title: Straight to the point self defence: Your Definitive Guide to Self Protection (Volume 1)
author:  Simon Hunt 
description: ABOUT ME I have been studying martial arts for over twenty years now and am an experienced practitioner at black belt level. I have trained with some of the top instructors in my home country and Japan. Ive trained in pretty much all of the most popular, and some not so popular, arts. I also train in self-defence classes with lots of practitioners from various backgrounds including security industries. In these classes, we go through real-life situations that have happened. We focus on replicating the things that work, not necessarily those moves which are considered correct. I myself have over twelve years experience of campus security; over the years dealing with big gangs of trespassers, drunks, burglars, drug addicts/dealers, vandals, arsonists and just unhappy aggressive people. The best I feel is when I am confronted with a situation, lets say a group of aggressive people on my own, and am able to influence them without it turning physical. This I have learnt to do over many years using body language and psychology, some of which you will learn in this book.
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  To my teammates both here and above
  
  
  Introduction
  
  What enables someone to carry a 250-pound man up three flights of stairs while
  taking enemy fire or spend six sleepless days and nights running around with a
  fractured right leg? What allows a man to break through a door knowing full
  well there is someone with an assault rifle on the other side trying to kill
  him? How is it possible to endure continuous physical abuse and confinement in
  a three-by-three-foot concrete box without food for more than a week and
  finish with a smil