Fight Back fills a basic need-the need for you to know a few simple, effective techniques with which to defend yourself if necessary. So clear is its presentation that it is virtually fail-proof. With every self-defense technique illlustrated in sequential photographs, using Fight Back is like having an expert instructor right there with you. Fight Back is, above all, a manual of applied self-defense. It features forty actual attack situations with detailed instructions on how to handle each one effectively. Releasing yourself from a bear hug, resisting an unwelcome embrace, getting away when you're pinned down, keeping an intruder out of your apartment, even coping with punches or kicks or weapons-Fight Back gives you the power to extricate youreslf safely from any number of dangerous situations. And, because it stresses that the most effective defense is avoidance of danger in the first place, it includes sensible preventive measures you can follow to miinimize danger. For self-defense teachers, Fight Back provides special sections on organizing classrooms, lessons, and exams. For beginners to use in self-programmed study, it gives a schedule of twenty lessons in which you can master the material at home. For girls and women of all ages, Fight Back takes your self-protection beyond abstract exercise to an insurance you can count on for the rest of y our life. Emil Farkas, one of the leading authoritites on martial arts in the United States today, is well known as coach and teacher to major movie and television actors, actresses, and stuntmen, as well as a seaoned actor and stuntman hmslef. Margaret Leeds has taught self-defense to girls and women for several years in schools , universities, adult education centers, and health associations throughout California and has been instrumental in bringing self-defense classes into the regular curriculum of the state's public schools.

Contents Introduction Part One Preparing for defense 1 How to use this book 2 Mental and physical preparation 3 Natural weapons and target areas 4 Warm-up exercises Part Two Techniques of self-defense 5 The fighting stance 6 Use of arms, elbows, and hands Palm-heel strike Side-of-fist strike: Hitting down Side-of-fist strike: Hitting from side Side-of-fist strike: Hitting back Chop Elbow strike: Forward Elbow strike: Backward-down Elbow strike: Backward-up HIgh block: Upward Middle block: Inward Low block: Downward 7 Use of legs, knees, and feet Front kick Side kick Back kick Stomp Knee Part Three Applying self-defense in attack situations 8 Introduction 9 Defense against grabs and chokes Front choke Rear choke with hands Rear choke with arms Rear choke with arms: Shoulder throw for advanced students Front underarm bear hug Front overarm bear hug Rear underarm bear hug Rear overarm bear hug Rear overarm bear hug: HIp throw for advanced students Wrist grab with one hand Wrist grab with one hand: Alternate Wrist grab with two hands Both wrists grabbed Both wrists grabbed from behind Both arms grabbed from behind Arm grab Arm grab: Rear throw for advanced students Arm lock Head lock Full nelson grab Clothes grab Hair grab Mouth and waist grab Forced walk: Trip for advanced students Forced entry 10 Defense against nonviolent attacks Unwelcome hand on knee Unwelcome embrace Clothes grab 11 Defense from the ground Appraoch toward the ground Ckhoke on the floor Pinned down 12 Defense against striking and kicking attacks Shove Slap Kick Front punch 13 defense against weapons Attack with blunt weapon from above Knife: High Knife: Middle Knife: Low Knife held against you Knife slice Strangled from behind with rope Appendixes Schedule of lessons For the instructor Self-defense aids