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Attack Proof: The Ultimate Guide to Personal Protection

Attack Proof: The Ultimate Guide to Personal Protection

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: MARTIAL ART OR SELF DEFENSE?
Review: OK, I read this and worked the drills. After training in various martial arts including karate, ju jitsu, hapkido, and tai chi, for over 25 years I found these guys out. The book ATTACK PROOF is really a disguise for a formidable martial art. They tell you that the KI Chuan Do is the grease that will make your martial arts work better. This I found is true. I also discovered that Ki Chuan Do can stand alone as a martial art. I did some background checking and called a couple of my marine buddies who told me that they trained with one of their instructors and they said that the Attack Proof instructors refer to themselves with a trade marked label, Martial Realists. The information in this book will not only keep you alive when the dung hits the fan but I found the exercises to really strengthen many of the attributes that my traditional training tries to teach but just misses the mark. I work in law enforcement and have used some of the sensitivity and balance principles to great effect. The end result of these incidents was less report writing because I did not have to resort to more violent means to take down some attackers. One of these attackers had several years of groundfighting training. After less than 2 seconds I left him on the ground. No I did not have to use my baton, just my hands. These Attack Proof guys are either sneeky or just smart by presenting their book as the Ultimate guide to personal protection while, in essence, it should be called a book on a new martial art. Don't be fooled this is a serious martial art. You can check out Attackproof.com and see what you think. Good luck, A Happy ...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Serious Self Defense Minus the Choreography. This Is Real!
Review: The “O.J. Defense” notwithstanding, violent confrontations, with or without weapons, are over in seconds. If you are the intended victim, your response must be immediate -- pre-emptive – to have any chance of succeeding. The popular forms of martial arts, while often good sport and exercise, require many years of training to have any effect. Even then, in the split-seconds available to counter an attack, you are at risk of not engaging the precise choreography required to counter a specific choreographed move by the attacker. More to the point, your attacker probably doesn’t know the particular ballet you learned. Under the influence of psychosis, too much (or not enough) drugs, or the adrenaline rush of committing an armed robbery, the bad guy will be coming at you in a chaotic, unpredictable way.

I was first told of John Perkins' methods by two retired, high-ranking Yonkers, New York cops who had worked with him. His legendary prowess in violent confrontations was matched by his skill as a forensics homicide investigator. This, combined with a lifetime of traditional oriental martial arts and Native-American ground fighting studies, led to the evolution of a system that is stunning in its simplicity. Perkins may not be the first proponent of “attack the attacker,” but he sure does have a knack for teaching it. Starting with basic awareness, this book brings home the concepts of balance, looseness, and a system that he refers to as “guided chaos.”

It is liberally illustrated with sequential photographs of the basic moves (not orchestrated dance-steps) and practice drills that prepare you to act instantly in dangerous situations. There are helpful pointers throughout. Sidebar accounts of actual violent confrontations make this much more enjoyable than just an excellent textbook, although it certainly is that also.

Disclosure: After reading, enjoying, and gaining confidence from “Attack Proof, the Ultimate Guide to Personal Protection,” this reviewer, a fifties-something, financial services executive, found that Master Perkins teaches classes in the next county and signed up. Can a “disciple” be an honest reviewer? You bet! Perkins’ methods simplify what you must know to deal with violent confrontations. (...) This stuff works.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Real Self Defense for Real Life
Review: This book is a terrific source for learning real life self defense. It presents, explains and illustrates - in a clear, straight forward manner - how people can avoid becoming a victim, as well as how to successfully defend against virtually any kind of physical attack. It is based on the principles of Ki Chuan Do, the martial art that was created by John Perkins.

I attended a seminar by Master Perkins and his colleagues several months ago, and I was astounded by the effectiveness of Ki Chuan Do in action. The ease and speed with which Perkins - along with several of his students - made short shrift of various attackers, was simply amazing. These were not rehearsed or choreographed "plants", as I was later able to verify, but actual volunteers from the audience, some of whom were advanced black belts in different martial arts.

