Best Self-defence Classes Johannesburg Near Me

4worldlovers: Tired of the same old lame "trust falls" and karaoke sessions?


We specialize in facilitating team building events that are unique, hugely entertaining, and add real value to your year end get-together, team conference, or wellness day.


We cater for groups of 20 upward, and we guarantee that you won't find anything quite like this anywhere else!


One of the best ways to learn Krav Maga is to join a club or training group. The benefits are far greater than learning practical, powerful self defense techniques. There's a sense of camaraderie, pride in achieving realistic goals, and becoming part of a tribe of likeminded people who freely share their knowledge and energy with you.


Elite Defence Academy International provides training to companies, institutions, and community groups of all sizes. Our workshops and seminars go far beyond self defense, though. We also delve into performance psychology, how to overcome personal barriers, and reducing stress while enhancing team cohesion and communication.


If you can't get to a club or attend a seminar, you can take advantage of our detailed, step-by-step training videos.


They're available right here, and we're constantly updating and adding to our premier collection of self defence training videos.


Personal safety and practical self defence is a valuable life skill.


Elite Defence Academy offers self defence workshops for schools, designed to teach age-appropriate techniques to children and teens.


The first skills we teach? Awareness, avoidance, and self discipline. From practical self defense to anti-abduction courses, our training is safe and professional.

Elite Defence Academy International facilitates teambuilding events that range from short workshops to full-day events.

Our team of professional trainers offer structured teambuilding events that excite, entertain, and foster amazing team cohesion.

Greatitude is a multidisciplinary range of corporate workshops that have nothing to do with punching and kicking.

Here, we're talking about mindset, creative self-development, deep inner work, and powerful tools that produce meaningful lifelong growth.

Greatitude training fosters mindfulness, gratitude, inner peace, creative expression, and inspiration.

Our defensive training for ambulance crews, EMTs, and other response personnel includes skills like scene safety, dealing with hostile subjects, and managing criminal intrusion threats.

The training provides first responders with valuable life-saving skills and strategies for potentially hazardous scenarios.

Elite Defence Academy International provides CAA and ICAO - aligned training for cabin crews and ground personnel in all aviation environments.

From dealing safely with unruly passengers to responding appropriately to more serious threats, we equip your crews with skills and strategies that foster greater safety for your passengers - in the air and on the ground.

If you ever have to face a criminal threat, you shouldn't be empty-handed.

It makes sense to equip yourself - and there are plenty of powerful, intelligent tools to help you stay safe and protect your loved ones.

Practical personal safety tools are like insurance: it's better to have and not need it, than need it and not have it.

Go ahead and browse our collection - and ensure your safety.

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IDefend is the supremely effective and constantly evolving Israeli Self Defence system – known for its simplicity, ease of learning, and devastating power. Krav Maga is used worldwide by men and women from all walks of life, as well as Special and other Military units and Law Enforcement agencies. IDEFEND which is based on Krav Maga is for you.

A basic principle of self defence, first and foremost, is to protect oneself. When confronted by a violent attack, the main objective is to avoid getting hurt. A defensive stand will not convince the attacker to stop, and so, the response should be aggressive to neutralise the threat

Countless parents send their kids to martial arts programs, such as IDefend Kids is an exceptional class which equips children with confidence, concentration, respect and self-control. This section is designed to maximize what your child will gain from Krav Maga martial arts training by educating you to be a super martial arts parent.

We aim at empowering your staff by helping them to become stronger mentally as well as physically. Wheather they use private or public transport, they will be able to be in control of any situation they may be faced with.

IDefend aims at empowering primary school Children, High Schools, Collages and Universities. Our track record speaks for itself and being able to uplift and sharpen the future minds of our country gives us great joy and satisfaction.

We offer Anti-Hijacking Seminars where physical interaction. Anti-Hijacking Seminars where physical interaction with the attacker is unavoidable. A special Rifles & Shotgun weapons disarm Seminar is available on request

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We proudly offer the best in Dynamic Martial Arts, Fitness based Cardio Kickboxing (Fitness boxing also including martial arts techniques) & Self Defence courses since 2005.


Beginners are always welcome to try out no matter what the fitness level.

At MTG Fighting Fit Central is on cultivating an environment where each individuals goals can be acheived. Our aim is to improve lives in and out of the martial arts, through the intensive training of MTG's Fighting Fit Centrals Martial Arts, fitness and defence programmes. Its about providing the platform to live your best life with confidence and health.

Master Norman has been teaching Taekwon-Do since 1997 with Magua Taekwon-Do being established in 2001 and is currently the highest ranked in the organisation TSA (Taekwon-Do South Africa). Cardio Martial Arts/Kickboxing being taught since 2001 and officially at FFC in 2005 (making our club one of the first to do this in SA and one of most experienced in SA)


MTG Martial Arts Taekwon-Do is the only club in the country directly connected to the original Founder of Taekwon-Do’s Son, Grand Master Choi Jung Hwa, (known as military Taekwon-Do, as that is where it was first developed), therefore being the closest to the source of this diverse and impressive martial art.


Authentic Taekwon-Do is also the most modern of the traditional martial arts! Steeped in ancient asian martial arts techniques as well as western influenced techniques. All evolved and tweaked to be based on modern biomechnics and scientific principles which aims to build techniques which are efficient, powerful & also safer on ones joints/body.

Our Martial arts classes are for all ages and not only reserved for the young and fit. Our classes suite all capabilities and we proudly have older members aswell. Authentic Taekwon-Do also is about much more than only kicking! While Tkd is known for its kicks, because they grab alot of attention, the entire body is used as a tool for self defence.

Taekwon-Do (styles as a whole) is the most popular and widespread martial art on the planet. Our ITF organisation is one of the widest spread martial arts organisations in the world in its own right.

Yes, it is a serious martial art, but great fun as well!

If you would like to start a genuine martial arts journey or get yourself Fighting Fit.