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| Dirty Dozen: 12 Nasty Fighting Techniques For Any Self-Defense Situation | 
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| Creator: Larry Jordan
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
Buy New: $11.98
You Save: $8.02 (40%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 26611
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.3
ISBN: 1581603177
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781581603170
ASIN: 1581603177
Publication Date: May 2002
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Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.
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| Customer Reviews:
 dirty dozen: 12 nasty fighting techiques for any self-defense situation May 18, 2007
outstanding book for basic quick self defense.
Essential Basics March 9, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
In a real-life defense situation, knowing a few basic techniques really well will prove much more valuable than knowing vast amounts of techniques marginally well. In other words...keep it simple stupid (KISS) philosophy. For example...no high kicks, thus eliminating the possibility of being knocked over/off balance. No fist punching (in boxing, even with gloves on, the majority of injuries are to the puncher's own fist.) For people who do not train in specialized manners to break down and toughen hand bones, its not practical to punch using boxing type punches to the head in a street fight....fingers break very very easily. Another common theme in this book is the concept of holding while hitting. The average person without much specialized training, will have trouble generating serious power from the ground (as highly trained boxers do by pushing off on their feet.) Also, many people will not put sufficient snap/recoil in their punches...which makes the power of you punch dissapate into something of a push, as your attacker rolls with ths punch. However, by holding and hitting, it is quite easy to double the power of a blow, even by somone with marginal experience. Any advanced martial artist can probably find some flaws with these techniques...(for example, straightening your arm while trying to push someone off you can result in an arm breaking armbar), however, for 99% of people in real life situations, these basic, nearly common sense techniques would put them at a serious advantage...and someone truly fluent in them, who has trained perhaps 30 min a day for a couple years on just these 12 moves, they'd probably outfight a very high percentage of physically equal black belt opponents. In summation. KISS.
 How to get yourself hurt February 4, 2007
3 out of 28 found this review helpful
This book is a guide to getting yourself hurt. Some things make sense, but if attcked by a drugged and/or strong attacker, these techniques will not do any good. There are much better books out there for your security.
 review of "dirty dozen" self defense November 4, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I would say the book is helpfull on the getting back to basics of self-defense.
It does not contain rocket science, but is very realistic,in My opinion.
It is basically a "hit-hard" and get away type of system,it is not about the sparring type of "martial arts".
I think even the experianced fighter will find something helpfull in this book.
Simple is best September 7, 2006
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I got this book several months ago and it could have saved me many years of looking for self-defense instruction that was worth anything. It is very simple, and in a real adrenaline situation, that is all you will have time for. Don't waste years learning 100's of throws and wrist-locks...they WILL GET YOU KILLED in today's world. There is a reason dogs and tigers go for the throat....
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