Kill-As-Catch-Can: Wrestling Skills for STreetfighting Beamont 1998 Submitter: I think it’s an awful book because of all the violence in the world and this book seems to promote more, with instructions on how to be more violent!! We’re weeding our
Tag: self defense
Fighting Back!
Not At Their Mercy Green 2000 I am not really sure where to begin. Is it the white pumps? (I think my grandmother had a pair of those exact shoes in the early 1970s.) The ridiculous subtitle? (unconscionable? as opposed
Fun with Assault
Looking Forward to Being Attacked Bullard 1977 Since Holly and I are trying get our website in shape, I started thinking about some of our first books. More like a “where are they now” type of moment. This particular book
Intruder!
Intruder in Your Home: How to Defend Yourself Legally With a Firearm Cruit 1983 Submitter: I found this book on my local urban public library. I think it was a good purchase for 1983. A bit scary, but that’s one way to
Surviving Hostage Situations
Surviving Hostage Situations Spear & Moak 1989 Submitter: Given the cover photo, I was surprised that it wasn’t older. You can read this book to learn how to attack your kidnapper, escape safely from captivity, deal with a hijacker on
Groovy Self Defense
Self-Protection Guidebook for Girls and Women Neff and Reid 1977 Submitter: Okay, so this is a pretty serious subject. But it is SO hard to take it seriously, when these pictures are so hilarious! This girl looks like she’s possessed with
Hands Off!
Hands Off!: Hap-ki-do self defence for women Adams and Webster 1986 Now wait just a minute! I was about to say that even though this book is old, its techniques are probably mostly valid to keep it around if it
Girls that kick butt
Self-Defense For Girls: A Secondary School and College Manual Tegner & McGrath 1967 Submitter: Maybe not the most awful book, but the pictures are horribly outdated and I would feel embarrassed pulling it for a patron. Unless of course that