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| Knife Fighting: A Practical Course | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Janich
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
Buy New: $11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 126957
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 108
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 0873647408
Dewey Decimal Number: 378
EAN: 9780873647403
ASIN: 0873647408
Publication Date: November 1993
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| Customer Reviews:
 The best for iniciants March 13, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
And the more straight forward aproach to filipino knife combat, no nonsense, right to the point. Recommended.
Great system; very practical January 3, 2005
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book is well written, realistic, and easy to follow. Janich has trained with Special Forces vets, police, and street fighters. He really knows his stuff, cutting through the machismo bovine excrement many authors blather to provide a down to earth, effective approach.
For example, his first piece of advice is to avoid knife fights altogether. As the survivor of a couple such encounters I wholeheartedly agree. Further, he reminds practitioners not to forget other weapons (e.g., hands, feet) and focus solely on the knife. He talks about moral/legal considerations as well as the appropriate defensive mindset. This excellent tome covers all the basics: stance, grip, footwork/mobility, zones of attack/defense, cuts/thrusts, defensive responses, defensive strategies, targets, counter-defenses, and more.
Unfortunately Janich, like many self-defense experts, casually throws out the phrase, "it's better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6." It's only one sentence in an otherwise outstanding tome but I feel obliged to point out that I'm not personally an advocate of that sentiment. I feel that it can trivialize the seriousness of violent confrontations. Never forget that if you are found guilty in a jury trial you will be spending a whole lot of quality time in a confined environment with unpredictable, dangerous neighbors who may be less than friendly as you interact with them. You will also suffer other personal and professional challenges upon release. Janich's point, which I sincerely agree with, is that under no circumstances must you let fear of legal consequences keep you from surviving a violent encounter.
Overall, this really is a great book. I heartily recommend it.
Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction
So good it should be banned.... August 14, 2004
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
First let me say that i have no merits as i knife fighter, and therefore i am not an autorithy on the subject. But i have been teaching the martial arts as Self defense, recreation and sport for the last three years and been a practitioner for more than ten (wich is not a long time). My imression is that the techniques described in this book are very effective in real life, they apear to be simple and straight foreward without any "mombojombo". But what i liked fare better theb the relatively few techniques descibed in this book where all the principles and facts on knife fighting that it provides you with. From a few principles can come a lot of techniques but never the other way around. The book is very thorough in describing everything from proper grip, footwork, defensiv actions, basic thrusts and slashes to how you should best remove your knife from your opponents body to prevent it from getting stuck inside the wound. Alsoe included are usefull drills and training tips to help you get startet and going. The reason i bought this book was actually to improve my own unarmed against a knife self defens, but i soon realized that this book deals only with using a knife to defend yourselfe, and it does so in a great way. Some of the techniques and facts presented within this book is actually scaring, and should be scaring since facing an opponent in a knife fight is extremely dangarous, and shoul be avoidet at al costs, wich is brilliantly pointed out with a photo in the end of the book where the best way to deal with a attacker armed with a knife is actually running away.
Non martial artist review December 8, 2003
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
First, a confession. I am not a martial artist, save a knife fighter. I bought this book for pleasure reading.So, what can I contribute to you the curious martial artists who are considering buying this book? Well, firstly, this book is really a good introduction to knife fighting. While I don't know knife fighting, I know good book when I see one. It is thorough, not too complex, and covers important points. Secondly, this is a good book if you have an overconfident-young-martial-artist-nephew :). It tells you to stay out of knife fighting, and it shows you why. Regards,
Yudha
Straightforward and simple techniques and training. August 26, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Michael Janich is one of the biggest names in this field. He teaches schools that lots of people pay a lot of money to attend. This book provides an introductory overview of his teaching. The methods shown in this book are straightforward and simple. There's not a lot of earth-shattering information in this book but the book does provide a solid and well rounded overview of the topic. I've read several of the older books on knife fighting (W. Cassidy, M. Echanis, etc.) but none have been as useful as this book. The photos are clear and provide a lot of information. The book is formatted well for training. The large 8.5x11 format can lay open so can have the book out for reference use during training. The print is large with lots of white space on each page for easy reading.
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