AMK Martial Arts & Krav Maga

23/09/2026

Really pleased to be working with Canterbury BID and City Watch to deliver practical self-defence and personal safety training for people working in our city centre.

These sessions are all about giving people simple, realistic skills they can actually use: building confidence, awareness and the ability to deal with situations if things ever go wrong.

We had a great group in for the first session and we’re back again tomorrow at 11am.

If you work for a Canterbury BID business, it’s completely FREE to attend and there are still spaces available.

Free Self Defence Class This Thursday! Canterbury BID members are invited to join our City Watch Business Self Defence Session on Thursday 24 September at 11am.
✅ Learn practical safety techniques
✅ Increase your confidence
✅ Meet other local businesses
✅ Completely FREE to attend
Reserve your space now:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-city-watch-business-self-defence-classes-tickets-1994931662304

16/09/2026

In our beginners /fundamentals class we were working on problems on the ground, somewhere we rarely want to be! Want to get involved? Book a free trial on our website - link in bio

12/09/2026

3 years 💪🏻👊🏻🙏🏻

12/09/2026

Today marks… 3 YEARS OF AMK KRAV MAGA

Three years ago today, we opened the doors to AMK and taught our very first class.

It feels genuinely mad looking back at where we started compared to where we are now.

Today, we have 2 training centres and over 170 members, ranging from just 3 years old to over 70, training across our programmes and becoming part of the AMK community.

And what a three years it has been!

We’ve hosted seminars with .maga.israel and and welcomed incredible guest instructors, run gradings, workshops and specialist training, pushed ourselves through a 24-hour Krav Maga marathon, opened our second training centre in Medway, and most recently held our first AMK Summer Camp.

But the thing we’re most proud of isn’t the numbers, the buildings or the events.

It’s the community we’ve built.

The friendships.
The confidence people have gained.
The people who walked through the door nervous and are now helping the next new person feel welcome.
The kids growing up on our mats.
The adults pushing themselves to do things they never thought they could do.

AMK has become so much more than gemma and I imagined when we opened those doors three years ago.

To every member, parent, instructor, supporter and friend who has been part of the journey so far: we thank you.

You’ve helped build this.

And the exciting thing?

We’re just getting started!

Happy 3rd Birthday, AMK. 🖤❤️

Ability. Mindset. Knowledge.

10/09/2026

Canterburys Thursday night crew 💪🏻👊🏻 smashed it tonight! This is what we love about training: people from all different walks of life, different ages, nationalities, races, backgrounds all coming together to lift each other up, strengthen each other, fortify each other 💪🏻🙏🏻 there’s no better medicine to life’s problems than a dose of Krav Maga!

02/09/2026

Back to school photos are a lovely tradition, but before you post, take a second look at what else the picture might be giving away.

Self defence isn’t just about what happens when things get physical. It’s also about awareness, prevention and protecting information about you and your family.

A single photo can sometimes reveal far more than you realise…

• Your child’s name
• Their school or uniform
• Their year group
• Your street or house number
• Your car registration
• Regular routines and timings
• Where you live or travel from

None of this means you shouldn’t share those proud moments. Just check the background, crop or blur anything identifiable, and think about what a stranger could learn from the picture.

Enjoy the moment. Share the memories. Protect the details.

01/09/2026

“Our objective is to change the attacker’s mind.”

Someone has chosen you as their target. Your job is to make them very quickly reconsider that decision.

That’s why good quality striking matters so much in self-defence.

You can know every technique in the book, but if your strikes have no power, no intent and no ability to disrupt the attacker, that technique may not be enough when it really matters.

This session was all about striking and moving. Hitting effectively, creating space, changing angles and staying difficult to deal with.

Krav Maga isn’t about standing still and trading punches. It’s about creating an opportunity to get yourself safe.

Want to learn practical self-defence that works under pressure?

📍 Canterbury & Medway
🥊 Adults, teens and kids
👉 Message us to book a FREE trial class.

30/08/2026

Training for the situations you hope never happen. 👊

In this recent session we were working on defending against attacks with a bat style weapon. From different angles, different directions and learning how to react when something is coming at you fast.

That’s what Krav Maga is about.

Not learning flashy proscribed routines. Not memorising techniques just to pass a grading. It’s about developing practical self defence skills, confidence under pressure and the ability to keep going when things get messy.

You don’t need to be fit to start.
You don’t need any experience.
You just need to turn up.

Want to see what Krav Maga is actually like?

🥊 Adults, teens and kids
📍 Canterbury & Medway
👉 Message us to book a FREE trial class.

24/08/2026

Saw this today and it’s a tragic reminder that every action has consequences.

A single punch can change two lives forever.

Sometimes the punch itself causes the injury, but often the person falls, strikes their head on the ground and suffers a fatal brain injury. What might have been intended as “just one punch” can have consequences nobody can take back.

That is one of the reasons I take the responsibility of teaching self defence so seriously.

We train people to protect themselves when they genuinely need to, but we also teach that our response must be necessary, reasonable and proportionate to the threat we are facing.

Learning how to strike, defend yourself and fight does not give you permission to use those skills because someone has annoyed you, insulted you or challenged your ego.

In fact, the more capable you become, the greater your responsibility to exercise judgement and restraint.

There is no room for ego on our mats!

We want our students to have the skills and confidence to protect themselves and others, but equally, the awareness to recognise when they do not need to fight.

Walk away when you can.

De-escalate when you can.

Fight when you genuinely have to.

And understand that once you throw that punch, you cannot always control what happens next.