The Escapes

by Geoff Thompson

Book, 2001

Description

Ground Fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. 95% of all street fights that are not finished within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor. Are you prepared? This series of books prepares you with the very best of Wrestling, Ju-jitsu, Judo etc. covering ground control, bars, locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, butts, bites, tearing, gouges etc., reintroducing the many illegal and banned techniques from a century ago. How to escape from every ground hold and turn a bad fight into a victory. Escapes from head locks, mounts, side and upper 4 1/4 chokes etc. Knowledge of The Escapes allows you to be calm on the ground and turn disadvantage to advantage. Geoff Thompson made violence his profession working as a doorman at some of Britain s roughest clubs. As the holder of the rank of 6th Dan black belt in Japanese karate, 1st Dan in Judo and equally well qualified in other martial arts he is a TOUGH man."… (more)

Library's review

Ground fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the martial arts. 95% of all street fights that are not over within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor-are you prepared?

This series of books six prepares you with the very best techniques from Wrestling,
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Jui-Jitsu, Judo etc. It covers ground control, bars, locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, butts, bites, tearing, gouges, etc. re-introducing the many illegal/banned techniques from the beginning of the century.

This book tells you how to escape from every ground hold and turn a bad fight into a victory. It includes escapes from head locks, mounts, side and upper 4 1/4 chokes etc. Knowledge of the escapes allows yo to be calm on the ground and turn disadvantaage to advantage.

Contents

Introduction
Review
Chapter One From scarf hold
Chapter Two From the mount position
Chapter Three From the side 4 1/4 hold down
Chapter Four From the upper 4 1/4 hold down
Chapter Five Drilling the escapes
Conclusion
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Publication

Summersdale Publishers P.O. Box 49 Chichester West Sussex PO19 2FJ United Kingdom
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