When Seconds Count
Everyone's Guide to Self Defense
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
When Seconds Count is a comprehensive, scientific, yet street-smart approach to how law-abiding citizens can defend themselves against the mounting threat of violent crime, which strikes another victim in America every 25 seconds. You can't learn this in a martial arts dojo. In fact, there are many instructors out there who are doing a lot more harm than good by making people believe they are trained to cope with vicious street criminals. The techniques that score points and win trophies could get you killed in real world self defense encounters.
Self defense expert, Sammy Franco is no stranger to criminal violence. He is the author of thirteen books and the innovator of Contemporary Fighting Arts, a bold combat system that allows you to cut through the ceremony and posturing of traditional martial arts and break self defense down to its simplest elements: practical skills, proven techniques and the confidence to use both on armed and unarmed criminal assailants.
Learn how to hone your awareness skills, assess threat levels, de-escalate situations before they turn violent, convert your body into a weapon and cope with the aftermath of violence.
When seconds count....you don't have time for mistakes.
Customer Reviews
Absolutely essential!
The world is a dangerous place, and you need to be prepared. That's the message. "When Seconds Count: Everyone's Guide to Self-Defense" starts off with an almost depressing review of what life is really like. I say depressing in the fact that most of us seem to live in a nice little bubble on the Earth where nothing bad can really happen to us, or so we think. This book immediately bursts that bubble by showing us what the REAL world around us is like whether we have previously acknowledged it or not. The purpose is not to depress us or cause paranoid fear, but to educate the reader as to the realities of what can and often does happen when we least expect it.
The following segment covers the differences between the author's own fighting system "CFA" or "Contemporary Fighting Arts" and the more common "Traditional Martial Arts" such as Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, Ju-Jitsu and the like. Subsequent sections go into topics like: Awareness, Assessment, De-Escalation, Fighting Back, Weapons and the Author's Closing statements which are every bit as valuable as the rest of the book.
The segment which hit me most was the section on "Awareness." It asked question after question which in application really makes you think about how safety minded you REALLY are. It even includes a questionnaire which IMO very accurate assesses how likely you are to be attacked by a criminal assailant. This section alone was more than worth the cost of the book to me and it provided more education on the topic of situation/tactical awareness than did almost twenty years of other more "traditional" martial arts and self-defense training. I absolutely recommend this book to EVERYONE!