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| Get Tough | 
 enlarge | Author: W.e. Fairbairn
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 142126
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0873640020
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780873640022
ASIN: 0873640020
Publication Date: December 1996
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| Customer Reviews:
 If it bleeds, you can kill it. June 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The neatest thing in this book is the diagram that shows you where to cut an adversary with a knife, and an accompaning chart that shows how many minutes, or seconds, it takes for your victim to become unconscience, and how long to die. They show the Sykes/Fairbairn designed dagger, variations, or copies, or originals of which are readily available.
I don't like martial arts, most of which are based upon oriental practice. Why spend years trying to learn the complicated throws, blocks and strikes developed by overly cranial orientals? And it is often worthless on the street, anyway. Instead, kick a guy in the balls, poke your fingers in his eyes, and then grab your knife and cut his whatchamacallit artery, and give him two minutes to bleed to death.
You should also read some of the more modern CQC books, after your read this one.
Don't let them seize your testicles July 18, 2006
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
I found this book to be absolutely hilarious. I haven't done an official count, but I'm fairly certain that more than half of the techniques mention the word "testicles". Statements such as "knee or kick your opponent in the testicles," "seize your opponent's testicles," and "if your opponent attempts to seize your testicles..." abound. The techniques described in this book are so ruthless and cruel, that I couldn't keep myself from laughing (which I understand might be considered an odd reaction, but I bet you laugh too). I think my favorite was the one starting with "Your opponent is lying on the ground..." simply because I typically don't feel all that threatened by an opponent who is lying on the ground. On the other hand, he might just be waiting for me to turn my back, so it's a good thing that this technique "will almost certainly kill him." I highly recommend this book for the comic value alone. If you get some useful self-defense skills out of the deal (and you probably will), well that's just gravy.
Note: The quotes are from memory and as such may not be exact. I have tried to be as precise as possible without actually expending the effort to go downstairs and grab the book.
yes, its a self defence book February 24, 2006
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
this is a good self defence book. it wont teach you the casics like hwo to get properly balanced or how to throw a proper punch, but it teaches many valuable things. it give shrot, but easy to read direction, and it has illistrations on the opposite page. it teaches things from the chin jab, to holds, to throws and such, then talks a small bit about knife and has stuff like how to tie up evemies (as this is a copy of fairbain's manuel for the military) all in all, a good book to pick up.
 Classic, for good reason February 8, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
From the start: yes, only three stars.
The shortcomings:
-The illustrations are only 'OK', not great. I like line drawings for illustrating unarmed combat, but usually it takes two or three drawings per technique to make things clear.
-A limited range of techniques. It covers the basics pretty well, but doesn't challenge the imagination.
-A lot of military texts (like this) were grouped as lesson plans. It wouldn't have been hard to do, but Fairbairn chose not to do it.
-One or two of the techniques don't stand up well to critical thought, most notably the one with a matchbox in one's hand. Only OK as a technique, but it is very easy for students to fixate on the matchbox rather than the principles of the technique.
Ultimately, the poor illustrations was the killer for me. Never the less, this book has a lot of merit;
-A limited range of techniques... Yes, this is also a shortcoming, but on the other hand it keeps the students focused on what matters.
-Clear and explicit text. This one is not going to win literary awards, but it conveys information clearly, completely, and concisely.
-'Been there, done that' credibility. Fairbairn was not a streetfront studio expert, nor was he a competition kickboxer, nor even a UFC wrestler. He had been a cop in one of the toughest cities in the world, and then trained British commandos in WWII. If the techniques didn't work, his trainees would have gotten really vindictive (if they lived). His trainees lived, and that alone is about the highest recommendation you could hope for.
Three stars, but it has a place in my permanant collection, take this as you will.
Page for Page: best self-defense & hand to hand book I read November 21, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This little gem is only 121 pages long and mostly illustrations at that. You can read it and become familiar with the techniques shown in an evening. Try them with a friend for an hour four or five weeks in a row, and you'll be able to pull them off pretty well.
Fairbairn streamlined his system to teach to commandos, paratroopers and spies before they deployed in World War II and only had a few hours to teach them.
This book is a valuable resource for someone who wants to learn self-defense today and it has an interesting history too.
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