Impact Weapon Combatives 2nd Edition

Impact Weapon Combatives 2nd edition is a groundbreaking, incredibly detailed and inclusive go-to book on Impact Weapons. This volume adds approximately 80 additional pages to the first edition and has been updated to more effectively address training needed for our times. This is the training course about you holding a stick in your hand and blocking, striking and grappling against empty hand attacks, against other impact weapons, against edged weapons and against some gun threats. Hock's involvement with the stick/baton spans five decades dating back to the early 1970s when he first entered the U.S. Army Military Police Academy. His book covers history, theories and science about the impact weapon, stress quick draws, using the closed expandable baton as a weapon, all single-hand and double-handed strikes, all single and double-handed blocks, both old-school and new military and police baton defensive tactics, skill drills, stick ground-fighting. This book also includes a very special section on impact weapon retention covering everything from the carry site to use. Plus, it has more than 40 stick takedowns starting from the head on down to the ankle. This is the complete quide to the use of the "stick" as a tactical tool. It does not detail stick-versus-stick as a Filipino martial arts weapons or course of study. This is completely practical, tactical training and reference manual. The material focuses on tactics not on the martial artsy segment of this material. If you are interested in the art only, this is not the book for you. But if you are interested in tactics, strategies, history and application of impact weapons, this book was written for you.

About the Author :
W. Hock Hochheim served in the military police in Korea and state side in the evacuation of Vietnam. Afterward he worked as a police officer then a detective for more than 22 years in a large, action-packed town in Texas. In the 90's he started a self-defense organization The Scientific Fighting Congress with the mission of teaching self-defense tactics and strategies to those in high-risk professions. Currently he teaches self-defense to military, police and high-risk professionals in more than 11 allied countries. He continues to teach, write about geo-political issues that impact personal safety and security, and write men's action adventure based on his real-world experience. Margaret Eden is an editor and author. She's written both fiction and nonfiction books, and articles for Woman's World and Aspire magazines. She's served as editor-in-chief for the University of North Texas academic publications, InHouse, and The North Texan. She's also served as the editorial services manager for the Society of Petroleum Engineers producing six peer-reviewed, scholarly journals, and more than 25 peer-reviewed textbooks. Jane serves as vice president of Lauric Enterprises, Inc. for more than 25 years. Lauric produces books, dvds, and seminars on self-defense and provides training to military, police, and citizens in high-risk professions in nine allied countries. She also writes and edits for SLB (formerly Schlumberger).