Reality Based Self-Defense and Fitness

About:

In CKM, you will learn:

• How to defeat all attackers, including attackers armed with guns, knives, clubs, bottles, bats, etc.

• How to control or debilitate your opponent immediately, irrespective of their size or martial arts background.

• How to execute crucial and straightforward moves to save your life.

• How to become a devastating hand-to-hand combat expert!

• How to cover all aspects of real hand-to-hand combat and weapons training.

• The techniques taught to the most elite commando units and SWAT forces in Israel and around the world!

Guaranteed easy to learn reality based training such as:

Gun Disarming, Blade Attack Defenses, Violent Strangles, Ground Survival, Control, Fast and Brutal Striking Scenarios, Pressure Points, Violent Headlocks, Baseball Bat, Clinch Defenses, Surprise Attacks, Edge Weapons, Escapes from Vicious Street-Holds, Improvised Weapons, Crime and Terrorism Survival Skills, Grappling and Striking Techniques, Commando Training Tips, and much more!

CKM techniques are simple yet highly effective! 

In the words of Moni Aizik:  "Simplicity is genius!”  Israeli fighting systems have been successfully used for decades by Israeli Special Forces, FBI SWAT, U.S. Marshals, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Military, high profile bodyguards, counter-terrorism police units, and SWAT and military units from around the world.  

Despite the no nonsense reputation of CKM, the system also has, at its core, basic tenets to help guide individuals throughout their daily living.  The same way CKM's country of origin has had to overcome severe limitations and weaknesses in order to survive.  CKM helps empower individuals with the requisite mental and emotional tools, in addition to the obvious technical and physical ones, to help one properly navigate through life’s difficulties.  CKM students are taught to go beyond their physical limitations and explore a side of their consciousness they are not use to confronting. 
 
It is in this way the system helps us deal with the many challenges one may encounter day to day.  Fundamental to this idea is the awareness of one’s limitations and strengths.  The consciousness of those limitations makes us humble as individuals, another major value inherent to the system.  The overcoming of those limitations creates confidence and an indomitable spirit when facing future obstacles.  The constant emphasis on pushing forward no matter the odds reflects a can do attitude and one of continuous improvement. 

The training for CKM places particular emphasis on a positive state of mind as an approach to everything in life.  The attitude is not "everything good or bad happens for a reason"; but, to quote Moni Aizik, “When nothing is for sure, everything is possible!”  This philosophy helps develop survivors on the battlefield, champions in the ring, and winners in life!  In order to be a winner, you have to think like a winner! 

You have to have a positive outlook and never, ever give up.  Irrespective of the outcome of life’s challenges, it is from this constant struggle of facing obstacles character and confidence are developed.  Not a shell existing to impress others; but, true inner strength coming from a well defined and well developed sense of self. 

One way of exercising this inner strength is by participating in a daily workout, physical or mental, challenging the individual psyche.  One should strive to partake in as rigorous a mental or physical training regime one can and in so doing continually develop character at any age in life.  The abuse of any substances is to be avoided and the enjoying of life’s pleasures done so in moderation.

This approach to life is very much a balanced path, easy to veer from, and takes time to completely internalize and master.  However, consistent and diligent training, facilitates the development of the required skills on this journey to self-mastery.

Philsosphy:

The Philosophy of CKM can be broken down into three main dimensions.

1.  Ethical
2.  Pragmatic
3.  Dynamic

Ethical:

In CKM, the intention in any conflict situation is to find a honorable path towards a peaceful resolution.  CKM abhors fighting.  Violence is the absolute last resort.  CKM always gives the aggressor a chance to save face, an honorable solution as a way out without ever compromising its own sense of self esteem.  The body says, “I don’t want to fight.”  The eyes say, “watch out.”

Many times, a fight is all about somebody’s ego, either ours or theirs.  CKM knows fighting is mostly avoidable and as such its practitioners do best to deescalate any situation which could turn violent.  Every practitioner of CKM seeks to dissolve his own individual ego through intense training and introspection. 

CKM techniques are potentially lethal, therefore, CKM insists it's practitioners respect every human being.  Therefore, the first fundamental CKM principle is:  No first use of force.
 
Pragmatic:

The second principle of CKM is:  While negotiating for peace, prepare for war.  CKM evolved in the hostile environment of the Middle East.  So, CKM intrinsically is a mature and pragmatic body of knowledge.  Though every CKM practitioner does his best to deescalate the conflict, CKM is not oblivious to the fact there are many unintelligent people out there who might mistake a desire for peace as weakness.

So, even as CKM tries to negotiate an honorable peace with the aggressor, the CKM practitioner instantly begins to prepare for combat.  The CKM starting stance for instance conceals far more than it reveals.  If there is going to be any kind of fighting, the opponent will know nothing about what the CKM practitioner knows. This allows CKM to launch the most devastating counter attacks from what looks like an innocuous position. 

CKM practitioners are taught to loudly announce their intentions of not wanting to fight.  This further ensures, if law enforcement authorities intervene, they will have witnesses to show the CKM practitioner did not want to fight and whatever happened subsequently was the result of the aggression of the aggressor.  Fighting in self defense is legally okay in most countries.  Aggression and the use of excessive force is not. 

Dynamic:

Static systems claiming to know all the answers are obviously highly suspect.  All bodies of knowledge must keep evolving to keep pace with new inputs or else they become outdated.  CKM is no different.  CKM knows criminals and terrorists continuously keep changing their tactics.  Therefore, CKM keeps evolving to keep pace with the new tactics and weapons of the enemy.  It is totally dynamic.  

Combat in the streets is totally unpredictable.  There are no rules. There is no referee who will stop the fight, or throw in the towel.  There is no honor code.  Treacherous behavior abounds.  The attacker might pull a gun, a knife, or have friends lurking not to far away.  It may be two on one or more than two on one.  Such people are capable of stooping to any sub-human extent. 

The CKM solution:  Think like a Commando.  Engage and rapidly disengage.  Engage the enemy only if there is no other choice; but, if you must then finish him off immediately.  Then, rapidly disengage before his friends come to his rescue.  The goal is simple.  Survival!  This is the reality of the street, not of the dojo.

Because Moni Aizik and his senior instructors are actively involved with teaching, CKM keeps evolving spurred by the demands of one of the fiercest fighting environments in the world; the Middle East.

The third CKM principle is:  In the street there are no rules.  Train real!