Hebrew (contact combat). An effective, easy-to-learn, battle tested, Israeli system of self defense & combat tactics trained in realistic scenarios with 'no rules' & muscle memory based instinctive techniques to eliminate or escape from the threat.
Avi Moyal was born in 1966 and has been learning Krav-Maga since childhood. In 1985 he received his "Expert degree" and joined the IDF Marines, completed his Officers training with excellence, and served as a Platoon Commander in a Terror Demolition Unit. He acquired many combat hours and experience while commanding subordinates on special operations in Lebanon. He served as a Reserves PC in a special operations unit.
Avi Moyal graduated his BA and a trainer's course. He also graduated the senior trainer's course in the Wingate Institute with excellence. He ran instructors courses in the Wingate institute for many years, and today he is one of the four leading Krav-Maga authorities in the world (Expert level 5). Amongst his instructors were Imi Lichtenfeld RIP, Eli Avigzar RIP and Eyal Yanilov. He instructs women, children and adults in the Israeli private, commercial and governmental sectors. He also instructs armies and security organizations world wide. These days, he has published a booklet about Krav-Maga for grade school pupils, which is one of his areas of expertise. It is distributed across Israel, and it will soon be translated and published abroad.
He is also the part of the IKMF Global Instructors team.
Special Projects:
In 1993 Avi served with a group of security personnel - that were assigned as the pop star Michael Jackson's personal bodyguards during his visit to Israel.
In 1994 he founded a VIP Protection unit for a private body in Brazil.
In 1995 he was assigned by the Israeli Prime Minister's Office to train its workers in Krav-Maga.
In 1996, after numerous homicides and attempted hijacking and robbery of taxi drivers in Israel, Avi Moyal was at the head of a project that instructed taxi drivers in self-defence and active "skid-car" handling. After the course, the numbers of attacks have depleted drastically.
1998 was an era of attacks by the infamous rapist - Beni Sella. Amongst his victims were tens of young Tel-Aviv women. Prior to his apprehension, Tel-Aviv City-Hall recruited Avi Moyal to lead a project that training the Tel-Aviv women in self-defence. The course was highly successful, and it taught hundreds of women to defend themselves from sexual assault using everyday items. At the end of that year, Beni Sella was caught, prosecuted and incarcerated.
During his work with Tel-Aviv City-Hall, after a few cases of violence, he ran a self-defence course for the city's parking inspectors. This course was considered a success.
Definition of Krav Maga
