice realistic se...

01/03/2026

Hi everyone!

This is the long-form video on the exercise of the headlock defense with the attacker’s intention to slam the target-person down and continue beating there.

We have discovered that focusing on the instant attack rather than thinking about the release mechanics Produces better outcome.

Also setting the scene so that we understand (and especially when we play the attacker) the attacker’s intention, the training session becomes a lot better.

We’ve been using this training methodology (ecological dynamics, CLA, Representative practice design, scenario-based learning and nonlinear pedagogy in general) now systematically since 2019 and found so far that the learning results are amazing compared to the past 20 years. For instructors more challenging but also more rewarding.

Learning the adapt is a natural part of every session.

If you want to learn more about our experiences and findings, do contact directly.

Tommi Nystrom
Krav Maga Finland
FIMA Representative for Finland

Topic: How to Transfer Headlock Defense to Real Life | Train to Adapt | Krav Maga Self Defense TipsIn this video, we break down how to transfer your Krav Mag...

01/03/2026

Hi everyone!

One thing that is generally missing from self-defense training is establishing the attacker’s intention and actually practising that before jumping on to the solution. SO READING THE QUESTION FIRST😂😎

By doing so we can focus on the possible answers better.

It will be easier to point out the ”key success factors” of surviving aka ”the principles” and repeat those.

Here’s the short version of the longer exercise video coming up later on with the attacker intention of throwing/slamming the target person to the ground with a side headlock.

Enjoy the show, subscribe to the channel and most importantly TRY OUT THE TRAINING APPROACH.

Topic: Head Lock Defense Recap | Learn to Adapt in Training | Krav Maga Self Defense | ShortsIn this Head Lock Defense Recap, we break down how to escape and...

08/02/2026

Good Sunday to everyone!

Today we celebrate again a small milestone in our youtube subscriptions!

So thank you everyone for also subscribing to our youtube channel! Now at 1900 subscribers🙏🙏🙏🙏

If you have not yet subscribed, take a look and do it now🙏👊

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Yours Truly,
Tommi Nystrom
Krav Maga Finland
FIMA representative for Finland