Pool Cues, Beer Bottles, and Baseball Bats: Animal's Guide to Improvised Weapons for Self-defense and Survival Book by Marc MacYoung (Preowned)

Would you admit to getting your ass kicked with a hairbrush? Animal would, because he knows it can happen. In fact, any tool that aids and abets knocking someone into next week can be considered a weapon--not just the lethal stuff like guns and knives. This book will widen your definition of what constitutes a weapon to include rope, beer bottles, pens, pool cues, cats, tables and chairs, keys, gin and tonics, and more.

You may be Joe Karate, but your martial arts training is not likely to protect you from a guy coming at you with a tire iron or baseball bat, so you'd better know how to wing it with whatever's close at hand. Here, Animal equips you with the know-how to do just that. You'll get the advanced details that are usually left out of formal training, but that you'll need to defend yourself in a real streetfight. You'll learn how the basic categories of weapons look, feel, and act, so you can keep from getting creamed when somebody tries to use any object, in any manner, to waste you.

Most importantly, you'll begin to look at the things around you in terms of how you'd use them if a guy blew his cool in a bar and threatened to take you out with a pool cue, or if someone were trying to mug, rape, rob, or otherwise offend you. Equipped with a new understanding of weapons and how they work, you'll be able to pick up damn near anything and use it to survive.

About the Author:

Marc MacYoung has never fit well into simple categories. That's because of his diverse past. When his family fell into situational poverty he found himself facing lifestyles and problems that most people have no idea exist, much less have experience dealing with. It was during that time the earned the street name "Animal." Many of his stories start with qualifiers like "The first time I was shot at..." and "The last time I had someone try to stab me..." (It was a long hard climb out of that lifestyle.) Decades of experience in environments and professions where violence was common, would eventually lead him to being a court recognized expert about violence, crime, and self-defense.

This wide ranging background gives him a completely different perspectives of the complex problems involved with personal safety, conflict, violence, and crime avoidance —especially how there are no simple answers (e.g., martial arts or carrying a gun). Those approaches may soothe fears, but they don't actually address danger —or the problems you'll face if you have to use them.

Over the years his works have evolved from that of a streetfighter to taking a more practical approach of avoidance and/or deterrence. This opens far more effective and non-violent options for his readers. As he often says "I'm not about fear management. My goal is danger management. I'm more interested in teaching you how to avoid walking into the lion's jaws than giving you false confidence about doing so."

Length: 137 pages

Publication date: 1990