Real Fighting: Adrenaline Stress Conditioning Through Scenario-based Training

Table of Contents:
Preface An Important Lesson in Combat Attitude Enter the "Carrot Top" First Blood: The Creepy Crimson Makes Its Appearance The Point of this Schoolboy Tale Getting Down to Cases Getting Your Mind Right Chapter 1 - Perfect Intent Is More Important than Perfect Technique It's Always Later than You Think Some Very Important Combat Concepts The Fear Factor An Example of Having One's Mid Right The Essential Cowardice of the Bully The Bully Often Retreats in the Face of a Relaxed Mind Some Interview Techniques You Should Be Aware of The Ideal Combat Mind-Set The Experience of Rage on the Path to Proper Mind Avoidance is Always the Best Self-Defense Strategy The Kareteka Who Fails to Enter the Fight A Familiar Tale of a Karate Dancer A Brawl I Witnessed Involving More than a Dozen Black Belts Using Techniques as Tools for Understanding Concepts Chapter 2 - Strategy, Tactics, and Technique Sometimes You Need to Blast, Sometimes You Need to Slam Your Physical Responses Must Be Programmed into Your Muscular Memory The "Big Four" Elements of Strategy in Personal Combat A Primitive but Effective Application of Breaking the Enemy's Balance The "Come See the Stars" Technique Don't Be the Prisoner of Your Own Macho Madness Thinking Drive-By Shooters Chapter 3 - USD60,000 to the Man Left Standing The Gracie Brothers Is the Grace System the Ultimate Self-Defense Art? The Importance of the Training Method Why Does the Karate Fighter So Often Fear the Boxer? An Effective Training Method Must Allow the Student to Discover and Exercise His Warrior Spirit On the Path to Developing a More Effective Self-Defense Training Method Chapter 4 - Scenario-Based Training The Critical Role of the Bulletman Physical Limitations of the Armor Commonly Asked Questions about the Bulletman's Ride The Role of the Fighter Avoidance Deconditioning the Denial Response Striking Preemptively Attacking with Full-Contact Striking The Fight Scenarios Engage Involuntary Biochemical Responses Freezing Up Controlling and Timing the Flow of Adrenaline Developing Muscular Memory Learning that Occurs under Adrenal Stress is Stored in the Brain Differently and Occurs at an Accelerated Rate Adrenal Stress-Based Learning Stays with the Individual Forever Why Traditional Martial Arts Training Is Incomplete Preparation for an Actual Self-Defense Encounter Chapter 5 - Toward a More Realistic View of Asian Martial Systems Classical Martial Arts as "ancient and Proven Combat Systems" The Uncommon Quality of Common Sense Are There Really "True Masters?" What Makes a Master? Very Few Real Fights Are Decided by Subtle or Master Technique What the Scenario Training Method Achieves Scenario Training Works for Both Black Belts and Untrained Fighters Chapter 6 - Scenario-Based Training with Weapons A Pistol You Don't Have with You Won't Help One Learns to Fight Empty-Handed Because Most Times, "That's All You Got" Scenario Training Should Be Mandatory for Police There Is Just as Much Misinformation in Firearms Training as There is in the Martial Arts World An Exception: Jeff Cooper's Priciples of Personal Defense The Problem with Experience and Dogmatism An Experiment in Adapting Scenario-Based Training to the Combat Use of the Pistol Some Observations about Our Scenario-Based Pistol Training The Primary Goal of Scenario Training with Weapons: Developing The Proper Mind-Set Extraordinary Martial Skill with the Weapon Is Not Demanded to Survive Most Real-World Attacks Scenario Training Using the Stick The Dog Brothers A Final Note: The Most Dangerous Assailants Don't Display Their Weapons before Using Them Some Final Thoughts Proper Response to Adrenal Stress Can Be Learned All Cruelty Comes from Weakness

About the Author :
Peyton Quinn is the dean of barroom brawling. He began his training in formal martial arts systems in 1964, eventually achieving rank in karate, judo and aikido. While he continues to respect and explore Asian martial arts systems, his real-world experience has shown him that for most people, training in martial arts alone is not enough for real fighting.