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'The knife came out and pop! He held it right here (behind the right hip), stepped foward, buried it in his gut, twisted it, and yanked it out.. It was over, baby! They booked, and so did we.'-Link Sanchez
The Logic of Steel is not about the art of kinife fighting. Its sole purpose is to illustrate
For the past five years James LaFond has been assembling and analyzing data about violence in his Baltimore, Maryland, neighborhood and elsewhere. Here he offers a comprehensive analysis of more than 250 acts of violence that involved the use of an edged weapon, as told from the perspective of attackers, eyewitnesses, and victims. The actionis borken donw by waepon type (razors, foldrs, butchers, balisongs, switchblades, sickles, swords, and imrprovised slasher/astabbers) and use patterns. The circumstances, motivation, and mechanics of real blade and shank fights are illuminated through the use of gripping (and often comical) first-person accounts, photographs, and hard statistics. Also discussed are the psychology, injury patterns, and legal ramifications of knife fighting, as well as invaluable tips on how to prevent clinches and floor fights from escalating into knife fights, how to survive unarmed against an armed assailant, how to dress for success against a knife fighter, and how to live to fight another day by successfully running away from an armed attacker.
If you want to be able to spot a knifer-and predict his behavior-before it's too late, The Logic of Steel is a must read.
Contents
Chapter 1 The real raw deal
Chapter 2 The ignorant, the arrogant, and the unkind
Chapter 3 The doer, the done, and the dumbfounded
Chapter 4 Twerps, goons, and bloodthirsty babes
Chapter 5 Shaving sideways
Chapter 6 Getting boned
Chapter 7 Bloody junk
Chapter 8 Awesome but obsolete
Chapter 9 Dresssed to kill
Chapter 10 Getting stuck in the grapple
Chapter 11 When you're food
Chapter 12 Taking them with you
Chapter 13 Flesh against steel
Chapter 14 Living to fight another day
Conclusion
Apologies
Glossary of slang terms
The Logic of Steel is not about the art of kinife fighting. Its sole purpose is to illustrate
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the cold, hard, logical nature and dynamics of real-world edged-weapon encounters as experienced by author James LaFond and more than 90 other people who have found themselves suddenly caught up in a knife fight.For the past five years James LaFond has been assembling and analyzing data about violence in his Baltimore, Maryland, neighborhood and elsewhere. Here he offers a comprehensive analysis of more than 250 acts of violence that involved the use of an edged weapon, as told from the perspective of attackers, eyewitnesses, and victims. The actionis borken donw by waepon type (razors, foldrs, butchers, balisongs, switchblades, sickles, swords, and imrprovised slasher/astabbers) and use patterns. The circumstances, motivation, and mechanics of real blade and shank fights are illuminated through the use of gripping (and often comical) first-person accounts, photographs, and hard statistics. Also discussed are the psychology, injury patterns, and legal ramifications of knife fighting, as well as invaluable tips on how to prevent clinches and floor fights from escalating into knife fights, how to survive unarmed against an armed assailant, how to dress for success against a knife fighter, and how to live to fight another day by successfully running away from an armed attacker.
If you want to be able to spot a knifer-and predict his behavior-before it's too late, The Logic of Steel is a must read.
Contents
Chapter 1 The real raw deal
Chapter 2 The ignorant, the arrogant, and the unkind
Chapter 3 The doer, the done, and the dumbfounded
Chapter 4 Twerps, goons, and bloodthirsty babes
Chapter 5 Shaving sideways
Chapter 6 Getting boned
Chapter 7 Bloody junk
Chapter 8 Awesome but obsolete
Chapter 9 Dresssed to kill
Chapter 10 Getting stuck in the grapple
Chapter 11 When you're food
Chapter 12 Taking them with you
Chapter 13 Flesh against steel
Chapter 14 Living to fight another day
Conclusion
Apologies
Glossary of slang terms
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ISBN
1581601301 / 9781581601305
Publication
Paladin Press Boulder, Colorado