ABOUT US

About Warriors Krav Maga LKNThe logo of warriors krav maga

Here is a 30,000-foot view of the site so you can learn about us. We are the headquarters of Warriors Krav Maga. Located in the Lake Norman area of the Carolinas, we offer training in the Israeli military’s tactical defensive system. There are a lot of different Krav Maga organizations, so what sets us apart? We believe we can prove that we’re the most complete Krav Maga organization in the US. What do we mean by that? Not only do we teach you the techniques of Krav Maga but we incorporate two bonus concepts because they’re critical.

  1. An understanding of the legal ramifications of what you learn with us. There is an infamous but true story of a kid who learned how to fight with a knife but wasn’t taught the legal ramifications of such techniques. As a result, he got into a fight with a bouncer in NY, stabbed him to death, and is now in prison for life. Had his instructor(s) done their due diligence, he’d probably be enjoying himself on the outside.
  2. We teach what we call “soft skills.” What are they? The bulk of self-defense. Read below for more information.

S.I.V.A.

S.I.V.A. is an acronym standing for Selection, Isolation, Verbal, and Attack. All crime begins with the selection of a victim (or car or house, etc). If you can learn how criminals pick their victims and learn how to avoid being chosen, that’s a soft skill. Isolation comes next. Criminals don’t like witnesses, so they wait on the periphery of crowds, and once they’ve selected their target, they follow them. Once they’re away from the safety of numbers, that is when they’ll attack. At this point, a verbal approach is often used to place the intended victim off guard. A classic being to ask you the time so you take your eyes off them to look at your watch or phone. Now you’ve been selected, isolated, distracted, and are ripe for the plucking.

How Do I Join

Soft Skills

Our soft skills training teaches you to avoid being selected, as well as situational awareness skills to recognize an impending attack. We also cover verbal de-escalation as used by hostage negotiators and recognition of pre-fight attack cues. We submit that if you can master those, you’ll probably never need to use your hard skills. Isn’t that the best way to win a fight? Sun Tzu thought so.

On top of that, we teach things like basic first aid, dealing with the law after an altercation, active shooter defense, anti-carjacking, and more. That’s the difference between learning how to fight and learning self-defense. Now you see why we claim to be the most complete form of Krav Maga in the world, and it’s what people like about us. We utilize the avoidance and awareness skills of the bodyguard to reduce the risk of having to fight.

A picture of the Chief Instructor picking up a client from a private jet while working as a bodyguard
Picking up a client from their private jet.

Instructors

Our instructors go through our in-house training program. Other organizations seem to think you can learn to teach by practicing techniques for four days until you drop from exhaustion. We teach public speaking skills, how to work a room, adult education, and motivation using performance psychology and NLP. In fact, one NC school teacher who went through the instructor’s program said he learned more in his first weekend than he did in 4 years getting his teaching degree!

Moral, Ethical Obligation

We have an ethical and moral obligation to teach self-defense. We aren’t in it for the money like so many schools seem to be, and that’s another huge difference between us. Every year, we do fundraisers for battered women shelters, Hope House, and organizations that exist to shut down human trafficking. We also believe that if everyone learned our system in our community, we wouldn’t have a significantly violent crime rate.

No Kids

There is a horrible trend in martial arts whereby someone figured out the target market is 8-year-old boys. They lock the parents in scary long contracts, they nickel and dime them to death, and they turn into daycare centers with after-school programs cleverly disguised as martial arts training.

If you’ve been put off by that, come and check us out. We’re an adult (and teen) only learning facility designed for professionals by professionals. Our Chief Instructor has spent his life dealing with non-consensual violence and is one of the very, very few instructors of this military art who’s actually served in the military.

As we’re fond of saying at Warriors Krav Maga, not all Krav Maga is created equal.

So come and check us out if you’re serious about learning self-defense. There’s a reason over 500 law enforcement agencies around the world have recognized Krav Maga as their go-to system. We will teach you faster and more effectively than anyone else on the planet how to defend yourself and your loved ones when nobody is around to do it for you.

Where Are We Located?

Our school is conveniently located near exit 25 off I-77 in NC. The address is 18339 – Unit i – Old Statesville Rd, Cornelius, NC 28031