Real Fighting: Adrenaline Stress Conditioning Through Scenario-Based Training Book

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 - $60,000 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