Synopses & Reviews
Brawling doesn't get any closer or uglier than when you're struggling to tear yourself out of a street attacker's clinch. Authors Loren Christensen and Mark Mireles know this from painful experience: with a combined 75 years of martial arts study and more than 40 years of working the mean streets as city cops, they have had many opportunities to develop their techniques for both powerfully breaking a criminal's determined grasp and hanging on to a suspect desperately trying to resist arrest.
This book is not about banging around with training partners - it's about surviving a frantic street fight. It's filled with techniques for that gritty place where there are no tap-outs, referees or rules. If it's illegal in competition, it's in here. If it would get you jailed if you weren't legally defending yourself, it's in here.
Christensen and Mireles present dozens of tried-and-true clinch escapes using clear, uncomplicated instruction and step-by-step photos. Let these veterans of countless violent street fights give you the edge you need to break out of a dangerous situation.
About the Author
Loren Christensen began his law enforcement career in 1967 when he served in the army as a military policeman in the United States and in Vietnam. He joined the Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau in 1972 and retired in 1997. During those years, he specialized in street gangs, defensive tactics, dignitary protection, and patrolling the bizarre streets of skid row. He now writes full time and teaches martial arts. Mark Mireles is a certified Arrest and Control Instructor with the Los Angeles Police Department. In his civilian life, he is a black belt instructor at Jean Jacques Machado Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy and Big John McCarthy's Ultimate Training Center, and provides reality-based, self-defense training through Mireles Combative Systems. Among his many honors, Mireles is a two-time recipient of the Medal of Valor, the highest award for bravery given by the LAPD.
Table of Contents
Foreword : vi
Acknowledgments : xi
Introduction : 1
Chapter 1
Clinching Nuts and Bolts : 3
Chapter 2
The Functional Combat Stance as a Model : 9
Chapter 3
Wrestling Concepts: The Outer-Perimeter Clinch : 15
Chapter 4
Outer-Perimeter Takedowns: Two-Tier Method : 57
Chapter 5
Close-Contact Clinch : 11
Chapter 6
Clothing Attacks in the Clinch : 171
Chapter 7
Hitting with Hands, Forearms, Elbows, and Shoulders : 193
Chapter 8
Hitting with the Legs : 215
Chapter 9
Pinching, Ripping, and Pressing : 241
Chapter 10
Head-Butting in the Clinch : 253
Conclusion : 271
About the Authors : 273