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Stick Fighting: Self-Defense
The defensive techniques shown here are both easy to learn and stress protection over vicious counter-violence.
Tegner's method utilizes articles which are widely available and are commonly carried by many people.
Special sections include self-defense for the blind, self-defense for the disabled, and a section of baton techniques for security officers.
Tegner's method utilizes articles which are widely available and are commonly carried by many people.
Special sections include self-defense for the blind, self-defense for the disabled, and a section of baton techniques for security officers.
127 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 1982
About the author
Bruce Tegner
131 books5 followersBruce Tegner is a specialist in self-defense and sport forms of weaponless fighting. He is regarded to had been one of America's outstanding authority, teacher and innovator in this field.
He was, literally, born to the teaching of unarmed fighting skills; both his parents were professional teachers of judo and jiu-jitsu and they began to train him when he was two years old. Until he was eight years old, his mother and father taught him fundamentals; after that, he was instructed by Oriental and European experts.
In a field where most individuals study only one phase of work, Mr. Tegner's background is unusual. His education covered many aspects of the various kinds of weaponless fighting and included instruction in sword and stick fighting, as well. Before he gave up competitive judo, he became the California state judo champion. He holds black belts in judo and karate.
Altough Bruce Tegner was trained in the traditional style of karate, he introduced innovations and modernizations as soon as he began to teach. He separated and distinguished between sport and self-defense aspects of karate; he changed the method of teaching and he made both self-defense and sport karate more appropriate for present day use.
He was, literally, born to the teaching of unarmed fighting skills; both his parents were professional teachers of judo and jiu-jitsu and they began to train him when he was two years old. Until he was eight years old, his mother and father taught him fundamentals; after that, he was instructed by Oriental and European experts.
In a field where most individuals study only one phase of work, Mr. Tegner's background is unusual. His education covered many aspects of the various kinds of weaponless fighting and included instruction in sword and stick fighting, as well. Before he gave up competitive judo, he became the California state judo champion. He holds black belts in judo and karate.
Altough Bruce Tegner was trained in the traditional style of karate, he introduced innovations and modernizations as soon as he began to teach. He separated and distinguished between sport and self-defense aspects of karate; he changed the method of teaching and he made both self-defense and sport karate more appropriate for present day use.
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December 17, 2018
If you have absolutely no knowledge how to defend yourself then sure read this book. If you have even rudimentary training skip it.
November 4, 2016
Tegner's scenarios are implausible and his application and execution sloppy. During one defense technique Tegner is bent backward and off balance to an extreme degree, defending against an attack few ne'er do wells would ever make.
He makes absolute statements about the efficacy of these techniques that don't bear up to a rational analysis. He teaches defenses with a crutch that are absolutely ridiculous. One section has the use of the quarter staff versus the quarter staff...just in case you should be assaulted by a large man nicknamed "Little John" thus armed with one, I guess.
To be generous, there are some valid applications here--maybe a handful--but the reader would be better served using more modern sources for a reference. This is a terrible book.
I sort of feel bad for Tegner. He was supposedly booed at tournaments because of his books. I see why. He published these in an era where such stuff didn't pass muster. Had he published these in the forties or fifties, they would have been lauded. His technique isn't much worse than other works from that era. By the seventies, though, a higher standard had been achieved, and Tegner was a walking anachronism.
He makes absolute statements about the efficacy of these techniques that don't bear up to a rational analysis. He teaches defenses with a crutch that are absolutely ridiculous. One section has the use of the quarter staff versus the quarter staff...just in case you should be assaulted by a large man nicknamed "Little John" thus armed with one, I guess.
To be generous, there are some valid applications here--maybe a handful--but the reader would be better served using more modern sources for a reference. This is a terrible book.
I sort of feel bad for Tegner. He was supposedly booed at tournaments because of his books. I see why. He published these in an era where such stuff didn't pass muster. Had he published these in the forties or fifties, they would have been lauded. His technique isn't much worse than other works from that era. By the seventies, though, a higher standard had been achieved, and Tegner was a walking anachronism.
July 25, 2011
The ultimate fun, inexpensive rainy-day activity. :-)
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