Real World Self-Defense
 | Real World Self-Defense: A Guide to Staying Alive in Dangerous Times author: Jerry Van Cook rating:  asin: 1581600445 binding: Paperback list price: $20.00 USD amazon price: $13.60 USD |
Real World Self-Defense:
… a serious book about a serious topic. And Jerry is the man to write it.
• trained in martial arts
• owner and operator of an Okinawa Go-ju Ryu school
• member Garfield County (OK) Sheriff’s Office first undercover team
• member in the Multi-County Intelligence Unit: drug buys and murder conspiracies
• unarmed combat instructor to various law enforcement agencies, and police and military SWAT teams
• member, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, assigned to the Special Operations Unit
As his friend, renowned trainer and instructor James Keating, writes in the forward:
“In simple east to understand layman’s terms, Real World Self Defense can help the reader understand the vital necessity of a working personal protection system and the correct mind-set for the world of today and beyond.
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Remember, fellow tacticians, the mind is where the battle is always first won or lost, and this book can help to achieve a vital edge through both a physical and intellectual understanding of the dynamics of human conflict.”
Chapter headings:
Part One: Let’s Get Ready to Rumble
1. Attitude: The warrior mind-set is everything
2. When Your Heart Goes Bump in the Night: Psychological and physiological changes during combat
3. Arrested for Staying Alive: legalities and politics in self defense
Part Two: Fight Time
4. Martial Arts: a realistic view
5. Firearms: the ultimate in personal self defense
6. Knives: give yourself and edge
7. Canes, Umbrellas and Other Impact Weapons: sticks and stones may break my bones
8. Nonlethal Weapons and the Overall Defense Package: Keep the pepper spray out of your face
9. Unarmed Combat: simple equals effective
Part Three: Training
10. Training and the Psychological Motivation to Train
11. Martial Arts Schools and Self Defense Classes: the good, the bad and the dangerously stupid
Each topic is discussed in comprehensive detail and easily understood.
And to end, some quotes from his conclusion, page 191:
“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.”
~ Joseph Pulitzer
“In any book, there are things the writer wants, and even feel she needs, to bring out but which never really seem to find their way into the “flow” of the manuscript.
Self-defence–particularly the emotional and psychological aspects–is just too multifaceted to cover in any book, or any number of books…each mental aspect of the warrior mind-set that is conquered opens new doors to new questions that must be contemplated and resolved. ”
“Successfully defending yourself is the result of about 99 percent psychological and emotional preparation and 1 percent training.”
~ Jerry VanCook