Our Krav Maga Instructors

Sergey Baskin

Head InstructorCertified K.A.M.I. instructor since 2006 · Second-degree black belt

I have been a certified Krav Magen Israeli instructor since 2006, and I am one of the first K.A.M.I. instructors in Canada. This is my mat.

I was born in Belarus and grew up in Israel. I was a quiet child, and quiet children get picked. That is why I teach. My parents put me in karate at eight. At thirteen I moved to Kung-fu. At fifteen I found K.A.M.I., and I stopped looking.

After three years in the Combat Infantry Division of the Israel Defense Forces, I moved to Canada at twenty-seven as the Israeli association’s official representative here. Since 2016 I have taught K.A.M.I. self-defence to students of every age across the GTA. Every summer I go back to Israel for the instructor’s course with my grandmaster — a month of training, and a hand in running the course for the students coming up behind me.

I also train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I know what it is to be young and outmatched, and I would rather nobody else had to. Confidence is what students actually leave with. The technique is how they get there.

Matti Prima

InstructorKrav Maga since 2007 · Second-level licensed through Levinsky-Wingate Academic College

Matti brings nearly two decades of Krav Maga to Vaughan, and a teaching style that has students laughing during the warm-up and completely focused the moment technique starts.

He began in 2007 and has trained in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Boston and across Toronto. He holds first- and second-level instructor licences through the Levinsky-Wingate Academic College, both earned under Grand Master Avi Abeceedon, head of the K.A.M.I. Association. He has watched the system get simpler and more effective over that time, and his classes carry the distilled version. He teaches from age six to seniors, and he is at his best breaking a complicated movement into pieces anyone can absorb. Sparring is encouraged. Safety is not negotiable. His rule: body memory is what saves lives.

He is especially invested in the younger students — small wins, confidence built through achievement, and an endless stream of practice attacks from kids thrilled to take on their instructor. It looks like play. It is method. He is also building a Krav Maga program for seniors, an idea that comes from personal experience: Krav Maga is what keeps him moving at the pace of his three grandchildren.

Milana

InstructorCertified through Levinsky-Wingate Academic College · At K.A.M.I. Canada since 2024

Milana was born in Ukraine, raised in Israel from 1991, and served two years in the Israel Defense Forces.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology and Food Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, and studied Human Nutrition at the University of Manitoba. A lifelong athlete, weightlifter and runner, she trained in Muay Thai before following her son into Taekwondo, where she earned a second-degree black belt. She found K.A.M.I. Canada in 2024, trained under Sergey, and earned her instructor certification through the Levinsky-Wingate Academic College in Israel.

“I’m an engineer by training and by mindset, and K.A.M.I. won me over with its common sense. The techniques are simple, effective and built on fundamentals — most of them are easy to learn and easy to execute under pressure.”

Come in with a martial arts background and you will use it, but you will be adding new layers to it — including tools your old discipline never allowed. Come in with nothing and you will find you can stand up to someone who has training, because you will have practical defence they do not expect.