Armed Combat: Defending yourself against hand-held weapons

Armed Combat: Defending yourself against hand-held weapons

by Martin J Dougherty
Armed Combat: Defending yourself against hand-held weapons

Armed Combat: Defending yourself against hand-held weapons

by Martin J Dougherty

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Overview

Overhead block, upward stab, step-through lunge, bayonet slash; knife fighting, handgun shooting, sword play. If your enemy is armed, you need to know how to deal with him. SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat teaches a huge range of armed close combat techniques, including tips on fighting stances and postures, movement and evasions, quick draws, parries, fend-offs, blocks, cuts, thrusts, strikes, and stabs. Our expert author will teach you how to tackle single opponents and groups using blunt weapons, blades, firearms, and improvised weapons.
Presented in an easy to follow format, SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat is divided into separate chapters covering fighting skills mindset, what to attack and where to defend, blunt weapons, sharp and pointed weapons, firearms, unarmed techniques, training drills, and improvised techniques. The author also offers plenty of short, handy tips on key topics such as bayonet training, quick draw techniques, copying with injury and dirty tricks.
Written in easy-to-understand steps and accompanied with more than 150 black-and-white illustrations, SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat guides the reader through everything they need to know to overcome an armed aggressor in any hand-to-hand combat situation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781909160729
Publisher: Amber Books
Publication date: 12/16/2013
Series: SAS and Elite Forces Guide
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 6 MB
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Martin J. Dougherty is a freelance writer specializing in military and defence topics. He is the author of Medieval Warrior, SAS and Elite Forces Guide Extreme Unarmed Combat, and SAS and Elite Forces Guide Sniper, Small Arms: From the Civil War to the Present Day, and books on personal self-defence. He lives in northern England.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: THE ESSENCE OF ARMED COMBAT
1. Fighting Skills and Mindset
2. What to Attack and Where to Defend
3. Weapon Threat versus Weapon Use

PART TWO: USING WEAPONS
4. Blunt Weapons
5. Sharp and Pointed Weapons
6. Firearms
7. Improvised and Miscellaneous Weapons
8. ‘Unarmed’ Techniques in Armed Combat
9. Weapon Training Drills

PART THREE: IN ACTION
10. Unarmed or Improvised Response
11. With Blunt Weapons
12. With Sharp or Pointed Weapons
13. Fighting with Guns

Final Notes
Glossary
Index

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