A group of Maltese Krav Maga practitioners have just finished their gradings which was supervised by the national director Keith Galea.

The students have been undergoing intensive training so to manage their grading together with international practitioners training under the WTKA, since new rules by the federation state that all schools have to complete grading within the same weekend internationally.

This has been the third session of up-level gradings to be held at the school since trainer and national director of KMM Keith Galea, opened the doors to Krav Maga on the island almost two years ago.

The following practitioners were successful:

Level 3 – Roman Repovas (Extra Star points for Dedication & Attendance), Luke Borg, Nathaniel Diacono,

Level 2 – Chris Agius, Donald Scerri

Level 1 – Michael Farrugia, Andre’ Gatt, Bjorn Demicoli, Hayden Cauchi, Dylan Fabri

Galea is very pleased that the interest in Krav Maga as an art of self defence has reflected the positive trend of other modern western countries. He says such growth in popularity is due to its practicality and application where students start perceiving the effectiveness of the system at very early stages as compared to other disciplines.

He also stresses out the importance of mentoring practitioners in adopting “street tactics” in their mentality and approach towards training, as this can at times be more important than applying punching and kicking tactics.

In reflection to this trend the school also announces that a project is in the pipeline to expand and improve its training facilities for practitioners, and as an organisation itself.