Books: MA and SD

This in not simply a step-by-step guide to winning fights. It is also an in-depth study of the criminal mind at work. Murderers, rapist and muggers reveal why they targeted certain people for attack, which crimes are opportunistic and which are premeditated.

Geoff Thompson uses these interviews, and his own unparallel knowledge of violent encounters, to teach precautionary measures that everyone can take to make themselves less vunerable and explains what victims should do when confronted by an attacker.

The choice is yours: learn from this proven master of self-defence and increase tour odds of remaining alive, or risk being unprepaded when a violent predator gets you in his sights.

Animal Day explores the myths about what does and does not work on violent streets. The reader is educated in all aspects of pressure testing the martial arts to ensure that character and technique are not lacking when the situation becomes "live".

As seen on Channel 4's Passengers, Loaded Magazine, Maxim Magazine, MAI Magazine etc.

Ground Fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. 95% of all street fights that are not finished within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor. Are you prepared? This series of books prepares you with the very best of Wrestling, Ju-jitsu, Judo etc. covering ground control, bars, locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, butts, bites, tearing, gouges etc., reintroducing the many illegal and banned techniques from the beginning of the century.

Pins are the bedrock of any ground fighting system. Once you have mastered these everything else will follow. How to gain control and completely dominate even the biggest opponent from every and any angle - on the ground - using base techniques - and finish from the same position using pummelling atemi (striking) techniques.

How to escape from every ground hold and turn a bad fight into a victory. Escapes from head locks, mounts, side and upper 4 1/4 chokes etc. Knowledge of the escapes allows you to be calm on the ground and turn a disadvantage into an advantage. Including actual all-out fight footage for illustration.

Ground Fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. 95% of all street fights that are not finished within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor. Are you prepared? This series of books prepares you with the very best of Wrestling, Ju-jitsu, Judo etc. covering ground control, bars, locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, butts, bites, tearing, gouges etc., reintroducing the many illegal and banned techniques from a century ago.

The most devastating finish of all is the choke/strangle. This book demonstrates choke/strangle KO's from multiple positions: underneath, on top, from the knees, the mount etc. demonstrating graphically how to send even the biggest opponent to sleep under 3 seconds.

Ground Fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. 95% of all street fights that are not finished within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor. Are you prepared? This series of books prepares you with the very best of Wrestling, Ju-jitsu, Judo etc. covering ground control, bars, locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, butts, bites, tearing, gouges etc., reintroducing the many illegal and banned techniques from a century ago.

The most aesthetic and yet devastating finishers of all: the bars and locks. Covers arm bars, face bars, leg/ankle/foot bars, finger locks, neck cranks from every position, all used to control or ultimately destroy an opponent on the ground.

Ground Fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. 95% of all street fights that are not finished within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor. Are you prepared? This series of books prepares you with the very best of Wrestling, Ju-jitsu, Judo etc. covering ground control, bars, locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, butts, bites, tearing, gouges etc., reintroducing the many illegal and banned techniques from a century ago.

Most fighters' worst nightmare is being pinned on their back. This book deals with defences and attacks from that position and shows that it can often be a very favourable position when you have the knowledge. Deals with escaping or finishing with strikes, chokes, broken strangles, leg strangles, bars, butts, bites, gouges etc.

Ground Fighting is one of the most underestimated and yet devastatingly ferocious of all the Martial Arts. 95% of all street fights that are not finished within the first 3 seconds end up on the floor. Are you prepared? This series of books prepares you with the very best of Wrestling, Ju-jitsu, Judo etc. covering ground control, bars, locks, chokes, strangles, cranks, butts, bites, tearing, gouges etc., reintroducing the many illegal and banned techniques from a century ago.

Take-downs, pins, chokes, bars, atemi and defences from the kneeling position, under his all-fours, over his all-fours or kneeling at the opponent's side or him kneeling at your side.

This illustrated manual takes the martial artist step by step through everything necessary to convert their skills for use in the ‘street’. The Pavement Arena is Geoff Thompson talking reality training at his absolute best. Not just about the physical changes needed to make dojo techniques stand up to a real affray but also the mind-set and emotional control (and how to develop it) needed to enter the most unforgiving arena, The Pavement Arena.

The final book in the REAL series. This volume includes devastating head, knee and elbow techniques from every range.

Grappling (wrestling) is probably the oldest genre of combat known to man. Throughout the world, wrestling and grappling have been a part of every culture, probably due to the fact that pulling, holding, lifting and carrying are far more natural to us as living and working human beings than punching or striking.

Geoff Thompson’s extensively illustrated manual takes you step by step through all the moves and techniques needed to become competent in the grappling arts. These techniques can be used to complement other forms of martial arts, or used alone in close range self defence.

Learn to pack a powerful punch with this illustrated manual that includes all the necessary moves and techniques to become competent in the punching arts.

The realities on kicking in the street scenario are unveiled once and for all in this concise, professional and down-to-earth book. All the moves and techniques neede to become competent in the kicking arts are included in this illustrated manual.

