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Paperback, New edition
Published: 1st October 2016
Hardback, New edition
Published: 11th January 2024
Training for Sudden Violence: 72 Practice Drills
By (Author) Rory Miller
Foreword by Wim Demeere
YMAA Publication Center
YMAA Publication Center
11th January 2024
New edition
United States
General
Non Fiction
613.66
Winner of USA Best Books Award 2008 (United States)
Hardback
262
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
The speed and brutality of a predatory attack can shock even an experienced martial artist. The sudden chaos, the cascade of stress hormonesyou feel as though time slows down. In reality, the assault is over in an instant. How does anyone prepare for that As a former corrections sergeant and tactical team leader, Rory Miller is a proven survivor. He instructs police and corrections professionals who, in many cases, receive only eight hours of defensive tactics training each year. They need techniques that work and they need unflinching courage.
In Training for Sudden Violence, 72 Practical Drills, Miller gives you the tools to prepare and prevail, both physically and psychologically. He shares hard-won lessons from a world most of us hope we never experience.
Train in fundamentals, combat drills, and dynamic fighting.
Develop situational awareness.
Condition yourself through stress inoculation.
Take a critical look at your training habits.
Rory Miller is a writer and teacher living peacefully in the Pacific Northwest. He has served for seventeen years in corrections as an officer and sergeant working maximum security, booking and mental health; leading a tactical team; and teaching subjects ranging from Defensive Tactics and Use of Force to First Aid and Crisis Communications with the Mentally Ill. For fourteen months he was an advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System working in Baghdad and Kurdish Sulaymaniyah. Somewhere in the midst of that he received a BS degree in Psychology; served in the National Guard as a Combat Medic (91A/B); earned college varsities in judo and fencing and received a mokuroku in jujutsu. He has drunk chichu with reformed cannibals and 18-year-old scotch with generals...and loves long sword fights on the beach. Wim Demeere began training at the age of 14, studying the grappling ats of judo and jujitsu for several years before turning to the kick/punch arts of traditional kung fu and full contact fighting. He won four national titles and a bronze medal at the 1995 Word Wushu Championships. In 2001, he became the national coach of the Belgian Wushu fighting team. Wim instructs both business executives and athletes in nutrition, strength, endurance, and martial arts. Wim Demeere lives in Belgium.