Fight for Your Life!: The Secrets of Street Fighting

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Review: It's not hard to adapt the moves in this book to your own skill level. I wouldn't suggest this book unless you have had some martial arts training. ... Anyway, as I said before, if you have not had some martial arts training, I would suggest a book lke 'Dead or Alive' by Geoff Thompson. By the way, the belt thing does work, but I suggest the first thing you do is RUN !

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Summary: Dated and unrealistic - very poor
Review: The title, "The Secrets of Street Fighting - Fight for your life" might suggest that the book is one of the 'reality combat' type books in the genre of Geoff Thompson, Sammy Franco, Peyton Quinn or Marc 'Animal' MacYoung. It is not. The author is either highly naive or deliberately misleading. The techniques could not be further removed from reality and are frankly some of the most stupid responses to attack that I have ever come across. This is dated rubbish, that is useless to anyone from a total beginner to the more advanced fighter.

The book consists of a long list of step by step "he punches, you block, you kick (his FACE(! )) and finish him off" scenarios. The 'secrets' referred to are things such as roundhouse kicks to the head (of a standing opponent, as a pre-emptive strike), a front kick to the throat (again of a standing opponent) followed by a spinning reverse heel kick to the face of the same standing opponent and of course, one of my favorites, the defence to an impending knife attack; "The attacker is threatening you with the knife. Raise your arms as if to give up. When he attacks you anyway, quickly step back and grab your belt and take it off. Using it like a whip, flip the end of the belt into his eyes stunning him and causing him to lose his vision. Now quickly wrap the belt around his neck and choke him unconscious". Need I say more? That excerpt almost reviews itself. Hopefully, no-one in the world would be stupid enough to actually try to implement any of this dangerous nonsense. Avoid like the plague.

Rating:
Summary: ...
Review: The title, "The Secrets of Street Fighting - Fight for your life" might suggest that the book is one of the 'reality combat' type books in the genre of Geoff Thompson, Sammy Franco, Peyton Quinn or Marc 'Animal' MacYoung. It is not. The author is either highly naive or deliberately misleading. The techniques could not be further removed from reality and are frankly some of the most stupid responses to attack that I have ever come across. This is dated rubbish, that is useless to anyone from a total beginner to the more advanced fighter.

The book consists of a long list of step by step "he punches, you block, you kick (his FACE(! )) and finish him off" scenarios. The 'secrets' referred to are things such as roundhouse kicks to the head (of a standing opponent, as a pre-emptive strike), a front kick to the throat (again of a standing opponent) followed by a spinning reverse heel kick to the face of the same standing opponent and of course, one of my favorites, the defence to an impending knife attack; "The attacker is threatening you with the knife. Raise your arms as if to give up. When he attacks you anyway, quickly step back and grab your belt and take it off. Using it like a whip, flip the end of the belt into his eyes stunning him and causing him to lose his vision. Now quickly wrap the belt around his neck and choke him unconscious". Need I say more? That excerpt almost reviews itself. Hopefully, no-one in the world would be stupid enough to actually try to implement any of this dangerous nonsense. Avoid like the plague.