During the fight or flight syndrome we experience what is known as 'mid brain' where we are not discernable from animals and our only concern is that of survival. Our instinct in mid brain then is 'to run' away as opposed to 'stand and fight'. This instinct is deeply embedded in our genes and goes back thousands of years to our Mammalian ancestry where assailants were too great to stand and fight and 'flight' was always the favoured response. The art of posturing works on this proven premise and teaches you how to trigger mid brain in a potential assailant and literally frighten him into 'flight instinct' (so that he runs away) and beat him without becoming physical. It also helps to explain (and therefore give solace) why we feel like running away from all confrontational moments in life and how we can train ourselves and our students to overcome this natural instinct when perhaps runninf away is not in our best interests.

This unique protection principle, developed and used by Geoff succesfully thousands of times in live situations is explored in this book in its entirety. It teaches the reader how to be in charge - without the potential assailant realising - fron the very first second of an encounter until its culmination. The fence is the most innovative technique to enter the field of protection for many many years. Learn it here from the inventor himself.

Dimensions: 325 x 156 mm
Number of pages: 96
ISBN: 1 84024 028 8
Publication Date: March 2001

Ground fighting is taking the martial arts world by storm . . . but how do you get to the ground safely and end in a prone position? What are the dangers of throwing and taking an opponent over? Geoff teaches you how to control vertical grappling and destroy an assailant with a demolishing throw, including the original ‘blow before throw’ techniques banned from sport grappling a hundred years ago. Geoff is qualified in all the different forms of grappling and teaches with a realistic bent. A must for any one who wants to survive a close range encounter in a REAL situation.

Geoff Thompson draws upon many years of dealing with raw street violence to produce a series of books that treat martial arts with an edge of reality, making them far more reliable as methods of self defence.

In this fully illustrated Throws and Take-Downs manual he covers multiple throwing techniques from Freestyle Wrestling.

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"Dimensions: 235 x 156 mm
Number of pages: 96
ISBN: 1 84024 029 6
Publication Date: March 2001

Ground fighting is taking the martial arts world by storm . . . but how do you get to the ground safely and end in a prone position? What are the dangers of throwing and taking an opponent over? Geoff teaches you how to control vertical grappling and destroy an assailant with a demolishing throw, including the original ‘blow before throw’ techniques banned from sport grappling a hundred years ago. Geoff is qualified in all the different forms of grappling and teaches with a realistic bent. A must for any one who wants to survive a close range encounter in a REAL situation.

Geoff Thompson draws upon many years of dealing with raw street violence to produce a series of books that treat martial arts with an edge of reality, making them far more reliable as methods of self defence.

In this fully illustrated Throws and Take-Downs manual he covers multiple throwing techniques from Greco-Roman Wrestling."

Dimensions: 235 x 156 mm
Number of pages: 96
ISBN: 1 84024 026 1
Publication Date: March 2001

Ground fighting is taking the martial arts world by storm . . . but how do you get to the ground safely and end in a prone position? What are the dangers of throwing and taking an opponent over? Geoff teaches you how to control vertical grappling and destroy an assailant with a demolishing throw, including the original ‘blow before throw’ techniques banned from sport grappling a hundred years ago. Geoff is qualified in all the different forms of grappling and teaches with a realistic bent. A must for any one who wants to survive a close range encounter in a REAL situation.

Geoff Thompson draws upon many years of dealing with raw street violence to produce a series of books that treat martial arts with an edge of reality, making them far more reliable as methods of self defence.

In this fully illustrated Throws and Take-Downs manual he covers multiple throwing techniques from Judo - Tachi Waza.

long_description
"Dimensions: 235 x 156 mm
Number of pages: 96
ISBN: 1 84024 027 X
Publication Date: March 2001

Ground fighting is taking the martial arts world by storm . . . but how do you get to the ground safely and end in a prone position? What are the dangers of throwing and taking an opponent over? Geoff teaches you how to control vertical grappling and destroy an assailant with a demolishing throw, including the original ‘blow before throw’ techniques banned from sport grappling a hundred years ago. Geoff is qualified in all the different forms of grappling and teaches with a realistic bent. A must for any one who wants to survive a close range encounter in a REAL situation.

Geoff Thompson draws upon many years of dealing with raw street violence to produce a series of books that treat martial arts with an edge of reality, making them far more reliable as methods of self defence.

In this fully illustrated Throws and Take-Downs manual he covers multiple throwing techniques from Sombo Russian Wrestling."

The majority of attacks/fights last less than 3 seconds and are preceded by aggressive or disarming dialogue. This book trains you to read the body language and the attack ritual of bad intention and "stop" your attacker in the blink of an eye by using a physical and/or psychological "fence" and cripple shooting attack.

The book also covers "ambush attacks" and "match fighting" and how to distinguish between and train realistically for all three.

This illustrated book shows the routines that helped Geoff become one of the world's leading martial artists.

Whatever your art, there is a routine in this book that will give you the muscular armour to place you a cut above the rest.