Malta team for Palermo championship this month

A group of Maltese Krav Maga students, trained by the national director Keith Galea, will be representing their local self-defence school at the Italian Street Self-Defence Championship, to be held in Palermo on June 26.

The Maltese team has been training specifically for this date these past few months as the championship will be their first outside Malta since the self-defence discipline reached our shores.

Maltese students will also compete in other events, namely, Kung Fu, Aikido and Judo among many others.

Krav Maga is a modern and practical style of self-defence. Its origins lie in military combat and are owed to Imi Sde-Or (Lichtenfeld), Israeli Grandmaster (1910-1998) who created it in the late 1940s when serving for the Israeli Defence Forces.

Since then Krav Maga has been studied, tested, improved and developed extensively so that today, techniques are applied in areas such as law enforcement, elite military units, VIP protection and civilian self defence programmes for men, women and children.