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Common Sense Self-Defense: 7 Techniques That Can Save Your Life
by David Garcia, Stewart Smith
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press (2002-09-05)
ISBN: 1578260906
EAN: 9781578260904
Dewy Decimal #: 796.81
Paperback: 120 pages
Release Date: 2002-08-16
SKU: T071215-3721
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Very good overall condition. No writing, very tight binding. Ships first class same day or next. Enjoy.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Date rape. Purse snatching. Car jacking. Mugging. Terrorism. This world can be a dangerous place.
Now police officer David Garcia and former Navy SEAL Stewart Smith show you how to protect yourself. Together they have created the premier instruction book on effective personal protection, Common Sense Self-Defense: 7 Techniques That Can Save Your Life.
This book presents an intelligent approach to self-defense that anyone–spouse, son, daughter, mother, brother, sister–can use in times of trouble. Common Sense Self-Defense is a basic program that takes only minutes a week to practice, as opposed to a martial arts program, which takes several hours a day to master.
This book offers options and techniques, as well as a sure-fire method of analyzing the inherent danger of any situation. The program presents effective physical techniques to aid in surviving almost any predicament, plus ways to avoid potentially life threatening scenarios.
No matter how little you know about defending yourself, this book will teach you everything you need to escape or survive an attack. 100 b/w photos.
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Customer Reviews
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save your money and buy something else
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-11-30
The things covered in here are somewhat helpful, but there isn't enough teaching in it to justify buying the book. Any other book on self defense techniques will cover all this book has to offer and more.
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Same Old Stuff!
Rating (1)
Date: 2005-12-15
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book might be useful to someone without any self-defense knowledge at all but there are many other books out there that cover the same material and more that I would recommend instead. While the author is doing a good thing in trying to spread this information, he would have done better to make it more uniquely his own rather than just re-hashing information that had been in every basic self-defense book for the past 20 years or more.
I would pass on this title and look to some of the others currently available.
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The Real Deal
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-04-21
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hmmm, let me think. What would be more useful in a real life street confrontation - biting, eye raking, head butting, foot stomping, groin kicking, elbowing, kneeing etc. or using kung fu movie secret pressure point techniques? The most useful part of this book is pages 41-50 where you learn 12 ways to strike your attacker. Incorporate these into your cardio kickboxing routine and you will have some tricks in your arsenal that you might actually remember and be able to use in the savage chaos of a real hand to hand struggle. Pages 53-54, where to strike, are useful too. Pages 57-80, the obligatory photos demonstrating sequences of techniques, might be hard to pull off in reality but would actually be effective if you could (yes you can head butt someone who is taller than you, it's called hopping and adds emphasis). The first 40 pages, where and how to avoid fights, might be pretty basic but it never hurts to review and there are some good tips you might not think of on your own. This book is geared at dealing with an unarmed attacker, but it also gives the best advice of all for dealing with an armed assailant- run away. If you can't run kick them in the groin and bite them in the throat. If that doesn't work grab that pressure point near the elbow between your thumb and index finger.
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Not a book on techniques!
Rating (1)
Date: 2004-04-07
17 out of 25 customers found this reveiw helpful
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The title of the book is "7 *RULES* That Can Save Your Life," *NOT* 7 Techniques! That being said, this book is pretty useless, it contains the oft-repeated info about first avoid a fight if possible and about being aware of surroundings and suspicious characters, but contains little useful info, especially if you are facing a larger opponent. The pictures all show people of more or less equal height, which means you won't be able to reverse-headbutt someone taller, nor will you be able to elbow someone with a much longer reach! One technique shows a guy being grabbed on the shoulder from behind and he miraculously turns all the way around and elbows the attacker in the next picture (Yeah right!) Many of the techniques shown are just plain unrealistic and implausible. The most useful point was about biting an attacker in the ribs/stomach if he has you in a forward-facing head-lock. This book spends more time telling you about running away, common sense awareness and avoiding using deadly force or a weapon because of legal ramifications. The "seven rules" stated: 1) Use Your Head 2) Avoid Danger 3) Know When to Use Force 4) Know How to Hit 5) Know What to Hit (with a chart that's laughable about what targets to bite/elbow/knee) 6) Know How to Fight (which means buying some other book, cos this book doesn't tell you squat!) and 7) Train for Self-Defense (which again, isn't covered in this book except to tell you to buy a heavy punching bag and other worthless junk!) So now you know the "7 rules," go buy a worthwhile book! George Dillman's book on pressure point self defense is much more useful regarding real self defense.
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The best book on self-defense that I've read.
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-11-23
7 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a book that cuts away at all the crap, and gets down to practical self-defense. It is perfect for someone who has no previous martial arts experiance. The first part of the book covers what precautions a person should take, in different situations, to avoid being a victim of violence. The second part is about the more technical aspect, of using your bodys natural weapons against vital targets. The section on training is a little short, but I don't know how many people have a heavy bag in their house to practice on anyways. A nice feature of this book is a chart that shows what body weapons work best against what targets. This book is specifically about unarmed confrontations, but if you're interested, the Krav Maga book is only about armed attackers, so they kind of work well togeather. If you know nothing about self-defense, or if you're a martial artist who questions his training, I recomend buying this book.
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