Stressfire, Vol. 1

Gunfighting for Police #1

by Massad Ayoob

Learn how stress and adrenaline affect the mind and body, ruining conventional shooting techniques under pressure... and how new techniques actually feed off that pressure to make you perform better under stress. Learn over 30 techniques, many of them new, for coming out of a stress-shooting situation on top...how to shoot 360 degrees without conscious foot movement...how to most effectively take out a target behind you, even on a stairway... and most important, how to develop mind control and fear control to master high stress-shooting encounters. Stressfire is the only combat shooting method with a flowing, martial arts oriented system of techniques to deal with any armed contingency under stress, yet is the easiest and quickest of the "modern techniques" to master.

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published June 1, 1986

About the author

Massad Ayoob is an internationally known firearms and self-defense instructor. He has taught police techniques and civilian self-defense to both law enforcement officers and private citizens in numerous venues since 1974. Ayoob has appeared as an expert witness in several trials. He has served as a part-time police officer in New Hampshire since 1972 and holds the rank of Captain in the Grantham, New Hampshire police department.

Ayoob has authored several books and more than 1,000 articles on firearms, combat techniques, self-defense, and legal issues, and has served in an editorial capacity for Guns Magazine, American Handgunner, Gun Week, and Combat Handguns. Since 1995, he has written self-defense- and firearms-related articles for Backwoods Home Magazine.

Reviews

[Christian D. D. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't agree with everything that Ayoob teaches, esepcially the short shrift he gives to the Weaver Stance vis-a-vis the Isoscoles. Nonetheless, this was one of the most influential books on weapons handling techniques that I read when I first got into shooting as a teenager in the early 1990s.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very outdated for today. Some good basics but just about any book written in the last 10 years will have more advanced concepts presented. In the 1980's it would have been revolutionary!

[Reepacheep · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is a lot of technical information here. I will probably need to read this book a few more times to absorb everything--at which time I will likely increase my book rating to four or five stars.

The chapters are mostly pretty short and in spite of being fairly technical are easy to read. All subjects that are made to sound complicated with necessarily wordy explanations are simplified with clear, step-by-step photographs.

[Jessica]

Included on The Cornered Cat's good books and the Active Response Training's recommended reading

[Opa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book should be read by anyone who owns a handgun for home or self defense. Ayoob is extremely thorough in his teaching what works and what works well.