--- product_id: 4463251 title: "Krav Maga: Use Your Body as a Weapon" price: "€ 59.47" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.nl/products/4463251-krav-maga-use-your-body-as-a-weapon store_origin: NL region: Netherlands --- # Krav Maga: Use Your Body as a Weapon **Price:** € 59.47 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Krav Maga: Use Your Body as a Weapon - **How much does it cost?** € 59.47 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nl](https://www.desertcart.nl/products/4463251-krav-maga-use-your-body-as-a-weapon) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The complete beginner’s guide to Krav Maga An instructional book for athletes interested in this type of self-defense Updated edition that contains the basic rules and new tips to improve your form and prevent injury This training manual is ideal for anyone curious about Krav Maga. This noncompetitive self- defense technique began in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). The guide’s author, Boaz Aviram, has been a member of the IDF for years. Krav Maga brings together skills and training from many martial arts, ranging from jiujitsu to judo to boxing. It shares with is students critical lessons in maintaining awareness and making each strike count in self-defense. In its instructional and updated edition, Krav Maga: Use Your Body as a Weapon teaches athletes about their own anatomy and muscles to help them avoid injury. Aviram provides concrete and reliable information on how to tackle your opponent int he more efficient and effective way. Some methods include: Paying attention to possible escape routes Using your opponent’s weakest areas to your advantage Using common objects at hand to fight with Preemptive counterattacks This book offers the basic philosophy and use of hand-to-hand training as it began, and the author meticulously describes the basis of each skill to help the reader and athlete understand it clearly. With more than 1,000 photos and 150 techniques, Krav Maga: Use Your Body as a a Weapon belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in this technique. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sports—books about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team. In addition to books on popular team sports, we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts, including books on running, cycling, horseback riding, swimming, tennis, martial arts, golf, camping, hiking, aviation, boating, and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. Review: The Gold Standard for Krav Maga and Self-Defense Manuals - The excellent first edition of this book was self-published by Master Sergeant Boaz Aviram who was 3rd in line as Chief Instructor of the Israeli Defense Force Fighting Fitness Academy. This new edition published by Skyhorse Publishing is even better! The grammatical and typographical errors have all been corrected, and the photographs are now larger and in color. This encyclopedic work lays out clearly for the reader the highly efficient method used by the Israeli Defense Force to train its soldiers in Krav Maga (or Close Combat). This is the single most comprehensive and in-depth treatise on modern hand-to-hand combat ever available. If one is looking for a single text to explain both the mindset required to survive a violent encounter AND the techniques necessary to triumph over one's adversary, look no further. This book has set not just a standard to be met but THE Gold Standard for martial arts and self-defense manuals. Well done MSG Aviram! Review: Force multiplier - The first IDF Krav Maga Chief Instructor Immi Lichtenfeld passed away. Same for the second IDF Krav Maga Chief Instructor Eli Avikzar. But the third IDF Krav Maga Chief Instructor Boaz Aviram is still with us and in 2010 he self-published a book (with black-and-white photos) focusing on proper biomechanics and technique for authentic Krav Maga. That book was republished by Skyhorse Publishing as a new 2014 edition here, with full-color photos. (Boaz also produced a DVD series in 2010 which covers the core of Krav Maga, which you should consider purchasing in addition to this book: Pure Krav Maga - Self Defense Mastery ) The latest version of the DVDs are sold by desertcart as a 4 and 3 disk bundle at a new webpage: Pure Krav Maga - Self Defense Mastery If anyone knows Krav, it's Boaz. His tenure as IDF Chief Instructor was approximately 1981 - 1983, predating the more widely-known Darren Levine -- Boaz told me "I was asked to train Darren Levine upon arrival to the US in Oct 1985 to complete his training for his conditional blackbelt, but he prevented that from happening by excusing himself from inviting me during a phone conversation." So, for the contemporary student trying to capture what made Krav Maga legendary, Boaz is our direct link to the original Krav, or as he calls it, "Pure Krav Maga" (PKM). PKM looks deceptively simple but the biomechanics are sophisticated -- and NOT found in the other versions of Krav widely available to the public. It is necessary to perform and overlap actions with a particular sequence and timing, if you want an optimal result. That's the difference between a jab, and a knockout punch. The details are in the book (and his DVDs). Considering that the Japanese PKM interest group functioned for two years using just Boaz's book and video (before their instructor recently got official certification), there is enough material here to help you practice in depth for a long time, and on-target. This is the Krav you've been looking for! