Your Personal Handbook of Self-Defense Book by Gene LeBell & LC Coughran (Hardcover)(Preowned)

The term "self-defense" has come to mean any system of close physical combat, offensive as well as defensive. It is in this broader sense that this book approaches the subject. This is a well-rounded book on physical combat and covers the rudiments of boxing, wrestling, judo, ju-jitsu, and karate, drawing from each system those methods which best solve a given problem.

In its raw, practical sense, physical combat cannot be considered a sport . .. at least not since the days of the gladiators. Boxing, wrestling, judo and other similar sports, with their national variations, have been the result of organized and scientific efforts to make civilized use of man's inborn belligerence. As a result, the most deadly techniques, and those likely to result in great bodily harm, have necessarily been omitted from each of these sports. Those outlawed methods obviously, when cataloged and studied, form the beginnings of any system of serious physical combat.

Gene LeBell and L. C. Coughran are recognized authorities in a Japanese "art" which is rapidly becoming an American sports craze. Both are holders of the coveted "Black Belt" award (judo's highest) and both are well known as expert instructors. Mr. LeBell says, "Much of this book was written into tournament records, on gymnasium blackboards, and in students' notebooks over more than a dozen years of active competition and practice. Every single technique has been 'field tested' personally and proven successful." Gene LeBell op-rates his own judo school in Hollywood, California.

Contents:

FOREWORD
THE COMBATIVE SPORTS - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
Special Needs of Peace Officers
Legal Aspects of Physical Combat and Self-Defense
Psychology of Self-Defense
Strategy
Comparative Analysis of Striking and Grappling
PRESSURE POINTS, LEVERAGE, AND BALANCE
HAND, WRIST, ARM, AND CLOTHING ESCAPES
ESCAPES FROM COMMON HOLDS
COUNTERING COMMON BLOWS AND KICKS
CLUB, KNIFE, AND PISTOL DISARMING
EVICTION, SEIZURE, AND ESCORT HOLDS - RIOT CONTROL WITH NIGHTSTICK
DEFENSE FOR WOMEN
MENTAL CONDITIONS, DRUNKENNESS, HYSTERIA, AND NARCOTIC ADDICTS
FUNDAMENTALS OF BOXING
DEFENSE AGAINST BOXING
FUNDAMENTALS OF WRESTLING
DEFENSE AGAINST WRESTLING
FUNDAMENTALS OF JUDO
DEFENSE AGAINST JUDO
FUNDAMENTALS OF KARATE
DEFENSE AGAINST KARATE
MULTIPLE ASSAILANTS
INDEX

Length: 145 pages

Publication date: 1964