Fighting The Pain Resistant Attacker: Step-by-Step Survival Techniques

While this title did explicitly demonstrate physical techniques that would render a highly resistant and non-compliant adversary ineffective, the reality of the legal and civil consequences resulting from actually using these applications were not discussed or appropriately addressed. When is using such forceful and destructive applications appropriate within the affirmative defense laws within the USA? This was not properly addressed in detail, leaving the book draped in a violent and irresponsible shroud.To what end are these applications being taught and then potentially deployed? Are they for military personnel in combat or in a peacekeeping deployment? Are they for law enforcement who are duty-bound, and therefore, limited by departmental policy and the US Constitution? Are these techniques for the civilian who is bound by Affirmative Defense laws, and much like the law enforcement officer, can only use what force is necessary and reasonable for each specific altercation? This was never made clear and does a great disservice to the book and the reader.These applications will work against the non-compliant and highly resistive combatant. The question remains, why are we fighting the drunk, the doper, the deranged and the alpha hotel who feels no pain? Are we duty bound agents of some kind? Are we a civilian in the wrong place at the wrong time due to our lack of situational awareness! What is the context in which we will need to manage these violent and pain resistant individuals with these vicious physical applications?The only way to mechanically control any human being without causing serious damage to the adversary is that the head and hips must be simultaneously shut down from being able to move. In law enforcement and other duty bound personnel, to safely control any highly resistant adversary, this context demands a four to five to one ratio of duty-bound personnel to the controlling of said suspect. Otherwise, more damaging force is required to shut down and stop the adversary's head and hips from being able to move and escape.When a duty bound police officer is confronted with a highly resistive adversary, the police officer can use what force is necessary and reasonable to control this adversary, in respect to the force the adversary is offering the officer, and no more than that. In this case, many of these techniques may be required, and are justified to control and arrest the violent, resisting perpetrator. For a civilian, these applications can land one in prison if one seriously maims another, and then cannot articulate AND prove in a court of law, why he did what he had done. A civilian will need to show and prove he did what was only necessary and reasonable to the subject because the subject directly offered the defender means, opportunity and intent to seriously harm this defender, and would not let the defender leave the party. Only then will such force be justified.Physically destroying another human being's ability to attack is quite simple: physical actions are taken to do something to the assailant, with something (a force-enhancing tool or a physical application) that will knowingly, physically destroy the assailant's capacity to continue to violently attack the defender. Simultaneously shutting down the assailant's head and hips are the only way to achieve this stoppage. That is all anyone needs to know, and then own the attitude to drive that home with intent. The legal consequences of doing this will depend on the context in which such force was needed to stop this person in a reasonable and essential fashion, and whether or not the defender can convince the courts not to be punished for inflicting such damage on the assailant.The book does show what one can do to stop someone who is physically immune to pain compliance. The book fails to convey when, why and under what contextual environments these applications are reasonable and necessary. This creates serious legal ramifications for the user of said applications, when the use leads to the unnecessary injuring of another person.The reality remains, one person can rarely mechanically control another single person who is violent and who does not want to be man-handled, without seriously destroying that assailant's ability to move--destroying head and hips simultaneously. This book achieves that, but nothing more!

First, let me say this is not a bad book at all. The three stars is a personal choice, and if others give higher, as most have, I do not disagree. This book did not meet my needs and was not what I expected. If they gave it five stars, clearly it met their needs and fulfilled their expectations.I am familiar with Christensen's materials and think they are generally of good quality.However, with this book what I expected and hoped for was a book on dealing with pain-resistant attackers that would be of more use to people who might have to deal with them in a position where inflicting maiming injuries is not generally allowable. For instance, EMT's and concert security people regularly deal with drunks, drugged-out people and crazies who do not feel pain right and are out of control. (I've worked in both fields.) For them to maim the person is generally not desirable or permissable unless no other option is available. I had hoped this book would focus more on providing and discussing and weighing the pros and cons and principles of the other options. (i.e. break their balance, take out their legs if necessary, flip them on their front face down and then pile on.)Instead, this generally photo-heavy, text light book discusses things like vital striking points and strikes to the eyes and ear drums and other things such as elbows and knees to vital points of the skull that are intended to kill, maim and destroy an attacker. Of course, there is a time and place for these things, but I had hoped the book would discuss more alternatives.It does not, for instance, discuss positional asphyxia, a common problem when subduing and restraining pain resistant, out-of-control attackers. (People, particularly out-of-control people, should not be restrained face-down with their hands fastened or cuffed behind their backs. Death can result.)As stated, it's good at what it does. I think it should have been more clearly labeled as to what the focus of this book was and was not. It did not, however, cover what I wished to know and had thought I had been purchasing.Who knows? Christensen is a good writer. Perhaps I've given him a suggestion for a new book topic. If so I expect he will do a good job of covering THAT subject, the one I had expected to be covered here.

This is the kind of book that is needed for those involved in law enforcement and security. However, any martial artist and those involved in the self-defense field will also benefit from the material in this book. As a retired law enforcement officer and life time student of the martial arts, I have seen numerous incidents where a subject was too drunk, too drugged up or too mentally deranged to feel pain. To be frank, though there were times when the take down and control techniques I used on resisting subjects worked beautifully, but many times it just looked ugly. Unfortunately, in spite of all the progress made in the law enforcement product field, nothing works 100% of the time. There have been times when an officer used deadly force on a subject, and yet the subject continued fighting the officer.You can tell the author, who is a well-known prolific writer and retired police officer, knows the reality of the street. Anyone who claims they have a magic tool or technique that will work 100% of the time has either never worked the street or has very little experience dealing with combative people. The writer makes two things very clear in this fantastic book. (1) These techniques work on most people but not on all people. (2) These techniques can be considered deadly force and you had better be justified legally before using some of these techniques.This book has ten detailed chapters with hundreds of clear photographs. This is a book that will benefit military people, law enforcement and security officers, martial artists and self-defense instructors.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Shotokan Karate Self-Defense: Combat Karate for the street)

brilliant

a great addition to my library of books

El produto igual,llegan en buen estado,a tiempo,y la gente que lo entrega,es de buen trato.gracias.👌👍

Trés bon bouquin bien illustré, on a vite compris que l'auteur est un homme de terrain, l'ensemble des techniques est présentée avec le petit truc en plus qui peu faire la différence.

Aus der Praxis: Den Hebel aus der "Kampfkunst" angesetzt - und der mit allem möglichen vollgepumpte Kirmesschläger gibt nicht auf, merkt keinen Schmerz .. Oh !?Oder der 50 kg schwerere Gegner lächelt über meine "Kampfkunst"-Tritte ! Warum hält der sich nicht an die Regeln und kippt einfach um ?!? ;0)An dieser Stelle helfen vielleicht einige Tipps aus diesem Buch: Gutes kann so einfach sein !Es wird mit einigen (Kampfkunst-)Mythen aufgeräumt, gezeigt wie man mit dem schmerzfreien Angreifer umgehen und was dabei falsch gemacht werden kann.Erläutert werden in Wort und Bild einige Prinzipien, wo und wie man einen Angreifer behandeln muß, damit er aufgibt bzw. ruhig gestellt wird und man selbst die Flucht ergreifen kann - und das ohne kompliziertes Getue.Auch die Grenzen der "Techniken" und ihre Gefährdungspotenziale für Gegners Gesundheit (und eigene Freiheit) werden erwähnt.Alles in allem ein ehrliches, praxisorientiertes Buch für Situationen, in denen es eng wird. Nichts für die Fraktion "Kampkünstler"!