Forge Krav Maga San Francisco

How to throw a groin kick.
Coach Kimberly breaks down the aiming mechanic from our Level 1 Krav Maga curriculum: wherever your knee points, your kick goes. Point the knee at the target, extend the foot. Groin, chest, knee. Same mechanic, different elevation. The rest is distance and range management.
The groin kick is one of the first techniques we teach at Forge because it works. Simple mechanics, high-value target, and a principle that carries into every other kick you’ll learn.
Intro Krav Maga classes run seven days a week in San Francisco. Two trial classes for $30.

Pekiti Tirsia Kali is the weapons layer at Forge. Edged and impact weapons, built on footwork, angles, and power generation that carry into our self-defense program.
Forge runs the only PTTA-certified Pekiti Tirsia Kali program in San Francisco, with training drawn directly from the Pekiti University curriculum. Like kickboxing and BJJ, our Kali class is included in every Forge membership at no extra cost.
Classes every Sunday at 11am. All levels, genders, and backgrounds welcome. No experience needed.
Learn more: forgekravmaga.com/pekiti-tirsia-kali-san-francisco
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21 women. One Saturday. Real self-defense skills in San Francisco.
Coach Sydney ran our quarterly August Women’s Self-Defense Workshop and packed the room with fundamentals that hold up under pressure: how to strike with your whole body, how to break a grip on your wrist or your clothing, and how to fall without getting hurt.
No abstract theory. No fear-based lectures. Just a room full of women hitting pads, working with partners, and figuring out what they can actually do.
This is how self-defense training should feel. Serious about skill development, easy on the ego.
Women’s self-defense workshops in San Francisco run every quarter at Forge. Follow along for the next date.
Want to keep building now? We offer an introduction to Krav Maga class seven days a week at Forge. Two classes for $30. All levels, all ages, all backgrounds welcome.

Warm-up. Level one. Full room.

Self-defense training at Forge is physical. Before you learn how to strike or escape a grab, you build the conditioning to do it when you’re tired.

Look closely and you’ll see first-timers on their trial next to students who have been training for years. We treat level one as the foundation, not the starter class, and our senior students keep coming back to it.

Krav Maga is our self-defense foundation. It’s the fundamentals everything else is built on. From there, Dutch kickboxing and boxing sharpen your striking, BJJ teaches you what to do if a fight ends up on the ground, and Pekiti Tirsia Kali covers weapons.

One membership includes everything. Take as many classes as you want, across every program, with no upgrade or add-on fees.

Intro classes run seven days a week. Try two for $30.

Coach Xavier on mitt work: fight the whole person.
The pads are not the target. They signal possible targets on the person holding them. When your eyes chase the mitt, you slow your own attack down and shrink your view of everything else that’s coming.
At Forge, we suggest keeping your eyes on the triangle of the chest: collarbone down to the sternum. From there, your peripheral vision picks up both hands, both feet, and the hips before they move. You won’t fall for trickery, and your hands learn to find the target on their own.
Dutch Kickboxing at Forge with Coach Xavier. Tuesdays 6pm, Fridays 12pm, Saturdays 9am. Included in every Forge membership at no additional cost. All levels welcome.

We love it when our alumni come back to visit. Great to see you! ♥️

Working the false lead this week in advanced Krav Maga.
I borrowed heavily from two sources: Jared Wihongi TRICOM Training section at the Pekiti Tirsia Tactical Association North America Confernece in Montreal this month, focused on law enforcement and self-defense options, and his Pekiti Boxing module on . His experience speaks for itself.
We covered the stance itself, what it’s actually for: entries, striking combinations, and basic controls.
The false lead earns its place. It’s deceptive. It gives you safer entries to the dead side. And it keeps whatever you carry on your hip, knife or firearm, on the far side from the person in front of you.
What we didn’t get to in Saturday’s class: the stick/baton versions of the same material. Another day:)
Advanced Krav Maga at Forge draws on Kali, kickboxing, and grappling. Good systems and experienced practitioners don’t just manage the overlap. They get better because of it.
Combatives

Coach Evandro breaks down an arm drag to takedown.
From the clinch, push the arm across. Drop your head to pin the arm. Lift the near leg, block the far knee, and shuffle step through to the takedown.
The drag doesn’t win the position. It buys you the angle, and the takedown is what you do with it.
Forge BJJ Fundamentals. Wednesdays at 6pm. Open Mat Grappling Saturdays at 8am. Both included in your Forge membership.

Start from the 50/50 clinch. Pinch the elbow so he can’t frame off you. Drop your weight, walk forward, and take the mount.
None of that is strength. It’s position, pressure, and knowing where your weight belongs.
BJJ at Forge is included with your membership. No-Gi Wednesdays at 6pm with Coach Evandro of Romulo Melo BJJ, plus open mat on Saturdays. It isn’t a separate track from what you’re already doing. Grappling makes your self-defense better, because close range is where most of it actually happens.
All levels welcome.
SFWorkout

Coach Sydney’s Women’s Self-Defense Workshop is this Saturday, August 22, 1-5pm at Forge in Hayes Valley.
No experience needed. You don’t need to be fit, you don’t need to have trained before, and you don’t need to know anything about martial arts. No sparring required. That’s the point of a workshop like this one.
Four hours with one of our senior coaches, in a room full of people starting exactly where you are.
We keep these small so everyone gets real reps and real coaching. Five spots left, and registration closes Friday at 9pm.
539 Gough St, San Francisco.