| I just finished reading "Complete Krav Maga" by | | | | guide for the reader to learn and develop the |
| Darren Levine and John Whitman for the second time | | | | self-defensive skills that they will be able to utilize |
| in as many weeks and I have to say that it is a very | | | | effectively in a self-defense situation, not a certain |
| well done book covering the basic techniques needed | | | | number of techniques set in stone to advance to the |
| to advance through the ranks of Krav Maga from | | | | next rank. |
| yellow belt all the way up to and including brown belt. | | | | Although I enjoyed the vast majority of the material |
| However, having said that, it should be noted that as | | | | presented in this book, I personally liked the sections |
| the author so firmly states, "Krav Maga is not a martial | | | | dealing with various ground fighting skills and defenses |
| art, it is a form of self-defense." | | | | against various weapons the most. Another notable |
| I only have one small complaint with this book and that | | | | section of this book was the various training examples |
| is that in one respect, it is no different from the vast | | | | that were presented throughout. |
| majority of books out there that try and teach you too | | | | Now I don't know if I am going to offend a bunch of |
| many things in one volume and don't spend enough | | | | people here or not, but my personal take on Krav |
| time on each individual technique. This one small | | | | Maga is similar to that of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, in |
| detractor is greatly overshadowed by the sheer | | | | that it borrows those techniques from various systems |
| amount of good solid information that it does include, of | | | | that prove to be most effective and combine them |
| which the importance of principles being stressed as | | | | with a central "core" style and then add an outstanding |
| far more important than technique itself is perhaps the | | | | set of principles to create an effective means of |
| most profound. | | | | self-defense. |
| The authors have provided some very good basic | | | | This is a very worth while book to purchase if you are |
| information on the execution of techniques, although | | | | interested in learning how to defend yourself against a |
| not as detailed as they should be, which is | | | | variety of attacks. However, as I stated earlier, if you |
| understandable in the context of what the authors | | | | want to really learn how to correctly execute the |
| were trying to get across to the readers. It should be | | | | individual techniques, you will need to purchase some |
| noted though that this book is intended to be used as | | | | additional books. |