"Combat Hapkido - - Blog" BOOK REVIEW

Books Name:
Put 'em down, Take 'em out!
Knife fighting techniques from Folsom prison.
Books Author:
Don Pentecost
Number of Pages: 54

A Knife Attack is one of those things in life that you never want to be on the receiving end of. The Probability is highly likely that no matter how prepared, or how much training you may have, you're going to get cut and injured, but how badly you're injured, or whether you successfully survive the attack depends on many factors. The author of this book has composed an intriguing collection of views backed by his claimed actual knife encounters while incarcerated for years in the jail system, where stabbing and cutting is part of daily life. The author's approach to successfully surviving an attack is from his actual experience as opposed to technical training. It is with this actual experience that the author hopes to give the reader a realistic approach to surviving a knife attack.

While reviewing this book, the author’s overall scorn for the Martial Arts and its ability to prepare an individual to defend against a knife fight is highly visible, but where I think the author falls short is in his generalizing all Martial Arts into a single group without taking into considerations possibly differences between Traditional Martial Arts, vs. maybe Modern or Combative styles of Self-Defense.
Regardless, the book has some valuable information. It breaks down what actually happens during a knife attack, and offers some sound, basic advise on what to do, and what not to do when defending yourself.

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Knife fighting techniques from Folsom prison