The Art and Science of Self Defense - A Comprehensive Instructional Guide

"The Art and Science of Self Defense provides you with a condensed system of distilled skills and techniques, each carefully selected for its reliability in a high stress environment. Martial arts, combat sports, and self-defense are different realms, and while interconnected, they are not the same. This book helps bridge the gap. While training in the martial arts or competitive combat sports can aid you in a self-defense situation, it does not prepare you on how to take action should you need to physically defend yourself. Topics include awareness skills, including situational, spatial, and environmental; avoidance skills to deal with fear, escape, and de-escalation; anticipation skills for being approached, posturing, and reading body language; action arsenal including targeting, striking, yelling, evading, and countering; and advanced arsenals for dealing with ground fighting, weapons, and multiple attackers. Whether you are just starting out, or have been practicing martial arts for years, there are important self-defense skills for everyone in this book"--

List of contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Combat Sports, Martial Arts, and Self-Defense

Part 2: Self-Defense and the Law

Part 3: The Art and Science of Self-Defense

Level 1: Awareness

Part 1: Situational Awareness

Part 2: Variable Assessment

Part 3: Recognizing a Threat

Level-1 Activities

Level 2: Avoidance, De-escalation, and Anticipation

Part 1: Avoidance

Part 2: De-escalation

Part 3: Anticipation

Level-2 Activities

Level 3: Building an Arsenal

Part 1: Targeting

Part 2: Offensive Techniques

Part 3: Defensive Techniques

Level-3 Activities

Level 4: Action!

Part 1: Right Time

Part 2: Right Place

Part 3: Right Technique

Part 4: Right Perspective/Run

Level-4 Activities

Level 5: Dirty Tricks

Part 1: When to Fight Dirty

Part 2: How to Fight Dirty

Level-5 Activities

Level 6: Takedowns

Part 1: The Clinch

Part 2: Falling

Part 3: Throws

Part 4: Foot Sweeps and Trips

Level-6 Activities

Level 7: Ground Fighting

Part 1: Basics

Part 2: Pins, Hold-Downs, and Locks

Part 3: Escaping

Level-7 Activities

Level 8: Weapons

Part 1: Improvised Weapons

Part 2: Defending Against Weapons

Level-8 Activities

Level 9: Multiple Attackers

Part 1: Establishing Control

Part 2: Evading and Escaping

Part 3: Going on the Attack

Level-9 Activities

Acknowledgments

Appendixes

Appendix 1: Dog Attack

Appendix 2: Children

Appendix 3: Sexual Assault

Appendix 4: Training Equipment

About the author

Joe Varady is an award-winning author of The Art and Science of Staff Fighting, and The Art and Science of Stick Fighting. He is a sixth-degree black belt with over thirty years of experience in martial arts. Joe has trained in numerous Eastern and Western disciplines, including karate, judo, eskrima, boxing, fencing, and long sword. He has won numerous awards competing in full-contact weapons tournaments around the world. Joe holds a master’s degree in elementary education. He is the head instructor at Satori Dojo and Modern Gladiatorial Arts. Joe Varady resides in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Summary

The Art and Science of Self Defense Training provides you with a condensed system of distilled self-defense skills and techniques, each carefully selected for its reliability in a high stress environment.


Topics include situational awareness, avoidance, and how to take action should you need to physically defend yourself.

Martial arts, combat sports, and self-defense are different realms; although interconnected they are not entirely the same. — This book can help bridge that gap.

This curriculum is streamlined and divided into nine logical stages of training that allows both martial artists and those with no formal fighting experience to quickly and methodically learn and develop reliable skills for self-defense.

While training in the martial arts or competitive combat sports can aid you in a self-defense situation, it does not prepare you for those aspects that are unique to actual self-defense.

The book begins with the basics, upon which everything else relies – awareness, avoidance, and anticipation skills – before moving on to building a reliable arsenal of self-defense techniques. You will progress through a series of carefully selected actions for high stress situations.

The aim of this curriculum is to improve confidence and skills in a structured and logical way.

Topics include

• Awareness skills including situational, spatial, and environmental


• Avoidance skills to deal with fear, escape, and de-escalation


• Anticipation skills for being approached, posturing, and reading body language


• Action arsenal including targeting, striking, yelling, evading, and countering


• Advanced arsenals for dealing with ground fighting, weapons, and multiple attackers

Whether you are just starting out, or have been practicing martial arts for years, there are important self-defense skills for everyone in this book.

Product details

• Authors: Joe Varady, Varady Joe
• Assisted by: Gary Quesenberry (Foreword), Gary Dean Quesenberry (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2022
• EAN: 9781594398995
• ISBN: 978-1-59439-899-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Illustrations: Color
• Series: Martial Science
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Martial arts, self-defence; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Violence in society, SPORTS & RECREATION / Martial Arts / General, Combat sports and self-defence