Instructors

KMSD Instructor Team

San Diego’s most experienced and talented Krav Maga Instructor Team. All KMSD Instructors, Assistant Instructors, and Assistants-in-Training are required to be CPR certified, and have CDC “Heads Up” Concussion Awareness Training.
Learn more about your Instructors by clicking their images below.

DANA BEN KAPLAN
LEAD INSTRUCTOR

PAM SONTZ
INSTRUCTOR

INSTRUCTOR C
INSTRUCTOR

At KMSD, we’ve been innovating Krav Maga under the same leadership for over 31 years. If you do plan to visit elsewhere, see us last. Our KMSD Instructor Certification Course (ICC) and KMSD Assistant Instructor Certification Course (AICC) take place over a period of many months, not a several-days-crash-course, and involve aspects which are absent other krav maga instructor training classes – “we have learned from others what NOT to do.” These two types of Instructor Training Courses include something critical, which no other Krav Maga training program has: a significant amount of the Instructor training with supervised teaching in front of full, actual Krav Maga classes. It’s simply the highest caliber, most comprehensive Krav Maga Instructor Certification Course anywhere in the Krav Maga world. All KMSD Instructors* are required to be CPR and AED certified, and Concussion Awareness certified through the CDC Heads Up program. “It’s all about the Instructor”; a common truism to keep in mind when you’re looking for a place to train in almost anything, anywhere.

“There is no substitute for experience”. This statement carries over to most things in life.