Become a Certified Krav Maga Global Instructor With Krav Maga Auckland
A parallel path alongside your own training — one that sharpens your own skill, builds a different kind of confidence, and connects you to an international instructor network. Several North Shore members have already made the jump.
Teaching Sharpens You as Much as It Serves Your Students
Genuine satisfaction
Watching someone go from unsure to genuinely capable — and knowing you played a direct part in that.
Sharper skills through teaching
Explaining and demonstrating a technique clearly enough for someone else to learn it exposes gaps your own training alone never surfaces.
Confidence that reaches further
Leading a class and being responsible for someone else's learning builds confidence that carries into work and everyday life, well beyond the mats.
Instructing Runs Alongside Your Own Training, Not Instead of It
Reaching Practitioner 3 (P3) in the KMG curriculum, alongside at least two years of consistent training and a recommendation from a current KMG instructor, is the starting point for instructor consideration. That's not a separate career track disconnected from being a student — it's a natural extension for members who want to take their training further.
The full certification requirements are covered in detail on KMG New Zealand's instructor course page. Read on for what the training itself actually involves, and what it's looked like for members right here on the North Shore.
From North Shore Student to Certified Instructor
Four members who trained at this club, built up their skills and levels, and went on to complete the KMG General Instructor Course. Three now run clubs of their own.
Bertrand Van Den Plas
Trained at Krav Maga Auckland with a background in Shotokan Karate before completing the GIC in 2019. Taught under Instructor Aaron before opening his own school — now club owner at KMG West Auckland.
Stuart McGuire
Trained at Krav Maga Auckland before completing the GIC in 2019, alongside Bertrand, Ben, and Brad. Now instructs at KMG West Auckland.
Ben Van Heerden
Previously a North Shore student, completed the GIC in 2019, and now runs KMG Hastings / Hawke's Bay after completing his own instructor certification.
Brad
KMG Graduate Level 2, certified in 2019 on the same GIC as Bertrand, Stuart, and Ben. Started as a student here and still teaches alongside Instructor Aaron today.
An Amazing Experience — and a Genuine Challenge
The General Instructor Course (GIC) is widely regarded as the most comprehensive Krav Maga instructor certification in the world, delivered by KMG's own international instructor team — not a locally adapted version taught once removed from the source.
Qualified to teach beginners
Qualifies you to teach Practitioner 1 (P1) content — the beginner level of the curriculum. A diploma is awarded on completion, personally signed by Master Eyal Yanilov.
Teaching up to P3
Builds directly on Level 1, extending your teaching qualification up to and including Practitioner 3 (P3) content. Its own diploma follows on completion.
Full certification
Qualifies you to teach up to Practitioner 5 (P5), plus elements of the Graduate grades. A third diploma marks full KMG instructor certification, recognised at every KMG club worldwide.
Members receiving their Practitioner 1 grading diplomas at Krav Maga Auckland — the same diploma-on-completion culture continues right through to instructor certification.
Not just technique — how to teach it
The GIC doesn't just sharpen your own technical ability. A significant part of the course is dedicated to teaching methodology itself — how people actually learn, how to structure a class, how to read a room and adjust on the fly, health and safety in a training environment, and the judgement to teach different groups appropriately. It's built to produce instructors, not just highly skilled practitioners who happen to be in front of a class.
The same programme, everywhere
Every KMG instructor in the world — regardless of country — goes through the same General Instructor Course, set and maintained by Master Eyal Yanilov from KMG's international headquarters. That's what makes the certification mean something consistent: a KMG instructor in New Zealand has gone through the identical process as one in Israel, the UK, or anywhere else the system is taught. New Zealand candidates typically complete the course through KMG Australia, training directly with KMG's own instructor team.
Talk to Instructor Aaron, or See the Full Requirements
Applications go through KMG New Zealand, so the right first step depends on where you're at in your own training.