Street Survival Guide: Self Defense Awareness, Avoidance And Fighting Techniques

Definitely a good read to learn the technicalities of self defense and keep yourself out of trouble. No book can teach you self defense fighting styles alone, but this teaches you awareness, avoidance of threats and how much you are permited by law to defend your life without facing jail time.definitely worth the money, because its disgusting how little you can do to prptect your life from a scum bag without crossing the line and breaking laws yourself. But a word of advice? Cold Steel's line of INFERNO pepper spray. Its by far thee nastiest foam spray you can get and will stop any would be attacker in their tracks while keeping you safe from both a threat and jail time.

This book was a straight to the point book without a lot of banter filling up the pages. It gives you good, basic knowledge on the subject and I would recommend it to anyone

I bought this book 3 years ago from Amazon and just found it (in my stuff) and had an hour to read it tonight. As a woman, I find most of these books either over the top for guys with way too much info you'll never remember when stuff starts going down or dumbed down for women. This books talks about the legal aspects of what happens after using self defense, when to use self defense to mitigate legal problems, the fight or flight response and how to handle it (this is rarely talked about), and gives real life examples of what to do if you're in a bad situation. I've ordered his next book.

I didn’t like his book it’s for experienced ppl. Ke he army or police

One of the first things one needs to know about Street Survival is situations to be aware of around you at all times. Is there someone on the other side of the street following you?What do you do if three suspicious looking men are walking toward you? What do you do when you walk by doorways in town? One has to be very conscious of what is going on around him/her at all times. Also when one is a target, the person or persons will attack when they get close to you. The best way to avoid this is situational awareness. If three suspicious men are coming towards you, cross the street before they get close. If they cross the street then try walking the other way. Try not to engage them in a fight. However if you are walking down a street and three guys jump out of a passing car, you will have to defend yourself. Even if one is a concealed carry, you have to act fast. No weopon, then using anything you have, keys, a knife or street fighting is the only way to defend yourself. There is so much good advice in this book that can save your life if a person follows what is in this book and ones situational awareness and instincts. A very good book for survival on the streets today.

Im only giving 5 stars because it must be difficult to write a book .this book can be summed up in a few words and those words are " use common sense" come on Ryan Christensen with all of your martial arts knowledge you could illustrate some self defense moves.just saying " use common sense" over and over again is not you helping your fellow man or woman out.

I do not feel the advice in this book is the best route.I have read numerous books on the subject and work in a sometimes hostile environment.I dont feel that this book would give you the best chance in a real world self defense situation.The author highlights dont overreact.If its actual self defense(as in your life is in danger/or sever bodily harm)you wouldnt have to worry about overreacting.Infact under reacting could get you killed.If it was a situation that your concern would be your overreaction then chances are its not a self defense situation.Books really thin around 52 pages.Reads like a magazine without pictures.Makes me think I should write a book.Im sure I could rattle off atleast 100 pages of advice on the subject and it would be more sound.

This is a decent introduction to the idea of self defense in the real world. The author readily admits that you can't learn physical self defense moves from reading a book so he concentrates more on the ideas and strategies that can be used to protect yourself from a violent encounter, such as awareness, calming a situation down, not looking an attacker in the eye, etc.. I especially like that he points out the legal aspects that may arise if you decide to use force to protect yourself. I train in Krav Maga and the question of when to defend yourself and how far to take it comes up quite often with newer students.This guide is relatively short and is not meant to be a comprehensive explanation of physical movements. I didn't find a single item from this book that I would disagree with. The author could have added more and more but there has to be a stopping point and as I said before, I think this is a pretty good introduction to the concept of self defense rather than a manual of techniques. However, you won't "be ready in no time" just by reading this. Self defense takes time, practice and guidance. But unlike several other books that I've read on the subject, this one isn't telling you to immediately kill your attacker or carry poison needles up your sleeve.To the author: Since I'm a stickler for such things, there are several places where the word "of" should be "off". Other than that, nicely done.

Not much to this book. However I still enjoyed reading it. Some good tips.

i never receive this book sense i have paid for it...

Ein sehr gutes Buchen um einen schnellen Überblick über die wichtigsten Themen der Selbstverteidung zu erhalten!Ich werde mich weiterhin stark mit dem Thema beschäftigen.

Super Guide für die Theorie des Street Survival und für Mind Training!Kleiner dafür etwas stärker wäre als Format Handlicher!

cool book