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 Maga: 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 you:

• 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.