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| Surviving Armed Assaults: A Martial Artists Guide to Weapons, Street Violence, and Countervailing Force | 
 enlarge | Author: Lawrence A. Kane
Creator: Loren W. Christensen
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 90667
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 1594390711
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.66
EAN: 9781594390715
ASIN: 1594390711
Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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Condition: Ships immediately! Perfect and New! 2006 Paperback.
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| Customer Reviews:
Must Read October 12, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Tactics, training and mindset are all discussed; and all of this is presented in a simple and logical format with great anecdotes to illustrate the high points. This is a must read.
- Dr. Jeff Cooper, Medical Director, Ohio Tactical Medical Association
WOW! A must have item for you! October 11, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Absolutely stunning. This book is the most thorough books I have ever read on the subject of armed self defense. L.A. Kane not only draws from noted experts as Loren Christensen, Marc "Animal" MacYoung, and Iain Abernethy but from his real life experiences as well. This book will answer any question you have (and probably will ever have) regarding surving armed assaults. This book is a definite must have!
Dan Anderson
Self Defense Encyclopedia! October 11, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Surviving Armed Assaults is a terrific addition to any serious library of self defense books. Its emphasis on awareness and avoidance as your most effective survival strategies makes it a worthy companion to works by authors such as Alain Burrese, Loren Christensen, Marc MacYoung, and Peyton Quinn. Kane covers enough aspects of the topic to make the book useful as an encyclopedia, and yet his prose is so readable, and he uses so many real life anecdotes to illustrate his points, that you'll have trouble putting it down. I'll be drawing on some of the lessons learned from SAA in future John Rain books.
Insightful and well organized October 11, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Surviving Armed Assaults is a far-reaching and superbly informative text that relies on the author's firsthand knowledge of weapons as a martial artist and security officer. His experiences are backed by recent statistics. A crucial part of the self-defense equation is the ability to understand violence, including knowledge of how weapons function and how they can fail, how an armed assailant reasons, and what he (or she) is looking for prior to an attack. Lawrence Kane's knowledge of violence has allowed him to write a very valid and insightful book. I particularly appreciated the color-coded awareness levels, which help the reader classify and quantify the danger in order to understand it better.
Martina Sprague, Author of Fighting Science, Complete Kickboxing, and Norse Warfare.
 An excellent book with a few minor flaws . . . October 11, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
First, I want to say that I really liked this book, and think that it's an excellent introduction to basic self-defense concepts. Second, it needs to be clarified that Loren Christensen is not the author -- he wrote the forward.
This is a "concept" book -- which automatically puts it way ahead of most other martial arts texts available (you know, the ones that say, "when the criminal initiates X attack, respond with Y technique"). No, this book primarily delves into essential topics like situational awareness, preparedness, and common sense. Furthermore, a number of informative case studies are referred to. Instead of being like every other martial arts book out there, "Surviving Armed Assaults" doesn't waste a lot of space with questionable techniques. Instead, it says, "Things can be dangerous out there, for example -- THIS might happen, and then what are you going to do?" Most other books barely touch on these subjects (outside of the introduction and back cover), so it was refreshing to see such a thorough presentation.
Sadly, it is not perfect. Being a traditional martial artist, the author can't seem to resist using Asian terminology and showing scenarios involving a number of weapons that it's unlikely you'll encounter on the street (i.e., pole-axe, spear, swords, sai, throwing knives, and even a compound bow!). It is true that people are occasionally assaulted with swords or spears, but I had to chuckle when I saw that the defender was similarly armed. That is a minor complaint.
My major complaint involves several counter-productive suggestions made by the author. First, he advocates the dreaded "Fillipino grip" as a viable alternative to the sabre grip (which he acknowledges to be less than secure) -- if certain practitioners of the FMA have been advocating pointing your thumb at the target (instead of properly wrapping it around the handle) then it must be good to do this, right? I don't think so. Next, he advocates defending oneself by holding one's keys between one's fingers "like a claw" -- I wish the "experts" would stop telling people to do that! Sounds like a really great idea -- until you hit something a few times, thereby cutting up your own fingers (and possibly severing a nerve). I know the author has read MacYoung's books, as he quotes from them several times, but he must've skipped over that part -- as well as the part which advised against "wrapping a chain around one's hand to use as a fistload," which could easily result in crushed and broked fingers. Aside from that handful of errors, this was an outstanding work . . . if the author corrects them in the next edition, it has the potential to be a classic.
If you can overlook the few bits of bad advice, this is one of the better self-defense books currently available. It is especially suited for women and teenagers (although some of the crime scene photos might gross 'em out a bit).
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