TNT Academy

TNT Academy, as it is today, is the result of over 28 years (and it`s still counting) of martial arts experience. It was established in April 2010, primarily to serve its customers on a private training basis only. Then Tamas soon realised the need for a club where values like loyalty, hard work, reliability and fairness come before everything else, that is free of egos and politics, focuses on what`s actually working in real life and has a no-nonsense approach to self-defence. In September 2010 the work started to transform the club into a full scale operation. As a result, the club ran its first lesson in October 2010.

Since then we`ve been a member of different organisations and experienced the Krav Maga world first hand. Tamas has been the secretary of one the biggest organisations for about 5 years and, one of their two highest level instructors in the UK. He has also been a country representative and director for the UK of another organisation.
A massive impact on the club`s approach took place when Tamas started working on the front line as a Door Supervisor for a huge club in Reading, Berkshire where he was a member of a 17 strong team. He then moved to a small pub in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, where he was the only doorman. From here he was promoted to run the security team for one of the largest pubs in Oxford City Centre, which he did for 2.5 years. All of these experiences led to one conclusion: TNT Academy focuses on principles rather than techniques.
The next huge step for the club happened in April 2018 when 4 of Tamas`s friends and closest students got qualified and joined the club as instructors. The club keeps growing and is constantly on the lookout for students who share the TNT vision and either would like to join us for some seriously good training or become instructors with the club or on their own.

Active instructors

Inactive instructors

TNT Academy instructors:

Tamas: started his martial arts career in 1993 with Aikido and achieved 1st Dan under the late Nobuyoshi Tamura who was one of the main “uchi-deshi”-s (student who lives in his master`s house and pays for teaching and living there with chores) of the founder of Akidio. He started to practice Krav Maga in 2003, achieved Expert Level 1 in 2011, the Expert Level 2 in 2014. He has trained under many instructors (Eyal Yanilov, Zeev Cohen, Avi Moyal, Tamir Gilad, Amnon Darsa, Haim Sasson, Jyrki Saario, etc.) who got their black belts/expert levels directly from Imi, which makes him a 2nd generation instructor. Tamas qualified as an instructor in (and has been teaching since) February 2007. Has been practising Muay Thai since 2012 and different styles of Eskrima/Kali since 2003. He is a certified coach in Dacayana Eskrima. He has 4.5 years’ door supervisor experience. Relevant qualification: P.E. Teacher. Has been teaching kids since 2002 and SEN students since 2016. He has a lot of in-class and field based teaching experience with kids. Tamas is a PADI Diver.

Matt: started to practice Krav Maga in February 2011 with Tamas. He has 20 years’ door supervisor experience. He qualified as an instructor in (and has been teaching since) April 2018 then as a R.E.A.L. Krav Maga Level II. Instructor in July 2019. In 2021 he received his R.E.A.L Krav Maga Level III. Instructor title and, as a result of his hard work, technical knowledge and dedication towards helping Tamas developing the system, he got promoted to Black Level I. in December 2022.

David: started to practice Krav Maga in July 2011 with Tamas. He got qualified as an instructor in (and has been teaching since) April 2018. Dave has extensive teaching/training experience as a PADI Dive Master.

Danijel: started to practice Krav Maga in 2005 with Tamas who introduced him to Krav Maga and also was a student at the time. He got qualified as an instructor in (and has been teaching since) April 2018. He has 2 years’ experience as a police officer in Croatia and specialises in teaching kids. As a Scout Leader he has a lot of in-class and field based teaching experience with kids. Danijel is a PADI diver.

Tom: started to practice Krav Maga in June 2008 with Tamas and got qualified as an instructor in 2019. He has 20 years’ door supervisor experience.

Clint: started to practice Krav Maga in October 2017 with Tamas and Muay Thai in 2002 (both in the UK and in Thailand). Clint got qualified as an MMA Conditioning Coach in December 2019 by NASM.

Adam: started to practice Krav Maga in 2010 and has trained with various organisations over the years up until recently when he joined R.E.A.L. Krav Maga and enrolled on the instructor course. He is an I.I.T. (Instructor In Training) in Hungary at the moment due to the Corona virus pandemic and awaiting qualification. Adam has been involved in Tactical Shooting Games for a long time and has achieved various titles in shooting competitions in Hungary (AA IPSC Level I Competition – III. Place in Junior Pistol Standard Category /in 2017/, District Junior Shooting Championship – I. Place in Junior Rifle Category /in 2016/).

Neville: started to practice Krav Maga in 2016, joined Tamas and TNT Academy in 2018, then qualified as an instructor in 2019. Neville has experience in working with SEN students.

R.E.A.L. Self Defence:

What is R.E.A.L. Self Defence?

R – realistic, E – effective, A – adaptive, L – logical

In 2019 Tamas and his highest level students established R.E.A.L. Self Defence which is based on Krav Maga, our own real life experiences and Hick`s Law (our motto is: Less is more!). This was due to the increasing demand for a simple, direct, effective and “tested in real life” self defence system in order to provide the best tuition in the most professional way that`s fact based and backed by science. Our system uses these four pillars due to our life experience. We have 50+ combined years’ worth of front line experience as door supervisors, head door supervisors and an ex-police officer.

The system is Realistic because not only have we studied both a few other Krav Maga styles and different martial arts, like: Aikido, Eskrima/Kali, Muay Thai but we had the chance to test countless techniques in real life scenarios so we have a pretty good understanding about what works in real life and what is just a myth.

Our techniques are Effective because we have had to use many of them and so far, we came out winning every altercation we were involved in. Put simply: if it doesn`t work we don`t train it.

Our system is Adaptive as we know that every situation is different. Techniques have to work for everyone, both for a smaller defender against a bigger attacker and the other way round. They have to work when it`s raining in a dark alleyway or in bright sunshine on the beach.

Logical as it builds on the natural instincts. It doesn`t try to teach long, new patterns like a kata in martial arts. Our system is principle led and not technique led like many other Krav Maga styles. Once someone understands the principles the correct technical executions suddenly become less important.

We also provide a professional, world-class instructor development program. If you have a significant martial art background (mainly in a striking type of art/sport like Muay Thai Box, Kickbox, Kyokushinkai Karate, Sambo or even wrestling, BJJ etc.) or if you are a Krav Maga instructor already but you feel that there is something wrong with the techniques you’re being asked to teach, or you are fed up with the politics and you want to become a R.E.A.L. Self Defence Instructor, contact us now!