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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 796.81 EAN: 9781886969667 ISBN: 1886969663 Label: YMAA Publication Center Manufacturer: YMAA Publication Center Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 360 Publication Date: 2003-07-25 Publisher: YMAA Publication Center Studio: YMAA Publication Center
Focuses on the use of joint locks, cavity presses and bone misplacement to subdue any aggressor.
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Customer Rating: Summary: Submission holds & joint locks Comment: This is a very impressive book -- well researched, profusely illustrated, and easy to understand. I was especially impressed with the amount of highly detailed information regarding attacks to the throat! Wow: page after page of everything you ever wanted to know about striking the carotid sinus or crushing the airway. From risk factors to Dim Mak points to technique variations to cutaway illustrations to a photo of the author holding a trachea (with larynx & hyoid bone attached).
If you are currently studying Brazilian Ju Jitsu, Chin Na, Pankration, Systema, Krav Maga, or even collegiate wrestling this wealth of data will be simple to comprehend and easy to work into your own style. Invaluable for law enforcement, corrections, security, doormen, and medical orderlies who need to restrain subjects without inflicting undue harm. This book primarily covers pain compliance holds, locks, and chokeouts -- and may well be the definitive work on the subject.
My only complaint is that the author assumes the reader will be able to pull off these techniques flawlessly and incapacitate his adversary without the need for gouging or biting. The topic of eye gouging is barely addressed at all ("move your head to avoid getting poked and use a 2 finger strike to attack St-1") and biting is not mentioned. Maiming techniques are glossed over as well. For a counterpoint which addresses those particular distasteful topics in detail, I recommend "Floorfighting" by Marc MacYoung.
All in all, a great lesson in submission holds, anatomy, and pressure points from a politically correct and morally defensible standpoint by a gifted and knowledgable instructor. Customer Rating: Summary: Get this book Comment: Chin Na in Ground Fighting is a refreshing approach to self-defense when a battle goes to the sidewalk. It's refreshing in that it's not about "ground and pound," as it's called in mixed martial arts (MMA) circles, a rather unfortunate term that implies an adversary be taken down and, well, pounded.
Now, ground fighting is a hot topic in the martial arts, mostly as a result of early televised MMA bouts that exposed this glaring weakness in many fighting systems. In the last few years there has been a glut of books and DVDs on the topic, most of which are written or filmed by competitors or trainers in MMA. This is fine as long as the readers and viewers keep in mind that MMA is a sport. I'm not saying the techniques aren't applicable to real fighting, because most of them are. In fact, some are so effective that they will likely get the defender promptly thrown into jail. Yes, the defender.
When you take that attacker to the ground and, instead of restraining him, running off, or calling 9-1-1, you go down with him and begin to pound, you're likely to be charged with a crime. If it can be determined by the police and by the courts that you could have fled or you could have restrained the attacker, but instead you commenced to pound his head, a head supported by hard cement so that all the energy of your blows goes into his skull, you're going to the slammer.
Of course there are situations in which pounding is called for. But too many books and DVDs teach hitting as an automatic response, no matter what the situation.
Chin Na in Ground Fighting is written by two experts in the art. You're not going to see pounding and stomping but rather polished techniques that are effective and applicable to sport and the street.
The authors provide an intelligent look at why techniques work, why they hurt, why they control and why they restrain. There are lots of clear pictures for the reader who just wants to learn the steps and there is lots of explanation for those who want to know more about the intricacies of the techniques.
The book brings class, dignity and the art back to ground fighting. The authors are even dressed in traditional uniforms. They don't have spiked and dyed hair, they don't strut and brag, they don't snarl at the camera and they don't speak in incoherent sentences. Instead they teach you a ton of techniques using good photography, and well-written text.
And never once pound each other in the face.
Loren W. Christensen, author of Defensive Tactics: Modern Arrest and Control Techniques For Today's Police Warrior and a bunch of others.
Customer Rating: Summary: Excelente libro Comment: Un montón de información sobre controles y puntos de presión útiles en la lucha en el suelo.
Muy elaborado y con buenas fotos e ilustraciones.
Buen trabajo. Customer Rating: Summary: Essential reading for serious martial artists who practice any style Comment: This massive, 360-page tome is cram-packed with valuable information, covering everything that serious martial artists need to know about ground-fighting submission and control techniques. It begins by describing the essential underlying principles and theories that make the techniques work successfully against real-life adversaries and then delves deeply into the fighting applications themselves. Without understanding these subtleties practitioners could struggle for years to pull off the techniques effectively. Like all YMAA publications it really goes in-depth. In addition to the outstanding text and enlightening illustrations, there is a comprehensive index and even a medical glossary at the end. The authors' research, knowledge, and practical experience shines through.
Contents includes general history and principles, the science of technique, pressure points and meridians, body tools and vulnerable points, arm controls (e.g., arm locks, arm bars), leg controls (e.g., ankle locks, knee locks, combinations), head/neck, and body controls, and fighting sequences. The amount of material covered is truly extraordinary. For example, chapters 3 (pressure points of the fourteen meridians) and 4 (body tools and vulnerable points) cover essentially the same kinds of information that Rick Clark described in his ground-breaking book Pressure Point Fighting. The difference is that Arsenault and Faulise make this complex subject much more easily understandable for the average practitioner through a series of comprehensive diagrams and illustrations, while Clark's book relies on words alone. While their knowledge levels are likely the same, Arsenault and Faulise are better writers too.
So, who is this Arsenault guy anyway and why should you listen to him? He is not only a highly skilled martial artist with more than 30 years experience, but also a veteran police officer who uses this stuff for matters of life and death as he patrols the streets of Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). His approach is style agnostic, refreshingly practical and very realistic. His co-author Faulise is a world-class judoka who has been teaching martial arts full time since 1985. Their book is well written and extraordinarily well illustrated, with hundreds of annotated photos and drawings that bring the essential points home. I heartily recommend it to all serious martial artists regardless of the style they practice.
Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults and Martial Arts Instruction; co-author of The Way to Black Belt and The Way of Kata Customer Rating: Summary: Chin Na in Ground Fighting:Principles,Theory and Submission Holds for all martial styles Comment: It provides a good basic history on groundfighting and basic techniques that can be mastered with some practice. Very honest and real.
