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Defensive Tactics
Street-Proven Arrest and Control Techniques
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Christensen draws from his extensive experience as a retired police officer and martial artist, presenting methods beyond typical academy training. A special chapter by LAPD officer Mark Mireles adds expert insights on controlling suspects on the ground, blending MMA and wrestling techniques with police training.
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This book is ideal for law enforcement professionals seeking advanced defensive skills and martial artists interested in practical self-defence strategies. It will also benefit anyone involved in security work or personal protection training who wants reliable, proven techniques for real-world confrontations.
Whether you are a law enforcement officer seeking to improve your edge or a martial artist wanting to expand your knowledge of street-proven techniques, you will find Defensive Tactics: Street-Proven Arrest and Control Techniques is filled with invaluable information to prepare you for even the most difficult scenarios.
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Whether you are a law enforcement officer seeking to improve your edge or a martial artist wanting to expand your knowledge of street-proven techniques, you will find Defensive Tactics: Street-Proven Arrest and Control Techniques is filled with invaluable information to prepare you for even the most difficult scenarios.
Highlights include:
- Joint manipulation that works
- Leverage control vs. pain control
- Striking with the hands, feet, forearms, and elbows
- Safely and quickly crossing the gap
- Blocking an assailant's strikes
- Using vulnerable points to gain compliance
- Head disorientation
- Safe application of carotid constriction or "sleeper" holds
- Controlling a suspect on the ground
- Arresting big guys
- Fighting concepts to take on patrol
- Weapon retention in close quarters and on the ground
Loren W. Christensen is a retired cop and high-ranking martial artist who survived everything the mean streets threw at him, working patrol, gang enforcement, and dignitary protection. Defensive Tactics goes beyond what is taught in the academy, during an officer's in-service training, and what is allowed by the administration.
This book also includes a chapter on proven ways to control a suspect on the ground, written by LAPD officer Mark Mireles, an MMA coach, police academy trainer, and champion wrestler.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781594394867
Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 October 2016
Country: United States
Imprint: YMAA Publication Center
Edition: 2nd New edition
Illustration: black & white halftones
Contributors:
- Supplement by Mark Mireles
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 177.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 781g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Loren W. Christensen began his law enforcement career in 1967 as a Military Policeman (Army). He joined the Portland (Oregon) Police Bureau in 1972, retiring in 1997. During his years on PPB, he worked street patrol, child abuse, dignitary protection, Intelligence, street gangs, and in the training unit. Christensen began training in the martial arts in 1965. Over the years he has earned a total of 11 black belts, eight in karate, two in jujitsu and one in arnis. As a professional writer since 1978, he has written 45 books, dozens of magazine articles, and edited a police newspaper for eight years. He has written about martial arts, missing children, street gangs, school shootings, workplace violence, police-involved shootings, nutrition, exercise, prostitution, and various street subcultures. Loren was inducted into the martial arts Masters Hall of Fame in 2011. Loren W. Christensen resides near Portland Oregon.
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