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Blowjob Lessons · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: Self Defence Books

A lot of strategic skills can be taught effectively through books. We can learn concepts for fear management, deterrence, avoidance, target denial, etc. and the nice thing is, you can tell me the name of a book and if I buy it, I'll get the exact same content, even though I live on the other side of the world.

Now I know the google ads are not directly affiliated with SDZ, but there was one link to a site, "OpSecIntel" that advertised a book--apparently self-published--which looks to me like total crap. For instance, it contains the statement:

"A criminals target acquisition, although sometimes based on spontaneity induced through desperation, is often a complex one that needs to be addressed. Criminals are not always the intellectually disabled losers that societal misconceptions have cultivated, nor should they be written off as suffering from a cerebral short form."

(A "cerebral short form"? Societal misconceptions that cultivate intellectually disabled losers? Wow, I have a Masters degree in psychology and I've never heard of these things! Must be super-advanced stuff!)

Advice to Stephan Kurr: Learn to speak English, buddy. If this guy was really in military intelligence and referred to as "one of the best", I wanna stay the heck away from the service branch he was involved in.

Obviously the classic for North Americans is Gavin DeBecker's Gift of Fear. I also enjoyed his book, Protecting the Gift but didn't touch his terrorism stuff because admittedly, I am just not interested in that stuff.

My personal favourite is Strong On Defense by Sanford Strong, and I recomend it to everyone.

I also liked Defensive Living by Bo Hardy.

What are the "must reads" of self-defence in your view?
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Blowjob Lessons · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:10 pm Post subject:

Fifty views and not one response? That's pretty freakin' sad.

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ash_wednesday · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject:

I don't really have any books on self defense nor have I read any. I do have a couple of books on kickboxing. Actualy the magizne Black Belt are good reading material for self defense.
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Blowjob Lessons · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:24 pm Post subject:

Black Belt does have some good stuff. It's where I discovered Jim Wagner. I know you're big into KB, but to me, the value of books is more to understand the abstract, big-picture stuff, like what DeBecker and Strong have done. Check it out, it'll embiggen the mind. Very Happy

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scholar warrior · Newbie Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Florida

I own and collect just about any type of martial arts books. I have some very old books. I started collecting and reading them because of my interest in Bruce Lee back in the 70's. I used to read the old comic/graphic novel series, "Deadly Hands of Kung Fu", when I was a kid and that got me started. I find that I own more books on martial arts than most chain book stores carry on their shelves. I have been involved in martial arts in one way or another, one style or another, since I was 12, I'm 44 now. I guess it is my first and most steady hobby, my second is with practical "user" knives.

Blowjob Lessons · Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject:

I stopped collecting martial arts books when I started realizing how useless they were to me, since most of the stuff taught in MA, generally speaking, is crap. I have a couple shelves full which I probably would never sell, and stacks of old magazines. But I would never train from or do any of the stuff in them. There's only a couple on Brazilian Jujitsu or MMA that I ever use. The rest have only sentimental or academic value.
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kikr · Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject:

Any of Massad Ayoob's books. Specifically for this forum "the Truth about Self Protection"
Col. Jeff Coopers Principles of Personal Protection"
The before mentioned books by DeBecker.
Robert Coram "Boyd"

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Tuco · Registered User Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 57

Recently got a blackbelt edition book titled "Combatives for Street Survival:Hardcore Countermeasures for Street Situations". Very simple techniques, no nonsense. Cuts to the core. He says combatives are what you do to someone, not with someone. That is the difference between combatives and martial arts.
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Hertao · Newbie Joined: 01 Apr 2010 Posts: 2 Location: New Orleans

I've been collecting self defense and martial arts books for the past 20 years. I do agree with you that a lot can be learned from a book. However, in my experience most books are lacking either realistic techniques, training methods, and/or strategies, or they only cover a limited part of self defense. Unfortunately beginners and some advanced students don't realize this until it's too late.

I've published my own self defense ebook, and although I may be biased, I do think it's a must read for anyone interested in self defense. If you're interested, here's a link:

http://www.hertao.com/selfdefense/self-defense-ebook
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Tuco · Registered User Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 57

I agree. Books are nothing more than a supplement to augment to what I already learned from formal training.
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Tuco · Registered User Joined: 30 Mar 2010 Posts: 57

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