More than one million people were assaulted in the United States last year alone. While society as a whole may look for answers in better police enforcement or tougher laws, the only dependable solution for many people is to be prepared to defend themselves when an attack occurs.

Attack Proof: The Ultimate Guide to Personal Protection presents a proven personal protection system for anticipating and fending off even the most brutal assaults. Unlike most martial arts systems-which teach patterned, choreographed techniques that often don't work during street fights-this system prepares people for violent situations using spontaneity and "guided chaos." People learn to create a defense during attacks using principles of movement and physics. The system is based on the insights, real-world experiences, and forensic research of John Perkins, a New York cop, who is a teacher for hand-to-hand combat instructors in the military and police forces.

Attack Proof provides a wide selection of basic to advanced tactics and principles with nearly 200 accompanying photographs showing correct positioning and maneuvers. Readers learn what to do and not to do in potentially life-threatening situations, including muggings, carjackings, abductions, knife fights, and gunfights. This book is for those who prefer to be prepared and safe rather than susceptible and sorry.

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The author, JOHN PERKINS , June 14, 2000
ATTACK PROOF trains you to become a "MARTIAL REALIST"
1--WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK AND WHY

You're a non-athlete and know nothing about self-defense and want to learn to protect yourself without devoting years to ritual and regimentation.

You're a woman in a man's world of muscle and machismo, and you have neither the genetics nor the disposition for developing an Olympian's physique to deal with a brutal assault.

You're a black belt who's been knocked silly in a bar fight.

You're a street cop who's been placed on temporary suspension because you shot a kid who refused to succumb to the arm-locks you were taught at the academy.

You're a dedicated Tai Chi "push-hands" player who, after 20 years, suddenly realizes two things: 1) that you're no closer to understanding and performing feats of "Chi" then when you started, and 2) you know nothing about fighting.

Ask yourself: what do splits, board-breaking, and high spinning wheel kicks have in common? Answer: they all have nothing to do with self-defense.

A real attack is basically an assassination attempt on your life. The assailant is free to attack with impunity, since his tactics are not limited. He is not bound to any "rules" of combat, and you shouldn't be either. Ironically, the movement dynamics of a real fight have nothing to do with the way most martial arts are trained, and everything to do with nature. Combat is ugly, nasty, and chaotic. Classical training is very often beautiful, choreographed, and predictable. What does this all mean? Spontaneity is the only realistic way to train. We need to become masters of Chaos, not Kata.

2--HOW IS THIS ACHIEVED?

"Attack Proof" introduces a radical principle we call"Guided Chaos." It is a strategy for controlling energy rather than techniques, and becoming a master of random motion. Nevertheless, these principles, by their very nature, are applicable to virtually any style of fighting. Like Bruce Lee's best selling "the Tao of Jeet Kune Do," ATTACK PROOF is a guidebook for the martial development of any martial artist.

Guided Chaos is the "grease" that makes all your other training work better

Attack Proof provides tactics, exercises and drills that have been devised from principles discovered during my years in forensic research. As a retired N.Y. police investigator, my job was to analyze exactly what happened at homicide scenes. Through this work, I became an expert at what it takes to end a life and to save a life. These principles, combined with over 100 violent confrontations on the beat, plus lifelong martial arts training, illegal pit-fighting, and training from the age of 5 in Native American fighting skills, provided a proving ground for the formulation of the methodologies in this book. Since then, they have been used effectively by federal police, U.S. Marines, SWAT Team members and personnel from state and local law enforcement.

Instead of techniques (like: "use an X-block to counter an overhead strike"), we emphasize exercises that improve the student's balance, sensitivity, looseness, hitting power, effectiveness, and the ability to flow spontaneously in a fight without thought. All of these are unique and unavailable in any other martial arts book that we've seen.

It can be argued that women stand to benefit more from the methodologies within "Attack Proof" than from virtually any other book. Any large, well-muscled male can mount some kind of defense once sheer terror and adrenaline kick in. Women can't afford to play nice, and can't rely on "fast-food" self-defense, sport karate, "box-ercise" or any watered down form of "new-age" Tai Chi .

ABOUT JOHN PERKINS John Perkins has been called by The Trends Research Institute "America's Foremost Self-Protection Expert." He has been training and teaching martial arts and self-defense for over 43 years. Perkins has taught hand to hand tactics to Marine Combat units, Marine Scout Sniper units, and Military Joint Task Force/Counter Drug Forces. He has also instructed law enforcement personnel from the FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, the NYPD, NYC Transit Police, NY State Police, Yonkers PD, and Albany PD. He was a bodyguard to the late Malcolm Forbes, a forensic crime scene expert, and one of the nation's top handgun instructors. Perkins has extensive experience in the martial arts of Hapkido, Taekwon Do, Kyukushinkai, Kenpo Karate, Judo, Jujutsu, Goju, and Tai Chi Chuan. Since 1980, he studied the ancient Greek fighting method of Eleftheri Pali (which translates into English as "ruthless combat") with combat expert George Kaperonis. He was also trained from the age of five in Native American fighting principles. He has battled in illegal Pit Fights (a savage forerunner of today's "Ultimate" Competitions). He is the founder (8th Dan) of Ki Chuan Do which translates into "The Way of the Spirit Fist" or simply Ghostfist. KCD is recognized by the International Combat Martial Arts Federation (ICMAF) through which he also holds a 5th degree black belt in Combat Martial Arts. The ICMAF is an organization dedicated to strict realism in Martial Arts.