"BlitzDefence – Attack is the best Defence" is the 12th specialist martial arts book written and/or published by Keith R. Kernspecht. Its subject matter is the much neglected type of combat which occurs everywhere many thousands of times each year, with many serious injuries and even fatalities. In this form of ritual combat the typical martial artist almost always comes off second-best against the unscrupulous street thug. Kernspecht explains why, describes the atavistic rituals and phases of these one-sided, five-second fights and shows how the situation can be defused by visual and verbal means or body language. He also explains, however, that there are certain people, e.g. acting under the influence of alcohol or drugs, who can only be stopped by the use of even greater violence. As the ultimate response to such a threat he has developed a unique training programme which has been tried and tested by elite police units and consists of just a few highly effective techniques which will rapidly put an attacker out of action.

In developing this programme the author has drawn on the knowledge and experience of the most successful wrestlers, karateka, boxers, special police units, doormen and also convicted thugs, combining these with his own more than 40 years experience as a martial artist, police officer, bodyguard and head of a personal protection agency, Professor of education and sports sciences at foreign universities and visiting instructor to int. elite police units such as the FBI (USA), SEK and GSG9 (Germany), RAID (France), NOCS (Italy), the Cantonal Police of Zurich (Switzerland), the Bulgarian anti-terrorist unit and GIP (Luxembourg).

BlitzDefence – Attack is the best Defence, 202 pages, over 290 colour photos,
EUR 16.75
ISBN 3-927553-10-7


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