Ted GambordellaCritiques

What makes the bully a better fighter than you are?
He's not bigger or stronger. And you can be just as mean as he is-especially if your life is on the line.

The difference is that he knows the secrets of street fighting. In Fight for Your Life!, Dr. Ted Gambordella shows you these secrets and instructs you on how to use them with lethal effectiveness. These are no-nonsense, practical techniques designed to beat street-wise punks a their own game.

Stop taking it, and start dishing it oiut-with the help of Fight for Your Life! The Secrets of Street Fighting.

Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 Fighting techniques
2 Escapes adn counters
3 Close fighting and groiund fighting
4 Knife and club defenses
5 defenses for a woman
6 Multiple attacks
7 Tips

The book is a basic manual on weapons. The book starts off strong with very good techniques with the knife (with the exception of attacking with them.) Mainly the self-defense applications. Dr. Gambordella coverage of the yawara, tonfa ad Jo is adequate. But his coverage from there on shows poor technique. From the basics of how to hold the nunchaku, Bo or sai are wrong.

If you where to hold the sai as is shown in combat or kumite, you would break your fingers. It appears that Dr. Gambordella is self taught with these last three weapons and has no practical experience.

The book is a basic manual on weapons. The book starts off strong with very good techniques with the knife (with the exception of attacking with them.) Mainly the self-defense applications. Dr. Gambordella coverage of the yawara, tonfa ad Jo is adequate. But his coverage from there on shows poor technique. From the basics of how to hold the nunchaku, Bo or sai are wrong.