Protect-Combat Solutions

04/19/2026

Excited for the day Itay returns to America for training!
Anyone interested please reach out! This is something I can organize if there is a want or need!

Itay Gil is back in Germany… finally!

Itay Gil is an officer (Captain/Major) of the Israel Defense Forces. He initially served with the paratroopers and later became a member of the elite unit Yamam (comparable to GSG 9). There, he was not only an operational fighter but also the chief instructor for close quarters combat (CQC). Overall, he has many years of operational experience, at times involving multiple deployments per day—up to the present day. Gil is considered a representative of “reality-based” Krav Maga, heavily shaped by real anti-terror operations. He is the founder of the Protect Krav Maga system, which is based on military practice.

His approach focuses on stress resilience, simple and robust techniques, and application under real-world conditions (weapons, multiple attackers, etc.). To this day, he trains the Israeli Border Police, undercover units, and international special forces (e.g., SWAT, as well as units from other countries).

PROTECT is still involved in protection and training programs for high-ranking politicians and public figures.

Itay Gil is regarded as one of the “OGs” and a key representative of modern military Krav Maga. He has further developed Krav Maga toward a more tactical combatives system (less “sport,” more operational reality).

His appearance in the documentary “Human Weapon” attracted worldwide attention.

Itay Gilcis International Krav Maga Director of FIMA and Director of the International Military Combatives Organization (IMCO).

This weekend, Itay will address the sensitive topic of knife defense, specifically knife attacks/situations against a wall and on the ground.

For information and registration, please contact: [email protected]

For the first time, a public discussion round with instructors and students—across different styles—will take place after the seminar. The seminar is open not only to all associations but also to all styles—especially MMA practitioners and representatives of different Krav Maga approaches are warmly invited to explore Itay’s method and participate in the discussion.

02/02/2026

This is how I have healed and strengthened my shoulders while cutting the bulky muscles down, becoming stronger and more dense, but smaller.
Being big is not an advantage in anyway!

01/23/2026

I may not be as good as someone of the geeks that do all the tricky stuff, but I can make it sing!

01/18/2026

Daily progress.
I plan to start putting my Nomadic Ready For Anything Training videos with our truck on here.
I'll show men how to be men!

12/28/2025

Nomadic Boxing
Anywhere and everywhere
Never let yoir dreams die

12/20/2025

Mayweather boxing club seen it's 1st real boxing in a long time!
BOXING

09/21/2025

Through much prayer, research, study and especially personal experiences (I've been healed of unimaginable thing's), Ive been lead to a plan for my healing.
I plan to wake (usually between 3 and 4 AM) and get straight in 🧊 bath for 3 to 4 minutes.
As I'm freezing cold I will bear crawl a mile. (I'm at a half mile and working my way up to a mile).
The benefits from dropping core body temperature and raising it through difficult exercise are bigger than anything I have found besides fasting.
Long distance bear crawling gives activates all core muscles and forces me to hold core and spine while hips and shoulders pivot in opposite directions, building strength, control and endurance in the muscles while they are filled with blood. This teaches the body to perform correctly, holding spine with core under extreme stress!

Going to a 7 day cycle with my diet for awhile. Fast for 24 hours, eat carnivore for 3 to 4 days then add fruits back in for a couple days, start all over. This is the diet that seems to make my body the strongest and drives testosterone through the roof when paired with ice bathing and hard exercise!

My back was injured badly during a fall at Yosemite in the spring. I herniated a disk in middle of my back, then my daughter got blisters on her feet, so I had to carry her down close to 5,000 feet of elevation. Then I drove about 8,000 miles before making it back to Traverse City, Michigan.
My recovery has been very painfull/difficult and I've been limited majorly, for months. Most people don't realize that Boxing is all about good posture and maintaining it while moving in every different direction. Boxing has been the only thing to make my back feel better and this has led to my boxing getting so much better. I'm very grateful for the help in Boxing, but this injury has kept me from sleeping through the night since April and it's mid September.
I had to find a way to heal this injury and get back to my very physical life!
I was off to prayer and research, how I handle most difficult situations.
1st I tried every physical therapy stretching and exercises. While some of these would give temporary relief (while doing some stretching I would get relief, but it return within minutes) the sauna was the only thing seemed to give real and last relief.
I found myself awake and almost crying in pain in the middle of the night (sleeping was the worst part), I would be waiting for The Gym to open so I could spend a few rounds Boxing, get into sauna, then take a nap and I was able to finally deal with my pain and condition for the rest of day (8am). By night I was hurt and scared to lay down. On my rest day (Sabbath) I would suffer the most and it would become almost unbearable each time I rested.
I realized that if I followed modren traditional means (physical therapy method) to heal my back, it was probably going to need surgery and a life of limitations, because that is what is most common for my injury.
I decided to study Bruce Lee and how he healed his back from a worse injury than mine. His injuries were actually from doing a heavyweight "good morning" during weight lifting, not in a fight like the movie's show😆.
I was intrigued that his injury that was considered debilitating and permanent, until modern surgery, was conquered by strengthing the muscles and learning how to control his muscles to hold a perfect posture and align his spine perfectly. Truly he was never able to heal the actually injury, but was able to find a way to not only live with it, but Truly challenge the entire world to fight him at 140lbs!
His fighting and philosophies were developed not in spite of his injuries, but because of his injury.
If you research Bruce Lee's injuries you will see most modren articles will say that Bruce Lee never fully healed and was in pain until he died, saying that he could have immensely benefited from modren surgery! What they leave out is that what we all know of Bruce Lee is BECAUSE AND THROUGH his injury 🤔! Also these modren surgery may releave the pain, but they do take away some of the physical abilities. Bruce Lee could have gotten out of pain with surgery, but I wouldn't be discussing him right now, because he wouldn't be the legend we know him as.

