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(More customer reviews)I once had a "keyboard warrior" try to convince me that eye gouges don't work. His proof? They've been banned by the UFC. Yeah, dude really wrote that. Clearly some people just don't understand the difference between a sporting competitions and a real fights. Not so these authors. They've been there, done that, and have the scars to prove it. Like the subtitle says, Christensen and Mireles demonstrate vicious strikes, street wrestling, and gouges for real fights. Some of this stuff would get you disqualified (and possibly banned for life) if you tried it in the ring, yet it could mean the difference between life and death on the street.
As usual for these guys, the book is very well laid out. It begins with the nuts and bolts of clinching, then moves on to describe the functional combat stance model, wrestling concepts, outer-perimeter takedowns, close-contact clinch, clothing attacks, striking with the hands, forearms, elbows, shoulders, knees, and legs, pinching, ripping, and pressing, and, finally, head-butting. It is thoughtfully organized and beautifully illustrated (if you consider groin strikes, dislocations, and eye gouges things of beauty anyway). Clear photographs and logical progressions supplemented by pithy text that explains important nuances and critical details make the information easy to follow. It's the next best thing to training with the authors in person
This is a very well written, potentially lifesaving tome that I recommend without reservation.
Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults and Martial Arts Instruction, co-author of The Way of Kata, The Way to Black Belt, and The Little Black Book of Violence
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Brawling doesn't get any closer or uglier than when you're struggling to tear yourself out of a street attacker's clinch. Authors Loren Christensen and Mark Mireles know this from painful experience: with a combined 75 years of martial arts study and more than 40 years of working the mean streets as city cops, they have had many opportunities to develop their techniques for both powerfully breaking a criminal's determined grasp and hanging on to a suspect desperately trying to resist arrest.This book is not about banging around with training partners - it's about surviving a frantic street fight. It's filled with techniques for that gritty place where there are no tap-outs, referees or rules. If it's illegal in competition, it's in here. If it would get you jailed if you weren't legally defending yourself, it's in here.Christensen and Mireles present dozens of tried-and-true clinch escapes using clear, uncomplicated instruction and step-by-step photos. Let these veterans of countless violent street fights give you the edge you need to break out of a dangerous situation.
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