Dead or Alive : The Choice Is Yours - The Definitive Self-Protection Handbook (Summersdale Martial Arts)

The up-dated edition of Geoff Thompson's classic guide to self-defence. This book teaches simple precautionary measures that everyone can take to make themselves less vulnerable to attack, and explains what victims should do when confronted by an assailant. Geoff Thompson interviews murderers, rapists and muggers who reveal why they target certain people. Don't risk being unprepared when a violent predator gets you in his sights. Updated and with new photographs.This in not simply a step-by-step guide to winning fights. It is also an in-depth study of the criminal mind at work. Murderers, rapist and muggers reveal why they targeted certain people for attack, which crimes are opportunistic and which are premeditated. Geoff Thompson uses these interviews, and his own unparalleled knowledge of violent encounters, to teach precautionary measures that everyone can take to make themselves less venerable and explains what victims should do when confronted by an attacker. The choice is yours: learn from this proven master of self-defence and increase tour odds of remaining alive, or risk being unprepared when a violent predator gets you in his sights. One of the few real self-protection guides on the market today, this book will teach you first and foremost how to avoid violent situations. But should you find yourself in one, it will also show you how to control yourself and your emotions so you can function on a physical level to defend yourself.

this Step-by-step Guide To Winning Fights Is Also An In-depth Study Of The Criminal Mind At Work. Murderers, Rapists And Muggers Reveal Why They Target Certain People, Which Crimes Are Opportunistic And Which Are Premeditated. This Edition Has Been Thoroughly Revised.

Whenever I talk about the need for self-protection, invariably someone will say, "You're scaremongering."