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Advanced Krav Maga: The Next Level of Fitness and Self-Defense
Get in the best shape of your life and master real fighting techniques with Advanced Krav Maga
Based on the principles of enhancing natural instincts and using appropriate force for self-protection and weapons defense, anyone can master the moves of krav maga – the international self-defense Martial Arts and physical fitness sensation designed by the Israel Defense Forces.
This follow up to Krav An Essential Guide to the Renowned Method - for Fitness and Self-Defense , explores essential combative tactics including standing, clinch, and extensive groundwork from yellow, orange and green belt levels, to help you update and improve your skills. In this guide to advance techniques and training, David Kahn will teach
*How krav maga saved Ernest Kovary, Imi Lichtenfeld's oldest living student, the day World War II began
*The mindset of effective self-defense
*Upper and lower body combatives and defenses
*Powerful retzev workouts
*New techniques for mastering escapes against chokes, grabs, and takedowns
*Krav maga groundwork and instruction
*Women's self-defense principles
Regardless of strength, size, age, or gender, you can learn advanced techniques for fending off any attacker – swiftly, powerfully, and simply. And the conditioning you will achieve by practicing these techniques will tone your muscles, improve your reflexes, and get you fighting fit. From the American expert and Israeli Grandmaster Haim Gidon's United States representative in the fitness and combat techniques of krav maga, this is the most up to date, authoritative, and advanced guide to real fighting techniques and rigorous conditioning.
Based on the principles of enhancing natural instincts and using appropriate force for self-protection and weapons defense, anyone can master the moves of krav maga – the international self-defense Martial Arts and physical fitness sensation designed by the Israel Defense Forces.
This follow up to Krav An Essential Guide to the Renowned Method - for Fitness and Self-Defense , explores essential combative tactics including standing, clinch, and extensive groundwork from yellow, orange and green belt levels, to help you update and improve your skills. In this guide to advance techniques and training, David Kahn will teach
*How krav maga saved Ernest Kovary, Imi Lichtenfeld's oldest living student, the day World War II began
*The mindset of effective self-defense
*Upper and lower body combatives and defenses
*Powerful retzev workouts
*New techniques for mastering escapes against chokes, grabs, and takedowns
*Krav maga groundwork and instruction
*Women's self-defense principles
Regardless of strength, size, age, or gender, you can learn advanced techniques for fending off any attacker – swiftly, powerfully, and simply. And the conditioning you will achieve by practicing these techniques will tone your muscles, improve your reflexes, and get you fighting fit. From the American expert and Israeli Grandmaster Haim Gidon's United States representative in the fitness and combat techniques of krav maga, this is the most up to date, authoritative, and advanced guide to real fighting techniques and rigorous conditioning.
- GenresMartial Arts
256 pages, Paperback
First published September 16, 2007
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About the author
David Kahn
68 books69 followersA specialist on the history of cryptography and military intelligence, David Kahn worked as a reporter and op-ed editor for Newsday until his retirement in 1998, and was selected in 1995 as scholar-in-residence at the National Security Agency. Kahn earned a D.Phil in modern German history from Oxford University in 1974 under the supervision of the then-Regius professor of modern history, Hugh Trevor-Roper.
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August 22, 2018
An interesting and useful overview of common self-defense techniques. I'm not sure whether it would be helpful for people who don't already have extensive martial arts background and are capable of translating the descriptions into action - especially if they don't have a partner to work with.
It was a helpful refresher on the Krav Maga I took in college and the concept of "retnev" or continuous flow in fighting was new and useful.
Worth reading if you already know some self-defense combatives and looking for a breadth of common techniques to cover any edges you might have missed. Alternately, if you have a training partner, you can cover a lot of the basics by practicing what's in this book.
It was a helpful refresher on the Krav Maga I took in college and the concept of "retnev" or continuous flow in fighting was new and useful.
Worth reading if you already know some self-defense combatives and looking for a breadth of common techniques to cover any edges you might have missed. Alternately, if you have a training partner, you can cover a lot of the basics by practicing what's in this book.
August 24, 2011
Probably should have started with a beginners level book but I still really liked this and having had a little hand to hand combat training I wasn't completely at a loss. Key words there are probably "little" and "completely".
March 4, 2013
Looks pretty cool and very detailed. Has also good suggestions, sounds pretty paranoid, but is true to metropolitan areas like NY.
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