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WHAT RESOURCES DO YOU HAVE FOR SELF DEFENSE??
A GREAT ONE IS:
THE BOOK- THE GIFT OF FEAR
BY GAVIN DEBECKER
A GREAT ONE IS:
THE BOOK- THE GIFT OF FEAR
BY GAVIN DEBECKER
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Check out:
WEB SITES
BOOKS
"Sharpening the Warrior's Edge" by Bruce K. Siddle
"Dead or Alive, The choice is Yours" by Geoff Thompson
"Protecting the Gift" by Gavin De Becker
VIDEO
Tony Blauer- Rape Safe -
These are some of the videos and books that we have in the ESCAPE Self Defense Library. Does anyone know of some good web pages?
Videos
Fierce and Female
video by Melissa Soalt
Kickboxing
video by June Castro
Vee Arnis Jitsu
video by David James
All Videos by Jim Grover
Firearms
video Krav Maga
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Tapes
by the Gracie Family
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Books
Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense
book by Martha McCaughey
Her Wits About Her
edited by Groves and Cannon
Mind Hunter
book by John Douglass
Back Off!
book by Martha LangelanComment
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I looked at the Stop Rape web page and thought it had some good things on it.
Paul Vunak's web page is very good too.Comment
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Heres some.
Bruce Lees Fighting Method: Self Defence techniques.
Just about everything by Geoff Tompson
Gift of Fear as Erica said is ver good.
Hope this is OK bye.Comment
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Fighter - that web page is really cool. I am going to tell my friends about it.
MINDHUNTER is a good, but creepy, book about profiling killers, rapists, etc.
Mindhunter enters the minds of some of the country's (USA) most notorious serial killers to tell the real-life story of the Investigative Support Unit (ISU) -- the FBI's special force that has assisted state and local police in cracking some of the country's serial murder and rape cases. The unit specializes in understanding the chemistry and mechanical workings of the brain's of these serial criminals, and did its homework by interviewing such murderers as Charles Manson and David Berkowitz (the Son of Sam). John Douglas, who worked for the FBI for 25 years, is an authority on the unit, and his book combines the best of nonfiction with that of a murder mystery. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Comment
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Cool I'll have check that out. I would love to know why some people turn out complete and utter psychos!
And Im glad you liked that site, that was one of the first MA sites I ever went to.Comment
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women's self defense book
Beauty Bites Beast - the book- by Ellen Snortland- is really, really, good. It talks about a woman's experience going through a women's self defense course. There are many women's experiences in the book and it really makes everything about violence against women come together. I highly recomend it! You can find it at this address.
ericaComment
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This is not specifically a self defence book but I think it can help everyone in any situation
Sun Tzu the Art of War
Great book!
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Videos
1) Street Self-Defense Concepts
2) Muggings
3) 1-2-3 HIT
4) Take it to Them
All by Vee Arnis Jitsu, I think the best are the 1-2-3 HIT Program TapesComment
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Erica,
I would suggest you go check out www.senshido.com. They have probably one of the best self defense programs. Women self defense is often a touchy subject.Most self defense programs are taught and developped by men. I personally believe that you can't teach someone if you have not been there and done that. Would it make sense in this case to trust the judgement of men who don't know what it's like to be a women under these circumstances? In this case, the program was developped by Helen Strazl and Richard Dimitri. Helen has been there, she has gone through a lot and knows what it's like. Together with Richard's experience, they developped one of the best self defense programs out there. I suggest you go take a look at the website.
By the way, a lot of the principals taught by Gavin De Becker are use is conjunctions with this program (as well as many other sources).
Stay safeComment
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erica,
the only guys/girls who pass the reality test in my book for the total package (mental+physical) are geoff thompson, richard dimitri, and sammy franco. they are absolutely top of the class in reality self defense instructors. please, for your own safety, STAY AWAY FROM THE GRACIES when you are looking for real self defense materials. i have no doubt that they can handle themselves both in the ring and in reality, but their stuff is not for joe and jane average. joint locks, arm locks, and anything that tells you to bring the opponent to the ground right off the bat is far from what you want to try in reality. matt thornton thinks everything is a "no holds barred" (there are MANY holds barred) match, and will hear nothing to the contrary. while there is no doubt that you or anyone else would improve your skills training with him, he is definitely not the man to go to.
for the mental aspect (extremely important):
gavin de becker, sanford strong, sun tsu's art of war
physical stuff (important, but not quite as much):
carl cestari-WW II combatives, vee arnis jitsu (i have been told it's ok, but never seen it), maybe even paul vunak (good, but others have moved far beyond him imho)
the total package:
sammy franco- www.sammyfranco.com
rich dimitri- www.senshido.com
geoff thompson- www.geoffthompson.com
any of these people would be great to train with. they all have a lot of good knowledge to share. if you want women's self defense in particular, helen stratzl of senshido would be a great choice. definitely worth looking into. hope i helped.Comment
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completley wrong
"matt thornton thinks everything is a "no holds barred" (there are MANY holds barred) match, and will hear nothing to the contrary."
