Alan is the Founder, Owner and Chief Instructor of 360 Krav Maga.
• Krav Maga Expert • Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Leo Vieira and Checkmat HQ • Ruas Vale Tudo Black Belt *Kru in Muay Thai • Kudo Black Belt • Served in a special unit of the Italian Airborne • Was introduced to Krav Maga in 1995 in Israel • Joined the US Army in 1996; Was in the 82nd Airborne • Attended the Krav Maga Instructor Course under Haim Zut in 2001 • Started teaching at the Krav Maga Worldwide HQ in 2003, where he led regular classes as well as Train the Trainer classes for both civilians and Law Enforcement. • In 2003 he also started teaching in Long Beach, CA and opened 360 Krav Maga Academy. • Trained with Eyal Yanilov, successor of Imi Lichtenfeld - Founder of Krav Maga. • Was appointed Director of International Krav Maga Federation North America and then Director of Krav Maga Global North America Instagram: @360alan
My favorite Brazilian fighter of all-time. The prototype MMA fighter with 6 black belts in 6 different martial arts including Brazilian Jiu_jitsu and Luta Livre. My dream fight for the early UFCs would have been between Ruas vs. Don Frye.
Lol ruas knocked out a dude twice his size with leg kicks and to this day people cross train like he did in the 80s and 90s before anyone even knew what "mma" was
Marcos Ruas, for me he was a real Badass from Rio de Janeiro and Brasil 🇧🇷 as well. Imagine if he could have come to America 🇺🇸 when he was in his 20 years old? Rickson Gracie always avoid him
The Gracies always had respect for Master Marco Ruas, but Helio’s vision was to fight JiuJitsu against other Martial Arts, what culminated in UFC1. Master Marco himself recounts once Master Hélio told him, while trying to set up an event to fight him and Master Rickson, said “you don’t fool me, you’re a Jiu-jítsu fighter”
we've seen martial artists from judo, karate, bjj and they go to fight in mma. why haven't we seen kravmaga in the mma yet? is it too lethal? like in the movies breaking necks? 😂🤣
Krav Maga is mixed martial arts. Imi, the founder, was a boxer and wrestler. Regardless, we need to know how to kick, punch, elbow/knee/headbutt and grapple. The "techniques" are useless unless we attach them to great fighting skills.
with this exercise we just have students finish with kicks. that tells the partner they can go. We have other drills that use more kicks and less punches
