Practical Personal Defense

Contents

Acknoledgments
1 The need for personal defense
Aggression and alternatives to it
Legal implications of defense
Popular personal defense techniques
2 Developing a defense consciousness
3 Defensive combinations
Subtle defenses against harassment
Forceful defenses against physical attack
Defenses

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against more than one assailant
Life-and-death defenses
4 Initital defensive measures
Basic defensive stance
Use of Obstructions
Avoiding grasps
Pushing
Running
Rising from a prone position
The down defensive stances
Getting up from the crab position
Defense from a sitting position
5 Defensive strikes
Basic elements of defensive strikes
Types of defensive strikes
6 Releases
Releases from wrist grsps
Releases from arm locks
Releases from body grasps
Releases from chokes
Releases from down positions
Weapon defenses
Defenses against a gun
Defenses against a knife attack
Defenses against clubs, chains, and other weapons
8 Rape
The victim's options
What to do after being raped
How not to get raped
9 Protecting property and travel precautions
Home protection
Other property protections
Personal precautions
Travel precautions
10 Physical fitness for personal defense
Diet

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