No Second Chance: A Reality-Based Guide to Self-Defense

193 Pages·2009·3.61 MB·English

by  Mark Hatmaker

No Second Chance
A Reality-Based Guide
to Self-Defense
Mark Hatmaker
Photography by Doug Werner
TRACKS
Tracks Publishing
San Diego, California
No Second Chance
A Reality-Based Guide to Self-Defense
Mark Hatmaker
Tracks Publishing
140 Brightwood Avenue
TRACKS Chula Vista, CA 91910
PUBLISHING 619-476-7125
Books by Mark Hatmaker
No Holds Barred Fighting:
The Ultimate Guide to Submission Wrestling
More No Holds Barred Fighting:
Killer Submissions
No Holds Barred Fighting:
Savage Strikes
No Holds Barred Fighting:
Takedowns
No Holds Barred Fighting:
The Clinch
No Holds Barred Fighting:
The Ultimate Guide to Conditioning
No Holds Barred Fighting:
The Kicking Bible
Boxing Mastery
No Second Chance
A Reality-Based Guide to Self-Defense
Books are available through major bookstores
and booksellers on the Internet.
This book is dedicated to
the heroes on the front line of
victim aid — all emergency med-
ical technicians, law enforcement
personnel, firefighters, victim
counselors, victim’ s rights advo-
cates and sexual assault centers.
Ultimately our greatest teachers
are the ones we regret acknowl-
edging. The victims and the sur-
vivors. The individuals who have
perished or suf fered great losses
at the hands of the predators of
the world. Their suffering has pro-
vided the data that we use hope-
fully to save lives. In a perfect
world we would gladly run out of
these teachers, but the world isn’t
perfect, and it is because of this
imperfection that I of fer this book.
My sympathy goes to the victims
and their families.
Acknowledgements
Phyllis Carter
Jackie Smith
Kylie Hatmaker
Mitch Thomas
Al Tucker
Shane Tucker
Kory Hays
The fighting arts include contact and can be dan-
gerous. Use proper equipment and train safely.
Practice with restraint and respect for your part-
ners. Drill for fun, fitness and to improve skills.
Do not fight with the intent to do harm.
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Contents
How to use the NHBF manuals 9
1 Thugs, drills and the cold truth 11
2 You’ll never be ready 17
3 Animal planet 21
4 Cause they wanna 25
5 Predator/prey is not an analogy 29
6 You are the offspring of survivors 33
7 There is no middle ground in fight or flight 37
8 Decide now 41
9 Resistance is never futile 44
10 Crime is a product of opportunity 50
11 Know the watering hole 54
12 Your money or your life? 56
13 Run from the gun 60
14 Back to school 64
15 Save others by showing them how to save themselves 67
16 Crime scene #2 72
17 Daydream your nightmares 75
18 Opposable thumbs, the neo-cortex and padded cells 80
19 Myths: patterned responses, women’s self defense and martial arts 86
20 Training 91
21 Natural weapons 103
22 The Tasmanian Devil and Sam Spade 117
23 Pressure points and death touches 123
24 Targets 125
25 Grappling 135
26 The training continuum 141
27 Static and fluid attacks 143
28 Static attacks 145
29 Fluid attacks 179
Resources 186
Index 187
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How to use the NHBF manuals
This book and the others in this series are meant to be used
in an interlocking, synergistic manner where the sum value
of the manuals is greater than the individual parts.What we
are striving to do with each guide is to focus on a specific
aspect of the twin sports of NHB/submission wrestling and
give thoughtful consideration to the necessary ideas, tactics
and strategies pertinent to that focus.We are aware that this
piecemeal approach may seem lacking if one consumes only
one or two manuals. But we are confident that once three or
more manuals have been studied, the overall picture or
method will reveal itself.
Since the manuals are interlocking, there is no single title in
the series that is meant to be complete in and of itself. For
example, although NHBF: Savage Strikes is a thorough com-
pendium on NHB/self-defense striking, it is bolstered with
side-by-side study of Boxing Mastery.While the book NHBF:
Killer Submissions introduces the idea of chaining submis-
sions and can be used as a solitary tool, it is made stronger
by an understanding of the material that preceded it in the
first submission manual.
And so on with each manual in this series.This book is a bit
of an exception since it can be consumed in isolation or it
can be bolstered with NHBF: Savage Strikes, NHBF:The
Kicking Bible or NHBF:The Ultimate Guide to
Conditioning.While training in the highly realistic sports of
MMA/NHB, boxing or wrestling can be a
phenomenal framework for street survival
training, never mistake what is sport for
what is required to survive the unmitigated
ferocity that is criminal violence.
Mark Hatmaker
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