Attack Proof - 2nd Edition

by John Perkins, Al Ridenhour, Matt Kovsky

Real violence is not like anything you see in the movies or the ring. Ask any street cop or soldier: Real violence is total chaos and cannot be defended against with either patterned technique training or sport fighting. Attack Proof presents a proven personal protection system, called guided chaos, for anticipating and fending off even the most brutal assaults. It's based on the real-world experiences and forensic homicide research of a former New York cop and instructor for members of the FBI, U.S. Marines and air marshals, and security personnel for dignitaries. Attack Proof trains you to become a martial realist by preparing you for the unexpected. Rather than robotic techniques or rules-based sport fighting, Attack Proof teaches you how to adapt, improvise, and survive, creating your defense spontaneously as you need it. With protection strategies for larger assailants, car and airline hijackings, workplace violence, multiple attackers, fighting on the ground and in stairwells, and attacks and defenses using guns, knives, sticks, and canes, Attack Proof is the next best thing to having your own personal bodyguard. Featuring the same tactics used by select police, military, and security professionals to defend themselves, Attack Proof is the trusted guide to personal protection when real violence occurs.

Genres: Martial Arts

296 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2000

Reviews

[TΞΞL❍CK Mith!lesh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Invincibility is no longer a myth, although the regimen it requires is exhaustingly grueling. Perkins demonstrates the steps that anyone can take to be immune to offensive attacks. The training routine is centralized on the importance of deploying chaos. This allows fighters to fluidly confuse their enemy combatants. The book’s aim is to cultivate a deeper sense of self-awareness within its readership.

[Timothy Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

Martial arts and self-defense books that show methods of blocking, striking, breaking choleholds, etc. are a nickel a dozen. This book is something else entirely: it is one of the two best collections of useful drills in print. (The other one is Rory Miller's _Drills: Training for Sudden Violence_.) _Attack Proof_ begins with some basic close-combat drills that are immediately applicable to self-protection, and then progresses into drills that develop looseness, body unity, balance, freedom of movement, and so on. If you buy one martial arts or self-defense book this year, buy this one.

[Sal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great primer on real-life self-defense.

[J Crossley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book advocates self-education to help protect you from those who would do you harm.