The ideas of the Krav Maga Survival is based on the concepts of Israely close combat masters amongs others from Krav Maga קרב מגע.

Further influence of the basis has been made by the founders Taiyo,  Co-founder Glenn Jordheim and the connected instructors and advisors.

The name "Survival" in Krav Maga Survival is directly derived from Dr. Dennis Hanover´s Hisardut (Survival). 
      
The system will continuously be improved by the excellent technical advisors who have agreed to help continously developing Krav Maga Survival. Also the students and instructors of the Krav Maga Survival are encouraged to make input and help develop the best techniques for the solution.

The Krav Maga Survival solution was founded in recognition to the Israeli masters who came up with excellent ideas and used their experience to create a successful system which gave a tool for their target group.

However as technology develops and communication has brought a revolution to spreading information and techniques, the founders used the newly available information together with the basis of the Israeli grandmasters to create an improved satellite of the existing and very well rounded systems.                 

An important basic idea is to make the Krav Maga Survival available to everyone who has the right spirit and deserves to be taught - NOT using religion, political conviction or gender as a criterion – Also the system must be available to everybody with no regards to economic background. Fees to the Krav Maga Survival organization or instructors are recommended to remain at a reasonable, but low level.  

Further it is a basic thought to make techniques law-conform (legal). This means that, besides the usual Krav Maga techniques, Krav Maga Survival is building a solution which uses "Proportional use of force". Fight only with the means you have to - but be sure remain in power fighting.

Tactical survival is also an idea used in the Krav Maga Survival solution - here you will use the idea of having a plan before you get in trouble or at best ....learn how to awoid getting in trouble

Krav Maga Survival does all possible to keep in contact with the grandmasters and their extremely invaluable knowledge and developments in order to preserve these. However the opportunity to gain the best techniques from all existing Krav Maga systems as well as traditional and practice oriented modern sports is kept.

This is the Krav Maga Survival solution: “to create and keep developing the best solution available under the conditions of reality based - easy to learn - close combat for professionals and civilians.”

 Taiyo, 2006