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The SAS Self-Defense Handbook: A Complete Guide To Unarmed Combat Techniques
Learn how the survival skills of the SAS can help you defend yourself.
Written by a former Survival Instructor of the SAS (Special Air Service - England's equivalent of the United States Special Forces), The SAS Self-Defense Handbook provides easy-to-follow illustrated instructions - for both men and women - on coping with all kinds of threatening situations, from muggings to knife attacks. The author teaches you strategies for both avoiding conflict and getting out of a dangerous situation quickly and safely. Learn how mental attitude, body language, assertiveness, and the ability to overcome fear can prevent you from becoming a prime target for criminals. Learn which body parts are the most effective weapons in fending off an attacker, and which are the most likely targets for attack. Defend yourself from sudden grabs, strangles, weapons, and road rage. And find out how to deliver the SAS five-second knockout, a defense previously available only to British SAS Special Forces soldiers. (71/2 X 91/2, 160 pages, b&w photos, illustrations)
Written by a former Survival Instructor of the SAS (Special Air Service - England's equivalent of the United States Special Forces), The SAS Self-Defense Handbook provides easy-to-follow illustrated instructions - for both men and women - on coping with all kinds of threatening situations, from muggings to knife attacks. The author teaches you strategies for both avoiding conflict and getting out of a dangerous situation quickly and safely. Learn how mental attitude, body language, assertiveness, and the ability to overcome fear can prevent you from becoming a prime target for criminals. Learn which body parts are the most effective weapons in fending off an attacker, and which are the most likely targets for attack. Defend yourself from sudden grabs, strangles, weapons, and road rage. And find out how to deliver the SAS five-second knockout, a defense previously available only to British SAS Special Forces soldiers. (71/2 X 91/2, 160 pages, b&w photos, illustrations)
156 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2000
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May 5, 2019
Knyga apie psichologinius, kovinius veiksmus, padedančius išvengti agresyvių gatvės plėšikų. Verta paskaityti ir žinoti.
January 7, 2009
don't mess with me....
August 9, 2015
I think in combination with some sort of martial arts class(I personally favor Krav Maga), this book has some solid stuff. Worth it just for the bits on situational awareness.
April 5, 2024
It's a very interesting book but dated for something which was supposed to have been revised in 2016 - making sure to take a phone card and change with you in a world where nearly everyone who can carries a mobile phone, and avoiding train compartments which are self enclosed and only open to the outside? Those were outdated when I was a kid, I don't think they've been around since before the turn of the century.
Stuff like that made me knock a star off the rating, however it still has a lot of good tips if you can ignore the parts no longer relevant.
Stuff like that made me knock a star off the rating, however it still has a lot of good tips if you can ignore the parts no longer relevant.
January 23, 2024
A good book for getting into the mindset of self defence, a lot of the examples though would need a lot of practice and would be best to go to a self defence course for it rather than a book.
June 29, 2007
Good techniquesshown here. Re-enforce formal training.
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