Kelly McCann

Learn to prevail in any street conflict with the devastatingly effective principles and brutal techniques of Combatives for Street Survival-Hard-core Countermeasures for High-risk Situations. Regardless of whether you are in Baghdad or Boston, author Kelly McCann's gritty portrayal of violence will teach you how to:

Train realistically with a partner for street confrontations.
Create opportunities fo overwhelm an opponent with power.
Identify traits and avoid conflicts.
Develop the right, mind-set for facing life-threatening stiuations.
Execute techniques under duress but with destructive resutls.

Filled with kicks, stirkes and skills that soldiers and civilians have successfully implementsd, Combatives for Street Survival-Hard-core Countermeasures for High-risk Situations will show you how to dominate would-be attackers in an violent an unexpected assault?

'McCann has kept his hands dirty for the 28 years I've known him, staying in the fight and has served, as warriors do. This book contains his direct, unflinching opinions about close combat, and he ought to know.'-General A.M. Gray, 29th Commandant USMC and former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

'If you're serious about self-defense, don't settle for theory. Buy this book and get the real deal.'-Michael Janich, founder of Martial Blade Concepts

'Kelly McCanns combatives mentality is as honest and straightforward as it can get.'-Pat Miletich, five-time UFC champion

'Kelly McCann approaches the study of combatives from a scientifically based model of 'what and why,' but does so with an almost religious fervor to find the 'best way.''-Jim McDonnell, Los Angeles Police Department Chief of Staff

'Kelly McCann is probably the toughest person I know and one of the smartest. Both qualitites are on display in this terrific book, which is not only wise and useful but a compelling read.'-Tucker Carlson, journalist and author

Kelly McCann is a combatives instructor and former Marine with more than 25 years of experience in self-defense. He is also the founder and president of Crucible, a high-risk-environment training provider that serves Department of Defense special-missions units and federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Contents

Dedication
Ackowledgments
Preface
Part I
Chapter 1 What are combatives?
How are combatives different form martial arts?
Combatives thinking
Are combatives a style?
Elements of combatives curriculum
Current state of combatives
Reader beware!
Chapter 2 Realitites of a confrontation
Practicing avoidance
Situational awareness, pre-incident indicators and attack-recognition skills
Four solutions-One attack
Jungle rules and the nature of people
Physiological effects of imminent danger
How to mitigate duress dysfunctions
Combatitives traits and characteristics
Combatives mind-set
So how wo I 'win'?
Confrontations in real life
Part II
Chapter 3 Combatives principles
Principle No. 1 Go armed
Principle No. 2 Avoid offensively
Principle No. 3 Clear your body of the attck
Principle No. 4 Apply power explosively
Principle No. 6 Use the right weapon
Principle No. 7 Rely on gross-motor movements
Principle No. 8 Build and crash the gap
Principle No. 9 Full body-weight striking
Principle No. 10 Repetitive striking
Principle No. 11 Alternate high and low strikes
Principle No. 12 Incidental striking
Principle No. 13 Unarmed double taps
Principle No. 14 Rage with reason
Chapter 4 Combatives methodology
To bang or not to bang-how hard is hard enough?
Training ground rules
A proper mind-set
Heightened aggressiveness
Initialliy adapting to your attacker, then making him adapt to you
Branching (rapid target acquisition)
Consistent strong finishes
Organizing combatives training
Conduct of training
Training aids and safety
Striking pads, training aids and implements
Improvised training equipment
Facsimile weaons
First aid
Chapter 5 Combatives positions and movements
The index position
The guard position
Comatives shuffle
Vaulting
Out-of-line movements
Swaying and hollowing out
Chapter 6 Defensive skills
Fending
Checking
Blocking hand and elbow strikes
Blocking knee strikes
Blocking kicks
Blocking weapon attacks
Blocking stick attacks
Blocking edged weapons
Block, trap and lock
Environmental advantage
Chapter 7 Comatives strikes
Finger jab
Hammerfist
Face mash
Reaction speed and regulationg force
Ax hand
Cupped-hand strikes
Chin jab: A combatives classic
Spearing elbow
Slashing elbow
Straight knee
Knee lift
Shin kick
Toe kick
Angle/hook kick
The stomp
Low destructive kick
Summary: Defensive Kills Oops, I mean skills
Part III
Chapter 8 Unarmed situational self-offense
Criminal use of force
Lawful use of pre-emptive force
The scenarios
Pissed off in the parking lot
Rambunctious rogue at the restaruant
The perils of partying
Hotel horror show
Things get hairy waiting for Harry
The stinker in the stairway
Terror in the toilet
Surviving on a shoestring
Brick vs. BlackBerry
Ruins rubicon
Afterword
About the author
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