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Your Style Of Combat
The objective in unarmed combat is to knock out, maim or kill.
You must therefore think always in terms of IMMEDIATE DAMAGE TO THE OPPONENT, of INFLICTING INJURY as opposed to ‘‘controlling’’ or ‘‘holding’’ or ‘restraining'.
Never attempt to get a controlling grip on an attacker.
It is difficult enough to deal effectively with a serious assailant by going ALL OUT, without absolutely handcuffing your potential effectiveness by trying to be kind.
Comealong type holds are OUT.
They are for police to use against weak, juvenile offenders.
Period.
Let no more mention be made of them.
Throwing is also out for women.
There are some valuable combat throws, but a woman’s natural weight and size and power handicap make them inadvisable for her practical use.
Whenever you are in position for a throw, you-can always find some, kick, jab, hack or gouge that can be used with less risk to you, and with far less technical skill.
You will rip, tear, gouge, kick, spit and strike in order to down your enemy.
And you will batter aside his attempts to do the same to you.
Your style of combat will be AGGRESSIVE.
No encounter should last more than thirty seconds.
Remember that you are not fighting ‘rounds’ and that there can be no second place winner!
This is combat for keeps!
You are fighting to survive, and the longer the fight lasts, the greater your chance of losing.
A Realistic Attitude Is Necessary
The writer has instructed many women in unarmed combat.
He has never pretended that he was handing them a ‘sure thing'.
Fighting — like loving — entails risk.
Not only that, but even the victor in a serious fight can expect to be hurt.
Your opponent will be trying to win, also.
And he wants to survive just as badly as you do.
In combat you get ONE chance.
Your body is not as fragile or delicate as you may have been led to believe.
You were built by your Creator to take punishment, and plenty of it!
You have the potential to assimilate enormous punishment if you have great will-power, and STILL fight back.
So don’t coddle yourself.
Expect injury when you fight.
That’s only realistic.
The course of physical training outlined in the next Chapter will make your body three or four times as ‘fighting ready’ as it probably is now.
FOLLOW THAT PROGRAM OF EXERCISE.
There are few targets on your body that are extremely vulnerable to a blow or to pressure.
Your eyes, throat and breasts, as well as your spine number among these.
But regular training will teach you to instinctively protect these areas from an attack.
Do not hesitate to let your arm get slashed, if it means that you’ll save your neck (literally!) by doing so.
Taking an injury on a strong part of your body can give you the chance you need to WIN THE FIGHT AND FOLLOW-UP ON YOUR OWN.
You must expect rough treatment in any fight.
Certain of the exercises in the next Chapter are designed to increase your capacity to absorb just that.
Again I stress:
Aside from specialized and intensive training in the military, the next Chapter’s course of exercises is exactly what you need to get ‘Combat Fit and Ready'.
Stance
It is exceptionally idealistic to think that every clash will be preceded by a confrontation forewarning you to FALL INTO A FIGHTING STANCE.
Learn to act and to react from any position you may be in — even sitting down or lying in bed.
If, in some fortunate case, you do have a chance to see a fight coming, drop into a crouch, stomach tensed, with your forearms poised, as shown in the illustration.
From such a position it is fairly easy to maneuver in any direction, stay well-balanced, and launch any attacks that you may find an opening for.
It is also easiest to deflect the opponent’s attacks from such a position.
Alertness
By simply BEING AWARE of what is going on around you, of WHO is walking behind you, of WHERE you are, etc., you can avoid many instances where the use of force would have been necessary.
You should always walk down the center of the street.
If you walk near the curb, where cars are parked, or near the building entrances, you make it an easy matter for anyone lurking there to grab you.
By being in the middle of the street, however, it becomes necessary for your assailant to come out into the open and approach you, before attacking, and this lets you prepare.
Suppose it’s raining . . .?
Then get wet.
When driving through bad neighborhoods, KEEP THE WINDOWS OF YOUR CAR ROLLED UP, AND THE DOORS LOCKED.
Uncomfortable and inconvenient?
Yes, it is.
Tough.
Some Damn Good Advice:
Do NOT carry such asinine self-defense weapons as a can of hairspray, or a hatpin.
These ‘weapons’ are in reality, only sufficient to get your attacker absolutely INSANE WITH RAGE.
They are okay for use in creating an opening for a better counterattack, but they must never be thought of as protective weapons in their own right.
Unfortunately, firearms are difficult to obtain through legal means in many States.
It is the author’s opinion that today, with crimes of mayhem, rape, murder and robbery on the rise, a good .38 special revolver is one of ‘man’s best friends'.
Surely a heavily armed populace would be a deterrent to the obscene acts of criminal violence being perpetrated every day.
Where the author lives, for example, in New York City, criminals and violent hoodlums roam the streets like packs of rabid dogs, AND IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR A DECENT, LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN TO CARRY A GUN!
Firearms, widely owned by honest people, would cause New York City’s crime rate to drop like a thermometer in the Arctic!
If you can obtain a license to own and carry a gun, then do so.
I recommend that you purchase a Colt or Smith and Wesson .38 Police Special and that you take both a safety and a combat firing course with a professional police or NRA instructor.
A knife remains the ‘‘sidearm’’ of the unfortunate persons who cannot obtain a gun.
And, in all fairness, we must say that a knife is an excellent combat weapon — once you know how to use it.
More will be said about knife technique in Chapter Ten.
The concept which it is crucially important to grasp is that this book, and the whole instruction contained within it, is about WAR.
A small scale war between you and your opponent, instead of one of the larger scale varieties between nations.
In any war, the participants fight to win, not lose.
And they do ANYTHING.
That must be your own philosophy if you wish to be successful in hand-to-hand combat.
You fight all the way to win, without remorse, without hesitation, without mercy and without ‘‘rules’’ of any kind.
Either that, or you get beaten, raped or killed.
It’s just that simple and that brutal.
Legality
There is not a police department anywhere that doesn’t ask all persons to report instances of physical assault, rape attempt, etc.
Their request is, however, not necessarily to your advantage.
Morally, it is my opinion that your only ‘obligation’ is to save yourself.
Many innocent people have been harassed, jailed, inconvenienced, and subjected to enormous humiliation and trouble BECAUSE THEY COMPLIED WITH THE LAW AND TRIED TO BE GOOD CITIZENS.
You must decide for yourself what to do when you are involved in a critical situation, and I do not wish to advise anyone to go against the law.
But I want to say again that I would urge every honest citizen to try his best to look out for himself when he is victimized by a serious physical attack.
Remember: the attacker will never tell the truth if it gets to court!
You must become quite another person to succeed in unarmed combat.
You drop your role of a gentle and ‘soft’ woman, and you become, when necessary, an animal.
You do to the man who assails you exactly what he would do to you — but YOU do it FIRST!
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