Impact Krav Maga Self-Defense is the only San Diego County school affiliated with Krav Maga Global, the Israeli federation headed by Eyal Yanilov that certifies every instructor on the Robinson Avenue training floor. Classes teach the official hand-to-hand combat system of the Israeli Defense Forces, covering weapons defenses, ground fighting, and multi-attacker drills rather than the barbell-and-conditioning scope of gym environments such as Hillcrest Kettlebells. A founding partner of the school holds Expert 2 rank from Israel — the first woman from the United States to earn that level — and runs the women-only self-defense curriculum for civilian students. Dedicated Strike Lab and Fight Lab blocks isolate striking combinations and higher-contact defensive sparring, the repetitive impact load that sends students to manual-therapy providers at Nexus Physical Therapy for wrist, shoulder, and hip maintenance. Kids and teens programs, women-only courses, and adult coed classes all run the same KMG curriculum scaled to age and experience, with instructors tested annually to maintain active KMG certification under the North American director. The full adult syllabus covers knife, stick, and firearm disarms in both standing and ground positions, the highest-risk techniques in Krav Maga and the reason KMG affiliates are tested directly within the head instructor's lineage.