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Introduction

This isn’t simply a book about Krav Maga, but one that teaches you how to use Krav Maga in real-life situations. There is a huge difference between knowing how to “mechanically” perform a technique and being able to actually get that technique to work during a real-life confrontation. If you don’t understand how violent situations occur and develop, and the situational components that accompany them, it is unlikely that you will be successful in dealing with physical violence, however many techniques you may know. Rather than simply present an encyclopedia of techniques, I have tried to demonstrate what real-world violence looks like and how Krav Maga can be used to deal with it. This is not a book about techniques, but about solutions to violence—which may be non-physical as well as physical. To this end, I have tried to employ not only my firsthand experiences of violence (and those of my contemporaries and colleagues), but also academic research I have been involved in and privy to, along with that which is available in the public domain. I firmly believe that it is important not to limit what you teach to your own experiences, however broad you may believe they are, but to ratify and compare them to those of others, and to that which has been academically proven. Too often, the self-defense and personal-safety industry teaches, and presents, what are merely good ideas and well-intentioned strategies and tactics, which may not have any solid basis in reality.