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"Dead or Alive" by Geoff Thompson

This is not simply a step-by-step guide to winning fights. It is also an in-depth study of the criminal mind at work. Murderers, rapists and muggers reveal why they targeted certain people for attack, and which crimes are opportunistic and which are premeditated. Geoff Thompson uses these interviews, and his own unparalleled knowledge of violent encounters, to teach precautionary measures that everyone can take to make themselves less vulnerable 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 your odds of remaining alive, or risk being unprepared when a violent predator gets you in his sights.

Price: £18.99 / $36.08

"The Pavement Arena" by Geoff Thompson

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.

Subjects covered include the practical use of Kata, Stances, Blocks, Set Sparring, Punches, Kicks, Free Sparring, Competition Fighting and the development of Fear Control, Action Triggers, Psyche-outs and The Fence.

Price: £10.99 / $20.88

"Animal Day" by Geoff Thompson
In 'Animal Day', probably his most controversial book yet, Geoff explodes the myths about what does and does not work on the unforgiving streets of a violent world, and then educates the reader in all aspects of pressure testing the martial arts to make sure that technique and character are not lacking when a situation becomes 'live'.

Having worked for nine years as a nightclub doorman, acted as a personal trainer to private police and bodyguards, and talked internationally on television about the art of self-protection, Geoff is pivotally placed to advise on 'reality training'.

Price: £10.99 / $20.88

"Five Years - One Kata" by Bill Burgar

When karate was a secret art, practiced in the back yards of Okinawa by a few dedicated masters and their disciples, it was usual to train in a single kata for many years. Through the deep study of a kata, the master karateka would possess a complete self-defence system, he would be well versed in the underlying principles of karate and he would have a memory aid which would map out his complete training regime.

Over the last century, the practice of a single kata has disappeared from karate practice. The deep understanding of a few kata has been replaced by the superficial understanding of many. This book shows you in great detail how to recover that deep understanding and how to put kata back at the heart of karate. This remarkable book also gives the reader a unique insight into the author's own five year study of Gojushiho; compete with applications (in detail) for every single movement.

Price: £27.95 / $53.11

"Fit to Fight" by Peter Consterdine

Fit to Fight teaches you a wide variety of physical training and fighting drills that you need to win in the street. This book will show you how to train for strength, stamina and most importantly, aggression as well as that all important mental edge. This mental edge is developed through hard training drills - Fit to Fight will teach you those drills with over 100 photographs. You need to be fit and strong to win a fight, but more importantly, you have to develop the 'will to win' - the aggression never to give up and never to lose.

Traditional martial arts training poorly covers these aspects and the fighting spirit martial arts develops can disappear when that hollow, sickening feeling of dread and emptiness envelopes one during an intense fight. To be prepared for this, those same feelings should have been duplicated during training so that familiarity with such intensity breeds confidence in combat. This book is not primarily about fitness; rather it is about winning fights. It is about developing a winning attitude and about developing an indomitable spirit.

Price: £17.49 / $33.23

People who bought this item also bought:

1. "Fighting Forms" by Matthew Miller

"Fighting Forms" by Matthew Miller

Kata has always been at the centre of karate. However, during much of the modern era the tenancy has been to perform kata as a solo form only. Fighting Forms presents a method for performing an entire kata (Kushanku / Kanku-Dai) with a partner, using realistic and practical applications; thus returning kata to the heart of karate.

Price: £18.49 / $35.13

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2. Applied Karate Volume 2: Kicking, Defending, and the Real Use of 'Blocks' (DVD)

3. Applied Karate Volume 1: Punches, Hand-Strikes and Limb-Control (DVD)

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