Product Details

• Actors: Alain Cohen
• Directors: Alain Cohen
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Bayview Entertainment/Widowmaker
• DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009
• Run Time: 237 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001N4K6K6
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #33,786 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

Krav Maga Personal Protection is a fantastic six DVD set that spans six belt levels (from yellow to black), covering punches, strikes, kicks from the guards, 360-degree defense tactics, gun defenses, improvised weapons, falls, rolls, grab counters, sweeps, throws, chokes, working in the guard, joint locks, knife defenses, kicks, third-party protection, grenade disarms, the Z lock, tai sabaki, police locks, vital-point attacks and real-world scenario simulations. Alain Cohen, former Israeli Defense Forces member and founder of the Israeli Defense System Federation, teaches you the hard-hitting techniques that he s shared with hundreds of security professionals and krav maga instructors worldwide. Get your Black Belt in Krav Maga with this set today!

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Certainly not as "Slick", July 27, 2009

By	Pussywillow "Fuzzbot" (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Krav Maga Personal Protection: The Israeli Method of Close-Quarters Fighting Combat 6 DVD Set (DVD)

If you're looking for movie production quality you'll be disappointed. I on the otherhand was absolutely delighted.

That's actually one of the things that I LIKE about this production. Yes, his accent takes some getting used to but the techniques go far beyond what's covered in the Lavine series. I also think that they are better illustrated & introduce the veiwer to the more combative aspects of Krav Maga as opposed to the glorified Tai Bo that seems to have become the norm. You're not going to be shown how to throw a punch in this video. I would say that it's more of an application based set than techniques. Still... I think that the variety of content has the Levine series beat for those who are looking for something a bit "meatier". (They actualy could compliment each other to a significant degree I suppose.)

While each technique is not detailed to a nauseating level... they are demonstrated well enough that a discerning student of Krav Maga (or any other art) can pick them apart. The lighting is better than that of the Levine production... as it's much less "Hollywood". I purchased the other DVD series long ago & have also acquired some of the Kapap material as well. IMHO there's more to this type of product than the production methods. Cohens strength is in his unique knowledge based on his training of security personnel in Israel & Internationally.

If you enjoy DVD content that goes beyond the basics (giving you more than kickboxing) I think that you'll be very happy with this series. I think it makes a much better companion to student training than the other set.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good DVD series..., January 11, 2010

By	K. W. Forsythe (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Krav Maga Personal Protection: The Israeli Method of Close-Quarters Fighting Combat 6 DVD Set (DVD)

This is a good series of DVDs. It does start from the very beginning, so some of it is very basic punching, kicking, and blocking. But then it moves into some much more advanced techniques, including grappling and weapons. So, it does indeed seem to cover the range of skill levels that it claims to, from yellow to black belt. The techniques seem very reasonable (I hold a black belt in Goju Ryu myself).

The production quality is fine. No bells and whistles, but everything is well lit with a nice, clean, light-colored background in the studio (which helps the visual presentation) and things are shown from a variety of angles.

A number of reviewers have commented on Mr. Cohen's accent. While it is thick, I had no trouble understanding what he was saying. So no problem there.

Mr. Cohen does often blow through some combinations very quickly (too quickly I think). The rewind button on my DVD player got a good workout from me going back several times to figure out what he just did. The DVDs would have been better if more time was taken to break the techniques down in more detail. He does explain what he's doing most of the time, but doesn't really go into the finer details of it. And there were some techniques that he threw in from time to time without ever explaining what they were.

If you have other martial arts training, you can probably follow what he's doing without much difficulty. But if you're a brand new beginner, I think you'll need more explanation of what's going on.

And definitely don't try some of these things at home without additional explanation because some of the moves are quite dangerous. There are some head cranks in there (twisting the head violently to break the neck), a number of joint locks, and some gun disarms.

On the gun disarms, I didn't hear much about gun safety on the DVDs, which concerned me a bit. (I've done some competitive pistol shooting.) Although he was obviously using a dummy gun on the DVDs, he didn't really explain that before jumping into the techniques (NEVER, NEVER do this sort of stuff with a real gun, even if you think it's unloaded). And in executing some of these techniques he didn't really explain the risks of what happens when (not if) the gun goes off in real life (you can't crank a gun around to the side with your opponent's finger on the trigger and expect that it won't go off while trying to wrench it from their hand...even if you don't get hit with the bullet, you're not likely to maintain a grip on the top of a semi-auto when the slide cycles).

I give the series three stars because on the positive side, Mr. Cohen covers a lot of ground and there's a lot of good information there. Because I have other martial arts background, I felt like the series gave me a good orientation into Krav Maga. On the negative side, the verbal explanations of the techniques could have been more thorough, particularly for that part of the audience with no prior background, and particularly for those techniques where inexperienced partners training at home could really hurt themselves or each other without further explanation.

As a side note, I have to say that as the series went on I was feeling more and more sorry for Mr. Cohen's assistant who was the recipient of much of the mayhem in the DVDs. Although Mr. Cohen was obviously pulling his punches in the demos, he was often making at least light contact, and his assistant seemed to get up off the floor a little more slowly after each time.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars NOT SLICK,BUT VERY INFORMATIVE, May 22, 2009

By	DAVID GROESBECK (WEST MONROE,NY.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Krav Maga Personal Protection: The Israeli Method of Close-Quarters Fighting Combat 6 DVD Set (DVD)

Instructor Cohen's 6 DVD series of Krav Maga lacks the professional expertise of format that Darren Levine's now out of production series excelled in. This presentation lacks the instructional reinforcement of material that made Levine's so easy to learn. Also,Instructor Cohen's pronounced Israeli accent takes a bit of getting used to. That said,this series has a lot to offer. Instructor Cohen definitely knows his material.