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #985,149 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #315 in Boxing (Books) #580 in Sports Encyclopedias #719 in Sports Reference (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 240 Reviews | ## Images ![Krav Maga: Use Your Body as a Weapon - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/816WRSK6b1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Gold Standard for Krav Maga and Self-Defense Manuals *by J***. on July 3, 2014* The excellent first edition of this book was self-published by Master Sergeant Boaz Aviram who was 3rd in line as Chief Instructor of the Israeli Defense Force Fighting Fitness Academy. This new edition published by Skyhorse Publishing is even better! The grammatical and typographical errors have all been corrected, and the photographs are now larger and in color. This encyclopedic work lays out clearly for the reader the highly efficient method used by the Israeli Defense Force to train its soldiers in Krav Maga (or Close Combat). This is the single most comprehensive and in-depth treatise on modern hand-to-hand combat ever available. If one is looking for a single text to explain both the mindset required to survive a violent encounter AND the techniques necessary to triumph over one's adversary, look no further. This book has set not just a standard to be met but THE Gold Standard for martial arts and self-defense manuals. Well done MSG Aviram! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Force multiplier *by S***R on June 14, 2016* The first IDF Krav Maga Chief Instructor Immi Lichtenfeld passed away. Same for the second IDF Krav Maga Chief Instructor Eli Avikzar. But the third IDF Krav Maga Chief Instructor Boaz Aviram is still with us and in 2010 he self-published a book (with black-and-white photos) focusing on proper biomechanics and technique for authentic Krav Maga. That book was republished by Skyhorse Publishing as a new 2014 edition here, with full-color photos. (Boaz also produced a DVD series in 2010 which covers the core of Krav Maga, which you should consider purchasing in addition to this book: Pure Krav Maga - Self Defense Mastery ) The latest version of the DVDs are sold by Amazon as a 4 and 3 disk bundle at a new webpage: Pure Krav Maga - Self Defense Mastery If anyone knows Krav, it's Boaz. His tenure as IDF Chief Instructor was approximately 1981 - 1983, predating the more widely-known Darren Levine -- Boaz told me "I was asked to train Darren Levine upon arrival to the US in Oct 1985 to complete his training for his conditional blackbelt, but he prevented that from happening by excusing himself from inviting me during a phone conversation." So, for the contemporary student trying to capture what made Krav Maga legendary, Boaz is our direct link to the original Krav, or as he calls it, "Pure Krav Maga" (PKM). PKM looks deceptively simple but the biomechanics are sophisticated -- and NOT found in the other versions of Krav widely available to the public. It is necessary to perform and overlap actions with a particular sequence and timing, if you want an optimal result. That's the difference between a jab, and a knockout punch. The details are in the book (and his DVDs). Considering that the Japanese PKM interest group functioned for two years using just Boaz's book and video (before their instructor recently got official certification), there is enough material here to help you practice in depth for a long time, and on-target. This is the Krav you've been looking for! ### ⭐⭐⭐ An okay book on Krav Maga that can be used as a basic guide for those taking actual hands-on Krav Maga classes. *by J***E on September 8, 2014* Many years I was introduced to Krav Maga when I was a defensive tactics instructor for my agency. I had already earned Black Belts in Judo, Jujitsu and Karate at that time, as well as being certified in several police tactics systems. The founder Immi Sde-Or Lichtenfeld and many of his instructors gave a six day intensive (8 hours a day) instructor course to us at the Illinois State Police Academy in Springfield. Over the years I have also read and reviewed numerous books and DVDs on the Israeli Krav Maga self-defense system. I purchased this volume (Krav Maga: Use your body as a weapon by Boaz Aviram) through Amazon and found it to be a fair basic introduction to Krav Maga. Its 315 pages cover a wide range of material and there are over one thousand photographs showing the techniques. The thirteen chapters cover the following information: Lessons from history, preparing for face-to-face confrontation, primary strikes and kicks, defenses vs. strikes and kicks, close range scenarios, ground fighting, club and chin, knife techniques and defenses, handling pistol threat scenarios, applications for uniformed armed personnel and civilians, other kicks, principles of defense against multiple opponents and advanced training topics. The amount of information in this text is comprehensive; however, there are a few things I did not like about this book and that is why I only gave it three stars. (1) Even though the photographs are in color, the outside background in the trees and grass take away from seeing some of the techniques as clearly as they could be. (2) I do not think the chapter on high kicks and jumping kicks was needed or advisable to use in a real street confrontation. (3) There is no way a beginner can learn this material from just reading this book. If you are taking Krav Maga from an instructor this book could be of value. (4) In my humble opinion, having read just about every book on Krav Maga I could lay my hands on, I think there are a lot better books than this one on Krav Maga. (5) Some of these techniques appear are too complex for actual use in actual street combat. (6) I know there are politics in every martial art, and I have read some in other Krav Maga books. It seems like every Krav Maga instructor claims they are teaching the “authentic” Krav Maga. However, just about all the Krav Maga books shows mostly the same techniques that I learned more than twenty years ago at an instructor’s seminar. In conclusion, if you are presently taking Krav Maga this book could be helpful. Rating: 3 Stars. Joseph J. 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