Could NOT be possibly farther from the truth.
The Reality is that 98% of all our students worldwide come to the SBG for self defense training. In addition, working with Law Enforcment, through our LE program you can check that out here: www.isrmatrix.org ,and Military units now makes up a larger part of our teaching time then do our NHB athletes.
However, yes it is true what we teach WILL work in a MMA environment, and when you spar. That's a nice side benefit to teaching reality. If what you are learning does not work when you spar, or your instructor claims it's to "deadly" to pressure test, or only for the "street", find a new school, you are learning nonsense.
There is an entire section on our website devoted to this subject, and you can read many peoples real world experiences there reagrding actual self defense.
Go to www.straightblastgym.com check under 'street vs sports nonsense'.
For future reference Ryan, it's better to have an idea of what you are talking about before you state an opinion. I am sure you have never attended an SBG class anywhere, an SBG seminar, nor met myself, or any SBG Instructor. Try it, you will learn the reality of what we do, and then post your honest opinion. Otherwise you are simply speaking from ignorance. You obviously have no idea what my opinion on "self defense" is. But such is the nature of the internet.
I don't get much time to post online anymore, but anyone can feel free to e-mail me at info@straightblastgym.com if you are ever interested in the truth about what we do, what Alivness is about, etc. I make a point to return all e-mail eventually.
enjoy the day!
-Matt Thornton
Last edited by smartmonkey; 01-04-2003, 04:41 PM.Comment
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Hey Matt
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To be honest, I have positively altered my opinion of your stuff as of late. When I wrote this post, it was just based upon hearsay and opinions from people I'd spoken with that turned out to have a very skewed and incorrect viewpoint of what you do at SBG. Since then I'd visited your site and done a lot of reading about the way you guys train. I think your site does have a big MMA/NHB feel to it, but I'm guessing that that is the way you choose to market yourself rather than "streetfighting" (correct me if I'm wrong). I've never trained at an SBG or with a coach, but I wouldn't pass up the opportunity if it came my way. My only beef was with the way that MMA was propogated as "self defense" by many instructors. Street is not sport and vice versa. They do, however, overlap in many ways. The reason I didn't list you up with my top 3 or 4 instructors is that I didn't see anything on your site in reference to the psychological aspects of real life survival that the others cover so well (as well as being top notch physically). If you do address it (as you say you do), that fact is not evidenced by your webiste. The impression that I got was that you used a lot of the tools but didn't go any deeper into the mindset, etc. of combat and real life altercations--far more important in the long run than just physical technique. Evidently I was mistaken (it happens from time to time).
I am in total agreement with you on this one. If you don't train full contact/no consent, or "alive" as you like to put it, you are learning how to dance, not how to fight/protect yourself. If your instructor (or at least his top students) won't roll with you, don't learn how to grapple from him. If he or his students won't box you, don't learn striking from him. I get the feeling that you have had some annoying experiences with people claiming to be "too deadly" or some "master streetfighter." The top reality guys (Rich, Sammy, Geoff, Tony) are not into that crap at all as far as I can tell. All I see are a lot of alive drills and full contact sparring. None of that fairy "my death touch would have struck you down" nonsense.However, yes it is true what we teach WILL work in a MMA environment, and when you spar. That's a nice side benefit to teaching reality. If what you are learning does not work when you spar, or your instructor claims it's to "deadly" to pressure test, or only for the "street", find a new school, you are learning nonsense.
Hope I cleared the air.
Take it easy,
RyanLast edited by ryanhall; 01-05-2003, 01:30 AM.Comment
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Never saw contradictions in full contact sparring, NHB-styled athleticism, and street psychology/adrenaline dump managment training.
To be honest I sometimes rub my head at the "street vs. sport" arguments. You've got to train your tools competitivly. Even though realistic defense involves a lot of psychological aspects (that strict NHB doesn't train) ...... when it comes down to it.... you've got to have some "umph" behind your skills.
After all, who could deliver a better "pre-emptive strike"? A trained boxer, or someone who punched air all his life?
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