FRAUDES DEL KRAV MAGA

"Dear Srs.

I will present myself in the end. maybe you know me and maybe you don´t.
anyway it will be very easy to find out about me.

I saw in your site that you started a petition against Darren Levine and its
written there that he came at 1981 to train six weeks with Imi. well,
correction: darren came only for two weeks, and he didn´t trained with Imi.
he trained with Eli Avigzar (RIP) and with me, Untill we found out that all
he wanted was a black belt in krav-maga which in the end he paid to Imi
US$15,000 for it , and with this money Imi established his association of
krav-maga. in the end he never realy learned krav-maga. and if I may add, I
don´t know who you are, but beleive me darren is only half of the problem.

All the best"

Grand Master (9th Dan) Yaron Lichtenstein

"This is the main problem that everyone has with Krav Maga America. The guy running it is darrin Levine he is an american guy who went to Israel with no martial art experiance, it is said he did box a bit. Well he went to Israel and spend no more than 2 weeks during his visit in 3 visits to Israel with no more than 6 weeks of training he purchased his BB from the system founder. he came back here to the US and proceeded to start KM America, but his company did not take off much until the founder of Km died, when the founder died he proceeded to trdemark the name Krav Maga and exclude the same people that help create it and taught it in Israel, when they came to the USA they were threatened with lawsuits that if they taught KM here in the US they would be sued not inless they pay him 500 a month in fee's to allow then to teach and go through his certification program that costs 5000 dollars.he also claims that the system head Imi gave him the right to trademark it here in the US, but everyone's argment is why didn't you do it when he was alive, but instead waited for him to die to trademark it.

There are alot of people that are disputing his trademark, they are winning so far because they had the trademark suspended and now is in a court battle to make sure he does not get the trademark rights, he is also trying to trademark it in Israel, Asia, hasit in canada, and now Europe."