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RUNNER UP--2022, Sports, Best Books Award American Bookfest
The Art and Science of Self Defense Training provides you with a
condensed system of distilled self-defense skills and techniques, each
carefully selected for its reliability in a high stress environment.
Topics include situational awareness, avoidance, and how to take action
should you need to physically defend yourself.
Martial arts, combat sports, and self-defense are different realms;
although interconnected they are not entirely the same. -- This book can
help bridge that gap.
This curriculum is streamlined and divided into nine logical stages of
training that allows both martial artists and those with no formal
fighting experience to quickly and methodically learn and develop
reliable skills for self-defense.
While training in the martial arts or competitive combat sports can aid
you in a self-defense situation, it does not prepare you for those
aspects that are unique to actual self-defense.
The book begins with the basics, upon which everything else relies -
awareness, avoidance, and anticipation skills - before moving on to
building a reliable arsenal of self-defense techniques. You will
progress through a series of carefully selected actions for high stress
situations.
The aim of this curriculum is to improve confidence and skills in a
structured and logical way.
Topics include
- Awareness skills including situational, spatial, and environmental
- Avoidance skills to deal with fear, escape, and de-escalation
- Anticipation skills for being approached, posturing, and reading body
language
- Action arsenal including targeting, striking, yelling, evading, and
countering
- Advanced arsenals for dealing with ground fighting, weapons, and
multiple attackers
Whether you are just starting out, or have been practicing martial arts
for years, there are important self-defense skills for everyone in this
book.
