Bouncer's Guide to Barroom Brawling: Dealing with the Sucker Puncher, Streetfighter, and Ambusher Book by Peyton Quinn (Preowned)

In a barroom brawl, where your assailant doesn't care how pretty he looks when he blindsides you and then stomps you into a bloody mess, the formal training procedures and flashy moves you practiced in the dojo will be useless. Author Peyton Ouinn knows.

As a bouncer in a biker bar, having been attacked by fists, boots, pool cues, and knives, Quinn has learned a thing or two about what goes down in a real fight. As a black belt, he has also learned that martial arts training is useful in a brawl, but it is no substitute for experience. An active participant in dozens of fights and a witness to scores more, Quinn has separated fighting facts from fighting fantasy, and the result is a unique guide to self-defense that can save your ass in places where brawling is quick, dirty, and very violent.

In this book, Quinn draws on his experiences to reveal the psychology, strengths, and weaknesses of a sucker puncher, the characteristics of a real fight (you might be surprised); ways of dealing with aggressive people; and tips and tricks for avoiding an ambush. He then presents the two basic defensive moves that can be applied to most every type of attack, the most effective counterstrikes that he has used dozens of times to defeat stronger and larger opponents, and the ins and outs of grappling, throws, and escapes. Quinn uses accounts of his own battles to illustrate key points and offers straightforward drills to perfect individual techniques as well as the all-important underlying concepts that make them so effective. Finally, he takes a critical and practical look at the effectiveness of the most popular martial arts being taught in the United States.

Length: 264 pages

Publication date: 1990