| The Brutal Art of Ripping, Poking, and Pressing Vital | | | | snapping your hand back as if you are ripping a |
| Targets" by Loren W. Christensen is a book full of | | | | bandage off a wound. Or how about going Mike |
| what some people would call dirty fighting techniques. | | | | Tyson on your opponent's ear by chomping his ear |
| But as Christensen points out, all fighting is dirty. This | | | | with prejudice? Christensen advises that you tear |
| is not sport, it's fighting. In the ugliness that is a | | | | into his ear like a dog on a rabbit, jerking your head |
| street fight, techniques to the eyes, throat, ears, | | | | from side to side. |
| groin, nerve points, and other acutely vulnerable | | | | These are the kinds of techniques this book is full of. |
| targets are not foul, but necessary to ensure you go | | | | These techniques are not pretty, there are not |
| home unhurt and it is your attacker that regrets | | | | flashy for the movie screen, but these techniques |
| attacking you. | | | | could just save your life. In real fights, you don't |
| While this book is over 270 pages, it has less written | | | | know what you are going to be able to do. You |
| words than many of Christensen's books. There are | | | | often just take what you can get and count your |
| over 400 clear photographs illustrating the techniques | | | | blessings that you were able to get that. These |
| Christensen provides in this text. Christensen's criteria | | | | techniques may be the only ones you have |
| for techniques included in this book were that they | | | | opportunity to use, and if you read this book, add |
| be simple, they hurt, they are executable within just | | | | the techniques to your repertoire, and practice them |
| a few inches of space, they give direction to the | | | | so that you can use them when needed, they may |
| attacker, and they have psychological and physical | | | | be just the thing that turns the table on your |
| shock value. | | | | attacker and provides you with the arsenal to be the |
| The book is full of pictures of simple applications of | | | | victor in an otherwise drastic situation. |
| ripping, poking, pinching, twisting and pressing. These | | | | This book has nothing to do with sport. However, if |
| techniques may not be the first that come to mind | | | | you are interested in practical, realistic, and |
| when people think of fighting. Punching, kicking, and | | | | sometimes extremely brutal, techniques for real |
| grappling probably top most people's lists. Well, after | | | | self-defense, this book belongs on your self-defense |
| reading this book, you won't think a pinch is just a | | | | book shelf. Just make sure you read it, and practice |
| pinch any longer. Christensen's techniques include | | | | what it contains. |
| things such as pinching your attacker's eyelid and | | | | |