I have trained as a kick boxer for a couple of years in a Tai Chi school that has a reputation for turning out good kick boxers. But seeing Ki Chuan Do was a revelation. It is based to a large extent on Tai Chi prinicples, but it is COMBAT Tai Chi combined with various other combat arts, and is light years ahead of anything that I had seen or experienced before - either in Tai Chi or any other martial art.

The Attack Proof book takes the basic principles of Ki Chuan Do and explains how they can be used effectively by anyone, regardless of their physical condition or experience. A great companion to this book would be the Attack Proof video, available at attackproof.com.

There are loads of methods being taught out there for people who want to learn how to defend themselves against attacks in a dojo. But if you want to learn how to defend yourself against attacks in real life, I highly endorse this book.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great For A Beginner
Review: This book is great for someone who is helpless, but a boxer or black belt wouldn't benefit...It doesn't have "kill moves" or many locking moves...It has great exercises to do if u have the equipment, but otherwise, it is full of crap on self defense.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: use the book to fight with it's better
Review: This book was BORING<BORING<BORING!!!!!!!!
This book was not a good read at all.
IT did not have nearly enough pictures to show how to execute each move properly and talked ALOT about worthless nonsense nobody needs to know or really would remember in a real fight!!
Show people how to defend themselves in areal fight , Not try to learn the mind set of a violent offerder
This is a clear example that any idiot can "RITE" abook!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: EASY, EFFECTIVE & EXPLOSIVE
Review: This was a good book, but by no means is it intended for beginners! A lot of complex esoteric stuff like advanced methods for raising and directing energy. The techniques are sound, but will need to be practiced over and over again -- with training partners -- in order to have any hope of being effective. I would not recommend this book unless you are already well-versed in the fundamentals of a soft style like Aikido, Wing Chung, or Taijiquan. Harder styles like Hapkido, Ju Jitsu, and Tang Soo Do also can be applied to the methods endorsed in this book. A clueless citizen looking for a "self defense" book would be completely lost. Very advanced concepts.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AN "INTRODUCTORY" TEXT!!!
Review: This was a good book, but by no means is it intended for beginners! A lot of complex esoteric stuff like advanced methods for raising and directing energy. The techniques are sound, but will need to be practiced over and over again -- with training partners -- in order to have any hope of being effective. I would not recommend this book unless you are already well-versed in the fundamentals of a soft style like Aikido, Wing Chung, or Taijiquan. Harder styles like Hapkido, Ju Jitsu, and Tang Soo Do also can be applied to the methods endorsed in this book. A clueless citizen looking for a "self defense" book would be completely lost. Very advanced concepts.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: learning, learning, always learning
Review: When I first flipped through this book I thought the authors were a bit on the goofy size. Those of you that have looked at it know what I'm talking about when it comes to some of the exercises in the book. But I tried them (anywhere strikes and balancing drills) and I can't believe the improvement I've made. When I'm sparring, things that I didn't know I didn't know keep popping up. I'ts an excellent book, but not one to read through and throw back on the shelf. This is one you half to practice with to get.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Complicated simplicity
Review: With little background in martial art, I believe I am not the right person to judge whether or not the concept described here is really work in real combat situation. But I can tell you how this book impacted me as reader.

While talking about the simple no-nonse way of surviving a fight, this book is difficult. I need to re-read most of the chapters (even pages) many times, and still get confused. And it does not have enough pictures to illustrate the concepts explained there. I need to consult some friends, black belts in their own respective martial arts, to gain some understanding.

From what they explained to me, this is a great martial art book (they borrowed it for few weeks and I understand that they practice it in their schools). It contained many sophisticated concepts from various martial arts like Wing Chun, Tai Chi, Aikido and those I never heard about... It is a great book to learn about real martial art or to uncover some "hidden" concept behind traditional practices.

However, in my opinion, newbie like me will need advice from experts since this book is far too difficult. So, I would recommend this book only if you have good background in martial art, or have a "master" to supervise your training. Also, you will need some equipment and equally committed partner(s) to practice some important drills.

Overall, great book, but it requires commitment. Not an easy how-to book.


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