Carsten Draheim - Krav Maga. A Comprehensive Guide for Individuals, Security, Law Enforcement and Armed Forces

Carsten Draheim

Krav Maga

A Comprehensive Guide for Individuals, Security, Law Enforcement and Armed Forces

Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd.

Original title: Krav Maga. Effektive Selbstverteidigung, Meyer & Meyer, Aachen, 2015

Translated by: AAA Translation, St. Louis, Missouri

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Krav Maga

Maidenhead: Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd., 2017

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H. Hoffmann (2008) Feuerkampf & Taktik: Taktischer Schusswaffengebrauch im 21. Jahrhundert. Blaufelder: dwj-Verlags GmbH

J. Cooper (1989) Principles of Self-Defense, Boulder, CO, Paladin Press

Source: Study in Germany on the subject Violence against police officers, Dec., 2, 2013

This book was carefully researched. However, all information is supplied without liability. Neither the authors nor the publisher will be liable for possible disadvantages or damagesresulting from this book.

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I would like to thank my family for their endless support in all my activities, and especially with this book!

Many thanks to my friend and mentor Tamir Gilad and to Nick Hein for their valuable training and support. Special thanks also to Heidi Ptz, without whom this book would not have been produced, as well as Mike Diehl for his valuable input, and to my training team and the students at the Krav Maga Institute!

Regards,

Carsten

Carstens book decrypts the system of Krav Maga and gives hereby great tips for instruction to which I agree wholeheartedly. Every single page I have read, gave me a great pleasure. Carsten describes the in fact quite complex teaching in the most understandable way. Like that people can learn how to react in worst case scenario real life self-defense situations namely an attack on ones own life or the life of their loved ones.

Krav Maga is based on natural reflexes and reactions. But how can you provoke them in lessons? What makes a good instructor? One of the best instructors I know gives answers in this book, especially as Krav Maga builds up on learning success and self-defense lessons.

As the head of a Krav Maga Testing Committee, I travel around the world to teach instructors and ensure the quality of Krav Maga. That was where I met Carsten Draheim in 2010, giving a Civil Instructor Course. I was amazed by his hospitality, his positive energy and the way he trains and teaches Krav Maga: Always with a smile on his face. He loves to do it and he lives it. Starting with a small Krav Maga club, Carsten owns the biggest Krav Maga school in Europe with 1,700 members today.

He knows how to empower people by making the problems they can face in self-defense situations salient. Thereby he is not only focused on the techniques, but on the solution. Furthermore, Carsten, one of the best instructors out there, trains the German armed forces, and other special units from the police where he was able to gain even more expertise in the military and law enforcement field of Krav Maga.

Born in Haifa, Israel, I served in the artillery regiment of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), where I was also in charge of a unit of seventy soldiers. That was where I first got in touch with Krav Maga and with Eyal Yanilov in 1987. Today I am an Expert Level 5 Instructor, the highest Krav Maga level possible, and I operate internationally to build up Krav Maga instructors on every possible level and with civil, law enforcement and military backgrounds.

Before my time in the IDF I used to train different types of Mixed Martial Arts, like Muay Thai, with the former Israeli champion Rany Kaushinsky. As a firearms instructor I have also worked with top shooting instructors and elite security professionals in Israel. My purpose is to groom Krav Maga experts worldwide.

For that vision, it is of importance to raise awareness of the spirit and mindset of Krav Maga. Carstens education in the civil, kids, law enforcement, SWAT and military sector contributes to that. His book takes it one step further by promoting what Krav Maga actually is and as it gives a proper introduction to the system, we do not just teach, but live. Carsten is not only one of my students, he became a really good and close friend. Whenever we have time, we train together.

I wish him much success with this book and you, as the reader, a lot of input for your own Krav Maga lessons and your own Krav Maga trainings. So that you can understand and live the Krav Maga slogan and our vision in the end: So one may walk in peace.

As soon as I start thinking about self-defense, I feel two things: fascination about the craftsmanship that makes it possible to escape an extreme-situation unharmed, and the mastering of that situation. As a former policeman, I appreciate those skills and abilities. On the other hand, I have recognized that self-defense is kind of a fad nowadays and that there are some charlatans between the solid schools. Those figured out that you can make money with insecurity and fear of the people. Particularly young men are boosted by nothing more than the basic instinct of being strong. Being a macho is the foundation of the DNA of the man in general and I am allowed to say so, as I dedicated nearly all of my life being a macho.

I am Nick Hein, 32 years old, a husband and father. I experienced the street as a former Police Marshal, but I am actually a so called gym kid. When I was six I discovered my love for Judo. Back then I was driven by the will of being the strongest child in the world. As senseless as that drive might sound for many, I had an end in mind. That one propelled me through the double burden of the high performance sports and my A levels. I wanted to become the Judo world champion and my future as well as my job choice were driven by that. After years in the national Judo team with lots of national and international trophies (German/European champion, World Cup placing) and some turns in my personal life, I had a new goal. A more extreme one: Mixed Martial Arts, or better known as Free Fighting or Cage Fighting. Meanwhile I quit my job as a Marshal after 11 years and resigned from the secure lifetime official state job and casted all security to the winds for fighting in the Octagon all over the world, i.e. in the UFC, the Ultimate Fighting Championship.