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Those of us who teach self-defense have a vital
responsibility to ensure that our students can actually use what
they learn. The challenge is that we can never know when a
student will be forced to apply their skills. It could be today,
tomorrow, next year or never. That makes it the instructor's
responsibility to make each and every student as competent as
possible as quickly as possible. In Drills Rory Miller gives
exercises and training philosophy that serve this goal. Some of
the drills are mental, because the author recognizes that
survival is not just a physical problem. Some are simple, things
you can do right now. Some, like scenarios, are on the leading
edge of current professional training. There's a lot in this
book, and no fluff. Concise, effective, and useful, I cannot
recommend it highly enough! -- Lawrence A. Kane, martial artist,
author of Surviving Armed Assaults, co-author of The Little Black
Book of Violence and Scaling Force
Rory Miller has once again provided a master piece delineating
not only his well thought out and useful drills for martial arts
and self-defense, but providing invaluable in for teaching
martial arts and self-defense skills across the broad range of
experience and need. Many of his drills provide more mental and
psychological training than physical and, as such, viable to any
practitioner from the novice to the expert. His book provides
practical exercises building off of his previous books,
Meditations on Violence and Facing Violence. -- Jeffrey Cooper,
MD, Emergency Physician, Physician, 6th Dan, Okinawan
Goju-Ryu Karate
Power is the ability to do things. So knowledge isn't power. Just
“knowing” has no ability to get things done. Knowledge has to be
effectively applied to be powerful. That's why this latest book
from Rory Miller is so very important; it teaches drills that
effectively develop the ability apply many differing skills and
attributes. Rory once again shares his hard won expertise in a
logical and accessible way.―Iain Abernethy, 6th dan, World Combat
Association Chief International Coach, author -- Iain Abernethy,
6th Dan, World Combat Association Chief International Coach,
author of Mental Strength, Throws for Strikers, and Karate's
Grappling Methods
The best way to train for a serious fight is full out; however,
if you do that, you may break your toys -- or they may break you.
If somebody doesn't get hurt, you are doing it wrong. Rory Miller
has developed a series of drills that can help. No drill is
perfect, but those in this book on how to survive serious mayhem,
are effective. Read it, and learn. -- Steve Perry, New York Times
bestselling author, Shadows of the Empire
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About the Author
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Rory Miller is a writer and teacher living peacefully in the
Pacific Northwest.
He has served for seventeen years in corrections as an officer
and sergeant working maximum security, booking and mental ;
leading a team; and teaching subjects ranging from
Defensive Tactics and Use of Force to First Aid and Crisis
Communications with the Mentally Ill. For fourteen months he was
an advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System working in Baghdad and
Kurdish Sulaymaniyah. Somewhere in the midst of that he received
a BS degree in Psychology; served in the National Guard as a
Combat Medic (91A/B); earned college varsities in judo and
fencing and received a mokuroku in jujutsu. He has drunk chichu
with reformed cannibals and 18-year-old scotch with
generals...and loves long fights on the beach.
Wim Demeere began training at the age of 14, studying the
grappling ats of judo and jujitsu for several years before
turning to the kick/punch arts of traditional kung fu and full
contact fighting. He won four national titles and a bronze medal
at the 1995 Word Wushu Championships. In 2001, he became the
national coach of the Belgian Wushu fighting team. Wim instructs
both business executives and athletes in tion, strength,
endurance, and martial arts. Wim Demeere lives in Belgium.
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