Defend Yourself 101

Surviving Armed Assaults: A Martial Artists Guide to Weapons, Street Violence, and Countervailing Force author: Lawrence A. Kane rating: asin: 1594390711 binding: Paperback list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $16.47 USD

At over 300 (large format) pages, this tour de force is destined to rise to the top of everyone’s list of: what to buy for a martial artist.

Random Violence Survival Skills covers:
    •    Survival doesn’t mean Fighting!
    •    Awareness Skills
    •    People Skills
    •    Physical Skills for Evasion
    •    Physical Skills for Fighting
    •    Fighting when Surrounded
    •    Fighting on the Ground

101 ways to defend yourself without a gun; by Johnny A. Jenkins. The full essay can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/2ucdc8.

Now right from the git-go I want to say that I don’t know if he wrote the essay or if his friend Sarah wrote it, so I’m not being personal here but just taking a look at the tips presented.

This article considers the following for young adults out looking for fun ( and hopefully older folks too):

Myths Your Parents Told You
Street Myths
Dojo Myths

Real World Self-Defense: A Guide to Staying Alive in Dangerous Times author: Jerry Van Cook rating: asin: 1581600445 binding: Paperback list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $13.60 USD

Real World Self-Defense:
            … a serious book about a serious topic. And Jerry is the man to write it.

Street E & E: Evading, Escaping, and Other Ways to Save Your Ass When Things Get Ugly author: Marc Animal MacYoung rating: asin: 0873647432 binding: Paperback list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $15.60 USD

How many times have you heard someone say, or even said it yourself, “If someone gets nasty with me, I’ll just run away!”

Animal’s writing style is witty, his attitude is sarcastic and he is above all, practical. His website, No Nonsense Self Defense.com is a wonderful resource of good stuff but I got free video! Hah! This book is obviously for the young ones that can still run but even though I am too old to run much, I still have things to teach and this is one of them. Have fun with it.

Hard-Won Wisdom from the School of Hard Knocks: How to Avoid a Fight and Things to Do When You Can't or Don't Want to author: Alain Burrese rating: asin: 0873649052 binding: Paperback list price: $21.00 USD amazon price: $21.00

HARD WON WISDOM from the school of HARD KNOCKS: how to avoid a fight and the things to do when you can’t or don’t want to, by Alain Burrese. Authors Choice Press, 1996. ISBN: 0-595-17422-1

For a book about not fighting, Alain Burrese has filled this with a lot of excellent tips about the how-to’s of physical protection from assault.

As an ex-paratrooper and sniper, a well trained martial artist and gifted motivational speaker, Alain is uniquely qualified to write about the avoidance of violence.

The original lesson:

One would think that a gun beats  a knife every time. With superior weaponry, the fight should be easily won. Sergeant Dennis Tueller, of the Salt Lake City, Utah Police Department, showed that it was not that simple.