How to Fight for Your Life: Enhanced Reality-Based Close Combat Training for Self-Defense and Street Survival (Guided Chaos Combatives)

As a self-defence manual, this book is useless, as it only shows you how to use various striking and kicking moves. It shows no moves that will defend against punches, kicks and holds. The principle behind the book is that you have to strike first anyone who enters your personal body space and who you suspect has malevolent intentions towards you. When you have stuck them first, you are then advised to run away. The problem with this approach is that it could cause paranoid people to assault innocent people who just happen to look intimidating and who are merely approaching the paranoid person in order to ask for directions. Indeed, the book say that you have to be wary of anyone who asks you for directions—or even what time it is.So it would be more accurate to call this a "pre-emptive attack" manual rather than a self-defence one. God help you if you are jumped on from behind unexpectedly or someone comes up to you and actually makes to punch you. This manual has nothing to say about such things.