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"Get in the best shape of your life while learning the most effective self-defense technique in the world."
- David Barton, fitness expert and owner, David Barton Gyms
"Training with" krav maga "instructor David Kahn was an honor and privilege, and the tactics he teaches are a valuable skill."
- Mark A. Hanafee, U. S. Coast Guard Police Training Officer
"David Kahn is a wonderful teacher and I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone--male or female, big or small, or fat."
- James Gandolfini, actor ("The Sopranos")
- David Barton, fitness expert and owner, David Barton Gyms
"Training with" krav maga "instructor David Kahn was an honor and privilege, and the tactics he teaches are a valuable skill."
- Mark A. Hanafee, U. S. Coast Guard Police Training Officer
"David Kahn is a wonderful teacher and I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone--male or female, big or small, or fat."
- James Gandolfini, actor ("The Sopranos")
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Becoming increasingly popular as a self-defence method and fitness programme, Krav Maga is the Israeli military's renowned method for fending off attackers of all kinds. Based on the principles of doing minimal harm and enhancing our natural instincts for self-protection, anyone can master its moves - regardless of strength, size, age, or gender. Profiled in USA Today, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine, David Kahn is the top Krav Maga expert and instructor in the U.S. He presents the basic techniques and principles in this excellent beginner's guide. Topics include: Anticipating an attack; Understanding the body's vulnerable targets; Mastering essential defence techniques, and more. With illustrations and photographs, plus training drills and workouts, and a few advanced moves, this is an essential guide to an empowering and life-changing skill, as well as an amazing conditioning programme.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a UK military close combat instructor, I cannot recommend this book highly enough! If you are serious about self-defence, and these days you should be, then you could do a lot worse than start here. David Kahn is a well-known (in the US) practitioner of the art of Krav Maga. The International Krav Maga Association has a good website to help you find local instructors for other countries.
The book gives a nice little history of how the art came to be, and the reasoning behind it. This is not an "ancient art", although it draws on theories and practices of many other fighting arts, and converts and updates them for realistic situations. Krav Maga is essentially a "street" combat system, not a demonstration system. It's not a pretty art, it's designed to get you out of a situation the quickest way possible - which by necessity means the most direct and most effective, most often the most violent approach. If you think you can't do this, then you are already a victim - you have to be prepared to take a fight as far as it needs to be taken - until the aggressor is unable to carry on, or you can be away on your toes!
This book will give you an idea of how to defend yourself, but needs to be backed up with formal training (you will not be able to devote full power training to the techniques unless you are in a properly supervised environment). Saying that, the twelve week programme contained in the book is good enough to get you to a basic level of conditioning and awareness. The best two techniques can be learnt and applied in 5 minutes, as Kahn explains - gouge the eyes, attack the groin, run away! There is no shame in running away if it lets you live another day!
In summary, this is a great book - it details the basic moves for the entry-level practitioner of Krav Maga, and the twelve week programme will get you to a level at which you should be able to defend yourself - it also gets you extremely fit! I would also recommend attending local classes - this is a growing system, with more instructors being trained all the time. Buy this book, devote some time to it, and hope that you never have to apply any of the techniques for real!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
David's book is well written, informative and superbly illustrated. It provides an excellent companion to class instruction and provides insight into the numerous techniques employed. David is a superb instructor and this certainly comes across in his book. Anyone wishing to take up Krav Maga should certainly have a copy of this book on their shelf. I recommend it without hesitation to everyone from the beginner to the advanced kravist.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A truly inspirational book!
Easily the best book of this genre.
Whole heartedly recommended to anyone wishing to learn Krav Maga.
Having been training in Krav Maga for a while now this book is a true motivational and reference aid. Incredibly well written and all moves are explained in easy-to-understand instructions, more importantly you`ll retain what you learn.
I would definitely classify this book as a must-buy item if you wish to learn or would like to improve in Krav Maga.
Consider other Krav Maga books but only AFTER you buy this one.
Well worthy of a 5 star review!!
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go else where
this book although well written will teach you very few techniques you can actually go out and practice with a partner, compared to darren lavine's books it fails badly-go get... Read more
Published 2 months ago by john
Krav Maga - Hoo yah!
This was a gift for someone who participates in Krav Maga. It was stated that this was an excellent choice of books for the techniques, as it broke them down, expalained... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Snow White 33
Good job Mr Kahn
Of course the book it's not enough but it's very careful regarding the approach to the art of self defense the Israelian way. Don't expect tons of pictures or drawings. Read more
Published 13 months ago by L. Cristian
Krav Maga David Kahn
This is the worst Martial Art book out there. Krav Maga deserves better than this. No photo's added just diagrams showing techniques. Truly terrible. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2010 by Julie -. Marie Whitaker
Techniques for the streets!
I highly recommend this book. Well written, presented and illustrated, it provides a superb introduction to this gritty no-nonsense fighting art. Read more
Published on 2 April 2009 by P. Clark
Krav Maga: A Complete Guide for Fitness and Self-Defence
As an avid researcher and practioner of different self-defence/self-protection/combatives systems I fully recommend this book. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2009 by Benny 2 x
Not very good
This book is rubbish, the drawings that are supposed to demonstrate the moves are poor, the fitness instructions are poor, and the overall written matter is fantasy. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2009 by bear
Krav Maga: A Complete Guide for Fitness and Self-defence
I read this manual while on holiday and prior to taking lessons in Krav Maga as way of a 'heads up' on the subject. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2009 by Jake Mcquade
Excellent Beginner Book
I enjoyed very much reading this book about Krav Maga.
The author focus the first chapters on the History, Philosophy and principles of this Self-Defence and Combat... Read more
The author focus the first chapters on the History, Philosophy and principles of this Self-Defence and Combat... Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2009 by Miguel Durao
BASIC BOOK
THIS IS A VERY BASIC BOOK FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS NO EXPERIENCE AT ALL OF MARTIAL ARTS,IDEALLY IT WOULD SUIT WOMEN WHO ARE JUST LOOKING FOR SOME BASIC SELF DEFENCE TIPS
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