Pylon Sign: The pylon sign standing high above Crossroads Ave.The day we’ve been waiting for is finally here. With great pride we announce that the new location is now open for business!

Now you can train in the BIGGEST KRAV MAGA TRAINING CENTER THERE IS. Over 20,000 SF of space for you to become a finely honed Krav Maga fighter. Come get your Krav Maga on!

UPDATE:
We’ve just posted some photos from the first classes at the new training center. Check them out in the new location photo gallery.

Whew! The new training center is almost ready.

We'll be closed this Friday and Saturday to relocate our equipment and to put the finishing touches on the new place.

And then . . . we'll see you at the new location (located on Crossroads Boulevard--immediately south of Crossroads Mall) on Monday, December 29!

The address of the new training center is 100 Crossroads Blvd.

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Coming soon: Exterior shot of the new Krav Maga Regional Fitness Center locationWatch this space for an announcement about the MASSIVELY HUGE new Krav Maga Regional Fitness Center that is now under construction here in San Antonio.

In the mean time, you can get a sneak peek at the new location photo gallery

(And for you architectural types, the file attached to this post contains the new location’s floor plan in PDF format.)

Hello website visitor. Richard the website guy here. I’m posting this “field report” because some big changes are in the works that you might like to know about.

And I do mean big changes. More on this later.

You may have noticed that Pete has been a bit distracted lately. He’s had “that look” in his eyes. He hasn’t been at the center quite as much as he used to be. This past Friday afternoon I finally got to see what he’s been up to. It’s about time somebody spilled the beans—and put people on alert to keep Pete under observation.

Pete had mentioned before that he was intending to move the Krav Maga Regional Self-Defense and Fitness Center. That’s true. In mid-Januaray Pete’s going to move the center to a new location right beside Crossroads Mall.

Pete asked me to stop by the site of the new place and put something up about it on the website. I heard he was going to do build a bigger place this time—that he was going to raise the bar. Fair enough. I got my camera and met at the end of last week.

As I drove over there I thought I would be just posting a little blurb about the new location with a photo or two. But no. Having seen the new location, it is a BIG story and it is my journalistic duty to tell you the full story. There’s more to tell than just a “new location” story. I’ll tell you about the new fitness center alright—but as I do I think it will become clear to what the story behind the story is . . . that Pete has finally lost his mind.

Maybe it was to be expected. I mean, Pete’s done his fair share of sparring in his time and I guess it was only a matter of time that someone got in a lucky shot and rung his bell but good.

You think I’m imagining things? Well let me lay out the case for this verdict . . .

The current Fitness Center is over 8,000 square feet. Friend, 8,000 SF of dojo is a lot of dojo. That’s huge. Have you ever seen any other martial arts training center that even comes close to the existing facility? I’ve seen a few in my time, and a dojo that’s one-fourth the size of the existing fitness center would be considered massive.

It would be crazy for someone to open a martial arts training center bigger than 8,000 feet. Well, apparently that’s not big enough for Pete. He has now gone beyond crazy. Beyond sane. He is in the realm of of cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs nuts. He is about to launch a Krav Maga Fitness Center that is over 20,000 square feet.

More than 20KSF. Twenty. Thousand. Square. Feet.

Let me put this into perspective. It’s what Sam Walton would have done if he were a tough bad-ass Krav Maga freak. You can think of other dojos as an itty-bitty 7-11 and this new KM fitness center is that sprawling outlet center up in San Marcos. He didn’t kick it up a notch: he tore it a new one.

Look, you won’t think I’m exaggerating when you see it. This thing has three group training rooms—each of which feels more like a gymnasium than a training room. Each individual training room in the new place will be bigger than all of the training rooms in the existing center combined.

There’s a soundsystem and—get this—stage/event lighting in there that looks like it was designed for the Alamodome. While giving me a walk-through Pete pointed at one of the massive speakers that was laying on the floor awaiting installation. He said it was one of the woofers. Sheesh. It looked like it probably weighed about as much as a VW Beetle.

So you basically have training rooms big enough to train a marching band. If that were all, I would have thought that Pete was just in need of a little vacation. But no, we’re only getting started.

He’s basically built something that resemble’s a Bond villain’s secret lair—a place to train a secret army. He’s created an indoor firing range. He’s built a multi-room “apartment” where people can realistically be trained how to defend loved ones against a home invasion. Oh, and have you ever wondered how you would have reacted on 9/11 if you had been on United Airline’s Flight 98 and you heard the call of “Let’s Roll!”? If so, get this: Pete is building a 737 simulator inside this place! Passenger cabin, galley, and cockpit, too.

There’s going to be an restricted area that will be off-limits to everyone except those in the MMA program. I think it’s okay to reveal that this area will have a fight cage. It also has a projection screen so big that I thought Pete was going to show movies to the public as a side business. But no, he said it will be used to review fight films. I guess seeing a Godzilla-sized image of yourself stupidly dropping your guard and taking a shot to the chin might help you remember not to do that next time.

So while he was giving the the sneak preview of the new place, Pete was going on and on about his plans for the training programs. I wish I could remember it all. He said something about dramatically revamping the kettle bell strength training program . . . the spinning people are going to be swallowed up in a mulitmedia environment so big that they’ll probably think they are on a holodeck . . . and the punching bag room is going to be the kind of place Sugar Ray Leonard would want to spend eternity when his time on earth is through.

This new Krav Maga Fitness Center is just crazy, over-the-top massive. Giiii-normous.

Like I say, Pete has lost his cotton-picking mind.

He’s got plans, yes he does. It’s going to be more than a place for us civilians to get fit and learn Krav Maga self defense techniques. It’s going to be the ultimate training place for law enforcement and special ops types.

But is the world ready for “big box” martial arts fitness centers?

I wonder if he’s gone too far. I just couldn’t help but wonder if there was another level hidden down below. I wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t have some sort of death-ray generator down there, or a pool that has sharks with frickin’ laser beams.

This would not surprise me. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s time for Pete to seek therapy, either. What was he thinking?

I don’t know how long I can leave this field report up before Pete makes me take it down. Maybe he won’t—he’s got a pretty good sense of humor, and of course I’m just kidding, Pete. Really, I am. No, really.

(Closed circuit to everyone but Pete: Folks, I wouldn’t make any sudden movements around Pete for a while. And please let me know if you notice any more outrageous behavior—I’ve got the Bexar County Mental Health Department’s phone number programmed into speed dial.)

Ellen Degeneres learning Krav Maga

The lead instructor of Krav Maga Worldwide in Los Angeles will be showing Ellen Degeneres how to defend herself on today's edition of The Ellen Degeneres Show.

Ellen’s interest in learning how to protect herself came after she was “assaulted” by Chris Mathews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball. There was an awkward moment when Chris appeared on her show and inadvertently groped Ellen as they danced. This grope (a.k.a. “The Incident”) has turned into a running joke, escalating to the point where Ellen is bringing in a Krav Maga Worldwide expert to help her learn how to deal with guests who just can’t seem to keep their hands off her!