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Professional'S Guide To Ending Violence Quickly : How Bouncers, Bodyguards, And Other Security Professionals Handle Ugly Situations

Professional'S Guide To Ending Violence Quickly : How Bouncers, Bodyguards, And Other Security Professionals Handle Ugly Situations

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Excellent social psychology, but...
Review: The best and most valuable thing this book provides, like much of McYoung's writing, is insight into the psychology of people who provoke and/or engage in streetfights. In this respect, his books fill a unique niche. His actual self-defense instruction is sketchy, with very few clear illustrations.

The downside: you do have to plow through the author's testosterone-induced rambling and often blustering prose, which is usually entertaining but at times a little tiring.

Still not as good as Geoff Thompson's books on street survival, though.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Excellent social psychology, but...
Review: The best and most valuable thing this book provides, like much of McYoung's writing, is insight into the psychology of people who provoke and/or engage in streetfights. In this respect, his books fill a unique niche. His actual self-defense instruction is sketchy, with very few clear illustrations.

The downside: you do have to plow through the author's testosterone-induced rambling and often blustering prose, which is usually entertaining but at times a little tiring.

Still not as good as Geoff Thompson's books on street survival, though.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Generally good information
Review: The real value in this book is the insight the author gives regarding the psyche of the would be toughs one is likely to encounter in your average beer joint saloon.

Many of the martial techniques are questionable, although the principles seem sound. There was a good bit of emphasis on bouncing attackers off of the ground. This only works on some people. However, I have been surprised myself at some of the people a good hard throw takes the fight out of. To be fair, the author does not present this as a "be all, end all" technique. There just seemed to be a lot of emphasis on it.

Over all, this book was worth the money.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Clear, real and practical information of Self Defense
Review: This book is a must for anyone interested in self defense. Regardless whether you are a security professional or not. This book teaches you how to end a fight quickly and effectively. Animal Mac Young, covers everything from physical as well as psychological aspects of a fight, and the best way to do it, if possible "legally" which I think is an important aspect, most other books overlook. You can tell the man writes from personal experience and this helps you grasp the whole concept of the book better. Also the language he uses is great and it makes reading the book even more fun. Like everything you read in this subject, YOU must go out there and try to practice the techniques on a regular basis, if you do though, the info on this book might one day save your life.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Give it a miss
Review: This book is filled with lot's of 'hunko-macho' street talk. Too much descriptons of 'Rambo-hero' scenerios. This is definitely NOT a step-by-step instruction manual with accompanying illustrations. Read other authors if you are looking for more serious stuffs.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A MUST-READ for security professionals.
Review: This book is one of the most useful materials I have come across in the field. Don't bother buying martial arts manuals...the techniques in this book will let you overcome almost anyone regardless of size or experience (on their part) by remembering a few simple ideas. Trust me...I've used them!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Cop's best friend!
Review: This book should be required reading at every Police Academy in the United States. As a Police Officer in Atlanta, I've used information found in this book to de-escalate bad situations and if diplomacy didn't work to put the bad guy down quick. Every Cop who wants to go home at the end of his shift should invest in this book. Marc Macyoung has been there and done that, let his experience, not theories, get you home safe.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I actually liked it.
Review: Well, I have to admit that I liked this book, even though I still think the author plays "tough guy" too often. This book was valuable because, largely, of two things: it's breakdown of psychology of troublemakers; it's explaination of the principles behind trips and sweeps. The basis of this book was how to handle a violent situation without resorting to extreme force, and in that regard I think it succeeded. MacYoung explains the different kinds of social violence a person may have to deal with, going into stuff like ego games and how to handle different kinds of attitudes before they turn violent. He also goes into an admitedly lazy way of taking a guy down, invovling shoulder and hip bumps, with lots of trips thrown in too. He actually has some very valuable information on avoiding blows, redirecting energy, and the propper way to kick someone's feet out from under them. I also found the appendix on "Murphy's Laws" pretty amusing. Downsides to the book are crude drawings, and the ultra-macho attitude the author exudes in all of his books. Still, the info in this book is eye-opening, so I'd recomend it for the takedown and/or psych text.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I actually liked it.
Review: Well, I have to admit that I liked this book, even though I still think the author plays "tough guy" too often. This book was valuable because, largely, of two things: it's breakdown of psychology of troublemakers; it's explaination of the principles behind trips and sweeps. The basis of this book was how to handle a violent situation without resorting to extreme force, and in that regard I think it succeeded. MacYoung explains the different kinds of social violence a person may have to deal with, going into stuff like ego games and how to handle different kinds of attitudes before they turn violent. He also goes into an admitedly lazy way of taking a guy down, invovling shoulder and hip bumps, with lots of trips thrown in too. He actually has some very valuable information on avoiding blows, redirecting energy, and the propper way to kick someone's feet out from under them. I also found the appendix on "Murphy's Laws" pretty amusing. Downsides to the book are crude drawings, and the ultra-macho attitude the author exudes in all of his books. Still, the info in this book is eye-opening, so I'd recomend it for the takedown and/or psych text.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I actually liked it.
Review: Well, I have to admit that I liked this book, even though I still think the author plays "tough guy" too often. This book was valuable because, largely, of two things: it's breakdown of psychology of troublemakers; it's explaination of the principles behind trips and sweeps. The basis of this book was how to handle a violent situation without resorting to extreme force, and in that regard I think it succeeded. MacYoung explains the different kinds of social violence a person may have to deal with, going into stuff like ego games and how to handle different kinds of attitudes before they turn violent. He also goes into an admitedly lazy way of taking a guy down, invovling shoulder and hip bumps, with lots of trips thrown in too. He actually has some very valuable information on avoiding blows, redirecting energy, and the propper way to kick someone's feet out from under them. I also found the appendix on "Murphy's Laws" pretty amusing. Downsides to the book are crude drawings, and the ultra-macho attitude the author exudes in all of his books. Still, the info in this book is eye-opening, so I'd recomend it for the takedown and/or psych text.


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