Street Lethal Unarmed Urban Combat

by Sammy Franco

1989

Library's review

If you want to survive a real streetfight, forget about those fancy leaping kicks and preplanned responses that you learned in the dojo-they simply will not work in a real-life encounter. Street Lethal confronts this problem by both outlining the principles for a realistic street-fighting martial
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art and taking a controversial look at the current state of traditional marial arts in America.

Author Sammy Franco argues that traditional martial arts are locked into ancient styles and form as and have lost their effectiveness as combat systems that would work on today's city steets. In response to this,Franco has funded Contemporary Fighting Arts, a hard-hitting self-defense system that goes to the heart of a streetfighting situation and ends it quickly. Street Lethal is a provocative book on unarmed combat that every serious martla artist should read.

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter One Physical conditioning
Chapter Two The fighting stance
Chapter Three The ranges of unarmed combat
Chapter Four The offensive structure
Chapter Five The defensive structure
Conclusion
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ISBN

873645170

Publication

Paladin Press Boulder, Colorado
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