A passion for people, Gergana is a pharmacist so helping people is part of her day to day professional life but it goes far beyond that, Gergana has an innate drive: to motive, to inspire, and to help as many people as possible. This is an asset to an academy that already strives to do just that. Gergana became a Krav Maga instructor under Krav Maga Master Gheorghe Husar in 2018 and immediately began work as an inspirational, role model for the Academy’s Young Spartans and female Members.

As part of her duties, Gergana has received training in Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and learnt the essential skills to detect, report and deal with abuse, especially emotional abuse (which is the more insidious form of aggression and often the most invisible one). This training, her natural ability in Krav Maga Self Defence “proving size and sex doesn’t matter”, coupled with her passion to help and inspire; has enabled Gergana to put all of her practice and knowledge in to action and make a real difference to women and children through Spartans Academy projects like: Rotherham Council’s ‘Anti-Bullying and Self Defence’ Programme, ‘Self Defence for Girls’ IDAS and ‘Self Defence for Young Adults’ through National Citizen Service.

“…The 5-8 year olds’ class comes to a close after they’ve completed stretches, self defence exercises, assault courses, fitness drills, and a ‘keeping safe’ anti-bullying group chat.
Gergana gets the young ones safely back to their parents and it’s straight into the class for 9-15 year olds. Dynamic warm up, stretches, fitness drills and ‘self defence for real life’: how to apply your knowledge and skills – the attendees are having to deal with defending and obstacles. This is followed by more stationary (to give them a working rest) work on their technique. They’re improving muscle memory, thinking, vision, confidence and self defence skills. By the end they are tired but they don’t want to stop! Fantastic, never give up attitude and an excellent class from Gergana.”