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Krav Maga is a practical system, and our approach to using it should be practical as well. It has come a long way from the 1940s, when Imi Lichtenfeld designed it as a system of close combat for a soldier with a pack on his or her back. Where violence on the battlefield was simple and direct, the aggressive and violent situations in which modern soldiers and civilians find themselves are much more complex; the modern infantryman has to perform peacekeeping and law-enforcement roles, and civilians have to deal with muggers, sexual assailants, and drunks in bars. While the techniques of Krav Maga are still simple, the situations where they may need to be applied are far from simplistic, and Krav Maga has evolved and developed in order to remain effective and applicable.

This book is divided into four parts: the first part looks at striking and blocking; the second at armed scenarios; the third at unarmed assaults and the situations in which they occur; and the fourth at throws and takedowns. Although this book stands alone, I refer in places to my first book, Krav Maga: Real World Solutions to Real World Violence (published by Tuttle), as I didn’t want to duplicate any of the information or techniques contained therein. Once again, I have tried to demonstrate the simplicity of Krav Maga, the concepts and principles upon which it is founded, and the way it reuses and builds on existing techniques and movements, rather than trying to create new ones. Ultimately, this book is about survival. It is not about ego or being right; as the Hebrew Bible states, “It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion.”