Reviews

Alessio M.

12/21/2021

Not a good gym

This gym claims to be teaching Krav Maga but only teaches it for half an hour once a week out of the three training sessions he provides. The black belt he offers you after you have completed your 100 sessions (yeah that’s right he gives belts out based on how much you have payed and how many classes you attend) he gives you a black belt, but not in Krav Maga but in his made up freestyle martial art (with bits of other martial arts in it which makes it not a recognised martial art around the world) which he doesn’t tell you that when you start training there, leaving you to think your gonna get your black belt in Krav Maga, that way he can make money off you for something you didn’t even sign up/pay him for; and if you ask him about it and that you would just like a black belt in Krav Maga he will tell you that you need to attend at least 300 sessions until he gives you what you actually payed for, not to mention that some of his methods are outdated and that he refuses to update his system because it’s his way or nothing else. To get graded for each belt you have to just kick or punch a pad and get a specific number of power behind your kick/punch which is not how grading works, it’s based off skill of the actual martial art so in this case Krav Maga, therefore the grading should be based on disarming of knives, guns and basic self defence in a Krav Maga sense, hitting pads is not the main focus in Krav Maga. He is overly prized and his personal PT sessions cost $100 an hour, only top professionals like ex champions in national or world tournaments charge this much, which he isn’t one. If you then decide to leave the “academy” and go train at another Krav Maga facility (especially if it is one of his former instructors training) he will demean you and post negative stuff about you online via Facebook posts for attention calling them “mini rants” or freedom of speech, which is what a review is as well, which proves he can give but can’t take because he posts about you online for everyone to see after he’s blocked you on everything that way you cannot defend yourself, so in other words once you go to his gym you have to stay there forever. He also wastes time on a student of the month award for a plastic trophy just for turning up to every session in a month, that will be his main focus instead of teaching Krav Maga; he will criticise you for wanting to get a blackbelt certificate but is okay with you getting a plastic trophy just for participation. Another thing he does is constantly bombard you with messages pestering/asking if you will be coming to training that night, if you say no (even if you say you have work on) he will send upset emojis and go on about his motto “No Excuses”.