Description
Charles Nelson was revered for his "do-whatever-it-takes" school of self-defense. Many well-known exponents of the fighting arts - Carl Cestari, Bob Kasper and Kelly McCann - learned from Nelson at his school in New York, and thousands more have learned from his famous Red and Gray Manuals. The last of Nelson's manuals, Self-Defense by Charles C. Nelson, is less well known but still quintessential Nelson in its sensible, hands-on approach to self-defense. Nelson's genius was this: he spent a lifetime studying the way predators attack and then simplifying what he had learned into a system of uncomplicated principles and techniques that work for everyone. The exclusive new foreword by Paul Gerasimczyk, a long-time student at Nelson's school who worked on both the Red and Gray Manuals, traces Nelson's role as a self-defense icon - from his days first learning and then teaching hand-to-hand combat in the Marine Corps to his pioneering role as a civilian self-defense instructor. Now a whole new generation can learn about Nelson's self-defense program from this little booklet, which few people even knew existed.… (more)
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Nelson's genius was this: he spent a lifetime studying the way predators attack and then simplifying what he had learned into a system of uncomplicated principles and techniques that work for everyone.The exclusive new foreword by Paul Gerasimczyk, a long-time student at Nelson's school who worked on both the Red and Gray Manuals, traces Nelson's role as a self-defense icon-from his days first learning and then teaching hand-to-hand combat in the Marine Corps to his pioneering role as a civilian self-defense instructor. Now a whole new generation can learn about Nelson's self-defense program from this little booklet, which few people even knew existed.
Contents
Defense against unarmed attacks
1 Single-hand throat grab
2 Two-hand choke from the front
3 Two-hand choke from behind
4 Two-hand choke from the side
5 Single-hand clothing grab
6 Single-hand grab from the side (while you are carrying a package)
7 Attempted grab rom the fornt (while you are carrying a package)
8 Punching attack (left jab)
9 Side headlock
10 Preventing a bear hug
11 Front bear hug (when your arms are over his)
12 Front bear hug (when your arms are under his)
13 Full nelson
14 Hammerlock
15 Double wrist grab from front (when your hands are up)
16 Single-hand grab with a shove
17 Double wrist grab from behind
18 Applying the Japanese double-arm-lock (against a cross-wrist grab)
19 Applying the straight arm bar
Defense against weapons
1 Knife held to stomach from front
2 Shirt grab from front with knife against throat
3 Wrist grab from side with knife against throat (far side)
4 Wrist grab from side with knife against throag (near side)
5 Knife held to back from behind
6 Knife held to back from behind with elbow grab
7 Stick against throat from behind (while seated)
8 Using an umbrella for defense
9 Stick against throat from behind (while standing)
10 Attempted grab from front (brandishing hammer)
11 Baseball bat swing
12 Downward club strike
13 Pistol whipping