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Holistic Guidance - Logic of Steel: A Fighter's View of Blade and Shank Encounters
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List Price: $24.00
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Manufacturer: Paladin Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.8
EAN: 9781581601305
ISBN: 1581601301
Label: Paladin Press
Manufacturer: Paladin Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher: Paladin Press
Studio: Paladin Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Logic of Steel is not about the art of knife fighting. Its sole purpose is to capture the cold, hard, logical nature of edged-weapon encounters as experienced by author James LaFond and more than 90 other people. This analysis of more than 250 knife fights is told from the perspective of the attackers, eyewitnesses and victims. The action is broken down by weapon type and use patterns. The circumstances, motivations and mechanics of real-world blade and shank encounters are illuminated through the use of gripping (and sometimes comical) first-person accounts, photographs and hard statistics. The author also examines the psychology, injury patterns and legal ramifications of knife fighting, as well as providing invaluable tips on preventing clinches and groundfighting from escalating into a knife fight, surviving unarmed against a blade-armed assailant, "dressing for success" against a knife fight, spotting a knifer and predicting his behavior before it's too late, assessing when it is in your best interest to run for your life instead of fighting a knife-wielding opponent and much more.
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Summary: Don't Be Fooled By the Cover!
Comment: With all due respect to Mr. LaFond, the picture on the cover of this book does it no justice. This is not another "blowhard martial arts expert" selling the latest weapons disarming techniques.
That's not what the book is about at all.
Instead, Mr. LaFond started out with a question. What REALLY happens in violent encounters with one or more individuals armed with edged weapons? He documented hundreds of encounters and what he found out may shatter alot of commonly held myths. A few points:
-Most people are butchered with junk, items that cost less than $10, including pocket knives, kitchen knives, screwdrivers, cutting razors, scissors, etc...
-Many people didn't realize they had been stabbed until the encounter was over.
-Most attacks were against unarmed victims, assassination style. (No West Side Story knife duels)
Certainly not for the faint of heart, some of the encounters described quite grisly, this book is fascinating if you've ever asked the question yourself, or have endured martial arts wrist manipulation disarming instruction and asked yourself "Would this REALLY work?"
The strength and weakness of this book is LaFond is an independent operator. His statistical compilation techniques are not very scientific: the information is from sources that include news accounts, interviews, newspaper clippings, eyewitness accounts, etc...)
The strength of the book is LaFond arrives with no preconceived agendas and was obviously not out to sell a self defense method or product. Instead, this was an earnest attempt to answer his own questions.
Full of hair raising (and sometimes comical) accounts of edged weapon encouters, with only a few techniques that LaFond things could be helpful in such an encouter, this book makes for some interesting reading if you are interested in the subject, and have reached the age of cynicism and want to know the truth and not the Hollywood version.
I certainly respect LaFond's effort. A recommended read.
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Summary: A Handsome Devil
Comment: I was taken by the cover. That is one bad-lookin' dude, like a rat caught in your headlights. So I bought the book to throw folders at that guy's countenance. When I get good at dismembering his face, I'll look him up (probably starting in the Italian section of Philadelphia) and try to have at him. Everything inside the book is like your mom's apple pie after she has productively coughed into it before baking.
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Summary: Great study material
Comment: Get this book and study it. Then ask yourself if your "knife fighting master/instructor/teacher" is telling you the truth about reality, or is he only selling you smoke.
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Summary: Great book
Comment: A must read for the student of the knife. No angles, no sparring, do dancing. Just reality. Five stars.
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Summary: Knife fighting
Comment: If you read what's told in this book, and compares with your own experience (if any), and then go and browse several books on the subject, you'll probably get to the same conclusion I did: many writers have no idea of what's a real confrontation involving a knife, neither have any understanding of the dynamics in such situations.
This, obviously, is not the case with "Logic of Steel". Each anecdote or case is full of information that will add knowledge to your point of view, and it deals with more than knife fightings. Worth every penny.
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