Eyal Yanilov

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Eyal Yanilov
Nationality	Israeli
Style	Krav Maga
Teacher(s)	Imi Lichtenfeld, Eli Avickzar
Rank	Master Level 3 / Expert Level 8 in Krav Maga

Eyal Yanilov (born 30 May 1959) is an Israeli Krav Maga instructor and currently Chief Instructor of Krav Maga Global.^[1] He was a co-founder and Chief Instructor of the International Krav Maga Federation from 1996 to 2010.

Biography

Eyal Yanilov was born in 1959. He is a graduate of the School for Trainers and Instructors at the Wingate Institute for Sport and Physical Education and holds a degree in electrical engineering. He studied with the founder of Krav Maga, Imi Lichtenfeld Sde-Or beginning in 1974. He is the only person who jointly holds the highest level granted by Imi Lichtenfeld, Master level 3/8th Dan white and red belt and the Founder's Diploma of Excellence. Darren Levine also holds the Founder's Diploma of Excellence.^[2] In 1981 Yanilov directed the first Krav Maga training seminar outside Israel and has brought Krav Maga to about 50 countries. He is the co-author of Krav Maga: How to Defend Yourself Against Armed Assault, written with Sde-Or. From 1984 until Sde Or's death in January 1998, Yanilov and Sde Or worked together to compile a comprehensive manual on the principles of Krav Maga and its various techniques.

Until 2010, Yanilov served as head of the Professional Committee of the Israeli Krav Maga Association, established and served as the Chairman and Chief Instructor of the IKMF. He now heads the KMG - Krav Maga Global. Since the early 1980s, he has trained all the first generations of instructors in the United States, Europe, Latin America, South East Asia and Australia. He was featured on an episode of Human Weapon, where he demonstrated disarming techniques of Krav Maga. In 2010 Eyal founded MaxKravMaga.com - an online Krav Maga training program where members can learn Krav Maga directly from Eyal via streaming video.

Published works

Sde-Or, Imi and Yanilov, Eyal. Krav Maga: How to Defend Yourself Against Armed Assault. New York: North Atlantic Books (2001). ISBN 1-58394-008-1

References

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 55090574 LCCN: n99042545 ISNI: 0000 0000 5541 974X GND: 124815847 NDL: 00858236

Persondata
Name	Yanilov, Eyal
Alternative names
Short description	Krav Maga instructor
Date of birth	1959
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