Krav Maga Weapon Defenses: The Contact Combat System of the Israel Defense Forces Author: David Kahn | Language: English | ISBN:
B008UTMT70 | Format: PDF
Krav Maga Weapon Defenses: The Contact Combat System of the Israel Defense Forces Description
Winner — 2013 USA Best Books AwardWinner — 2013 IP's Book AwardFinalist — 2013 Book of the Year Award by ForeWord MagazineRegardless of strength, size, age, or gender, you can learn krav maga techniques to fend off an armed attacker.
Israeli Krav Maga is the Israel Defense Force’s official self-defense system. The system is simple, instinctive, adaptable, and if necessary, brutally effective to thwart a life threatening assault. Krav maga is particularly world renowned for its weapon defenses.
This book presents the most up-to-date and effective techniques to prevail against armed threats and attacks. These techniques are incorporated into the green, blue, brown, and black belt levels of the Israeli krav maga curriculum.
Many of these updated defenses have never been seen before. Grandmaster Haim Gidon has improved and evolved this material with the late krav maga founder Imi Lichtenfeld’s formal approval.
Contents include these important topics:
•Weapon awareness training; functionality, range, and deployment
•Dominant control holds over a stunned assailant
•Edged weapon defenses
•Impact weapon defenses
•Handgun defenses
•Rifle defenses
•Defending against weapons while on the ground
•Defending against continuous attacks
•Non-conventional weapon threats
•First-party hostage situations
•Kravist weapon defense drills
The conditioning and hand-eye coordination achieved by practicing these techniques will tone your muscles, improve your reflexes, and get you street prepared. This is the most up-to-date, authoritative, and advanced guide to the world’s premier weapons defense tactics.
- File Size: 145755 KB
- Print Length: 322 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1594392404
- Publisher: YMAA Publication Center (August 9, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008UTMT70
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Well as I stated in the title of my review, David Kahn Has Done It Again!, once again David Kahn has written an excellent book on Krav Maga and more specifically on the weapon defenses used in Krav Maga. Defenses against all manner of sticks and bludgeoning weapons, a wide array of edged weapons, handguns, long guns (rifles, shotguns, etc.), and even sub-machine guns. He even hints at defenses against an attacker armed with a hand grenade, but doesn't really go into it. Perhaps he is saving that for a later volume. Well enough of the synopsis of the book and let's get to my review of the subject matter in the book starting with my initial receipt of the book, or perhaps I should say lack of receiving it.
I had been anxiously awaiting the release of this book for quite some time ever since I talked with the author and was told it would be coming out during the early summer of 2012. So you can imagine my utter surprise when the book had indeed been released, yet I hadn't received a copy yet from two different sources that I was supposed to receive it from. Major disappointment! However, I ended up ordering it on-line from a bricks and mortar bookstore that was able to get it for me in a matter of a couple of days. Okay, I guess I can wait a bit longer. Anyhow, a few days later the book arrives and even though I was disappointed in not receiving it earlier, I was thrilled to finally get it and eagerly started reading it. Here are my thoughts on the contents of this book.
FIRST and FOREMOST
Finally, the author has included a whole bunch of photographs to go along with the descriptive text. YIPPEE!!!
This has been a complaint of mine that I had concerning his first two books and I am thrilled that he has included a lot of photographs in this book.
"Krav Maga Weapon Defenses" by David Kahn is an excellent addition to anyone's self-defense library, especially those who practice or want to know more about Krav Maga, in particular, weapon defenses from this combat system from the Israel Defense Forces.
The book's introduction describes not only a bit about Krav Maga, but street violence in general, and I found this to be a very good beginning of the book. Next, the first chapter covers some control holds found in the system that are used in various weapon defenses throughout the text.
Chapter 2 focuses on Impact-Weapon Defenses and contains some good advice when faced with someone who wants to cave your head in with a crow bar, bat or any other blunt instrument. The only problem I had with this chapter is with a picture on page 31 that appears to show a block of a crow bar with the forearm. Since I didn't talk to the author about this, and I understand it is hard to describe and use pictures for techniques, I'm not going to dismiss the book for this, but it did draw my attention. You do not want to take a crow bar to the arm, albeit, it would be better than one to the head, but neither is going to be very good.
Chapter three focuses on leg defenses against edged weapon attacks. Some of these are going to be difficult for the person who doesn't practice Krav Maga or another kicking art. As part of the Krav Maga curriculum, I'm glad they are included in this book. However, for the person just looking for practical self-defense skills, without kicking experience, they will most likely be the techniques skipped over in this book. And that is okay, because kicking is harder skill and takes practice to become good.
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