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Quick overview: for real fighting, less is more. If you study a thousand blocks, you'll get hit while your brain struggles to correlate the stimulus of the attack with the reaction that's buried somewhere in your brain.
So you get to make choices in the universe of fighting techniques. Except that you're not an expert with a few hundred or thousand hand to hand donnybrooks, so you have no idea how to make those choices. Enter Fairbairn, who had the experience to make educated choices.
And he was well schooled in the universe of crunch-munchy techniques. After he was beaten and left for dead by Triad goons, he decided it might be good to study fighting techniques. So he did, with exactly the amount of enthusiasm that goes into such study, after you've been left for dead.
This is a short book. It has few techniques. They are not sportive techniques. They are not for casual use, any more than a short-barrel police special is for shoving matches at the softball game.
These are techniques designed to give soldiers, spys, British Resistance Forces after a Nazi invasion, and other folks in a tight spot an equalizer.
Although, from Fairbairn's point of view, if you didn't have a weapon, that was an indication that something had gone terribly wrong.
There are knife techniques in this book and a few restraining techniques. Those are probably not very useful to you unless you're stalking a sentry with a knife, or moving a German soldier a short distance.
One last point: these techniques are like using weapons. They are not for entertainment.
These techniques burst eardrums, break necks and backs, and crush throats. They emphasize pre-emptive strikes and specifically reject the use of groundfighting, preferring to jump merrily on top of your opponent once you have him on the ground, rather than use a folding-scarf hold or a hold-down.
Summary: this is a brilliant book; if you think it's too short, or dated, or inapplicable, you simply don't understand it. But it's a special purpose book. It's not for sports or fun. For a high school kid who wants to better handle himself, boxing or wrestling or books by Tegner are better choices. For somebody who is going to be on a battlefield or behind lines, this is the book. Also see Kill or Get Killed by Applegate, which is from the same era.
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The father of modern hand-to-hand combat, Capt. W. E. Fairbairn, taught the famed British Commandos from this classic, long-out-of-print manual on unarmed combat. Known for his "get tough" attitude, Fairbairn designed these practical methods after years of training troops and watching ruffians, thugs, bandits and bullies. Now you can profit from his experience.
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