Krav Maga was founded on principles and natural responses, findings of the true street fights.
The teaching format was revolutionary at its’ time, 50 some years ago, however, the usual training today is very mechanical and technique-orientated, even clinical, not including the natural reactions such as head/body moving away from the danger, hands going towards the danger. It started looking like this some 20 years ago when the lists of techniques, not the situations, started to explode.
Now in the krav maga world there is plenty of instructor training available and even some coaching training.
However almost all of them lack the pedagogic theory. I have completed quite a few and all of them have been about techniques and about the teaching structure. Not very much about the learner. I know it is not interesting but if teaching is something I choose to do, I must know and understand the fundamental learning theories and how to apply them in training.
At the kravmagacoach.com we have taken upthe task to build exercises by which we can make training the “zero distance solutions” as close to reality as safely and resourcefully (training locations etc.) possible. This is called representative practice design.
We started this exploration in 2015 when we started building the first version of the curriculum of the Finnish Krav Maga Federation. The key questions being what to teach and how to teach. Remaining the legacy of krav maga but critically looking into in what situation, mental state of mind and body stance, the techniques emerge naturally. We found out that practically all krav maga techniques do emerge naturally through direct perception-action coupling (aka natural reaction).
The only issue was that most of them are trained from a totally wrong starting positions and the initial response from those positions lead to totally different solutions (techniques). Going against the principles of straightest way is the best way, closest weapon-closest target, no wasted movement (aka don’t do a defense without attacking at the same time). But once you put the stances and the state of mind to another “position” the techniques come out like magic, automatically, without remembering. This led us to change the pedagogic backbone from the information processing theory to the ecological dynamics. Making it alive from the first minute you train. The movements will become more efficient when you practice enough.
The key thing a coach must do is to create the training situation so that the trainees can truly try out different solutions and then guide them to find the best one by using the constraints-led approach (CLA)

We have laid the table ready for all coaches to explore. You can start the course for free and then there is the level you need to decide whether to pursuit this for more. (Link to course ) https://tommi-nystrom.mykajabi.com/offers/SQHezNLe