Scenarios in Self-Defense

Rating:
Summary: More Than Physical Techniques
Review: Rather than focusing on a single component of self-defense (like prevention tips or karate-like attacks and releases), the primary emphasis here is on ways to minimize problem encounters before things escalate, as taught by self-defense and martial arts experts Mary Brandl and Anita Bendickson.

Reliance on physical moves may mean letting an attacker get close when keeping distance would have been a far safer alternative. The most valuable self-defense tools in this book involve early intervention and de-escalation. The ideas contained in this book have been put to use by thousands of men and women, law enforcement officials and security personnel.

Chapters are: The Psychology of Attacks; Prevention...and Its Limitations; Middle Ground Self-Defense; Physical Resistance; Weapons -- Yours and Theirs; Summing Up; Some Sample Scenarios.