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Who Is This Book For?
Ultimately, this book is for everyone who wants to learn effective techniques for fighting and surviving on the streets. Fighters of all stripes will find something of use in this book: from the novice who is starting out in martial arts, to the experienced practitioner who wants additional combative techniques and concepts.
Introduction
“To understand combat one must approach it in a very simple and direct manner.”
—Bruce Lee1
We rarely have the luxury of knowing when or where our next fight will be. For most of us that’s because we’re not looking to pick a fight in the streets. But it’s good to know that you’re ready for it when the time comes. When you train with simplicity and practicality in mind, then you know you can defend yourself with the most efficient and effective methods, concepts, and techniques. The popularity of mixed martial arts is the latest phenomenon that supports this conclusion.
Mixed martial arts echoes a common Bruce Lee maxim that says one should “absorb what is useful and disregard what is useless.”2 Also, directness, simplicity and effectiveness are concepts that the U.S. military advocates for fighting in armed and unarmed combat. As a result, the self-defense that the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps teaches their service members incorporates many techniques from the mixed martial arts world.