Bruce Lee used many plank variations and different core exercises to strengthen muscle holding spine, but mostly learned control and endurance, so the body naturally (which is unnatural and learned) would hold spine even in extreme circumstances like a fight.
I started with plank variations like Lee, but I quickly realized that crawling (bear crawling mostly, but some other variations like alligator or spider man crawl for stretching) was one of most impactfull and beneficial things I could do besides perfect posture boxing. I definitely see where Lee's philosophy of healing back through focus, core, exercises, diet and fight (good fighting requires perfect posture and balance). Funny the movie of Bruce Lee's life shows his injury from fighting, but in real life, it was actually fighting that healed him.

08/22/2025

Boxing has been my dream since childhood!
At 39 years old my dreams are becoming a reality!
Never give up on your dream's!!

08/07/2025

Check out the new website!!!

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07/26/2025

Love is Correction, NOT Affection!!
Correction is 🔑KEY🗝 to everything in life!

Can you be corrected?
Do you have an expert to correct you?

These two are the 🔑KEYS🗝 to successes, accomplishments, and most definitely championships!

As a child I had NO good role models. My father was only an expert in working harder than other men, partying and drug dealing. I truly HATE his words, "do as I say and not as I do"!!!
Children follow your actions, desires, and dreams. If your actions don't match your CORRECTIONS, your effort will be rewarded with resentment, detest and enmity, rather than the obedience and discipline that was being sought after.

Very pertinent here is Hebrews 12
6 For את whom Yahuah 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 loves He CORRECTS, and scourges every son whom He receives.
7 If you endure CORRECTION, Aluah deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father CORRECTS not?
8 But if YOU BE WITHOUT CORRECTION, which all who have become partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

These are mighty words of Scriptures and there are many more Scriptures alike, please see Proverbs 3:12, Jeremiah 10:24, Proverbs 6:1 and the list could go on forever.

I've only ever had 2 men who were willing to correct when I am wrong.
Bill Bustance (Trigger Boxing, expert boxing coach) and Itay Gil (Major of Yamam, anti-terrorism and top special forces team on earth, he is the Grand Master of Krav Maga)
No matter how I feel or how much effort I've put in, if I am wrong, they will CORRECT me.
This is no easy task! These men care for me and know I look up to them. It's their LOVE, for me that causes them to CORRECT me, when they know it will break my heart in the moment, but it will make me much better in the future! They choose the difficult road of being a REAL coach, mentor, instructor and man.
I've heard the disappointment in both these men's voices at times when they have had to CORRECT me and when they read this, my hope is that they know it's there CORRECTION that have helped me become the man I am today.

Experts make experts!!! This is a fact! Even
Sports science, research has proven that genetics has ZERO to do with why the best distance runners are from Kenya, sprinters are from Jamaica, skiers from Austria or so on. The research proved it is because the best athletes in that category were from there and the other athletes around can train with the best in the world, "iron sharpens iron"
If you want to be the best, find someone who has trained with the best, trained the best, has been the best.
Sport science shows that, not only can you become like the best if you train like or with the best, but you can become better!! This is how Sports progress.

If you want to become an expert in any category, you must decide to dedicate oneself to the task, find an expert or at least someone better than you. Be willing to be CORRECTED. This will put anyone on the path to becomimg an expert at anything.
I sought out and worked really hard to establish training and relationship with the men who are experts in Combat, Hand to Hand, Boxing, Jiu-Jitsu, Maui Thai and more. I've found a couple very special men who have become mentors to me and are absolutely experts in their fields. They will always CORRECT me in LOVE, when Im wrong, even if it's very difficult to do.
I am so very grateful to Itay and Bill, for all their CORRECTIONS!!