The Complete Michael D. Echanis Collection: Special Tactics for Knife and Stick Combat (The Special Forces/ Hand-to-hand Combat/ Special-tactics Series) - Softcover

Echanis, Michael D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897501977 ISBN 13: 9780897501972

Publisher: Black Belt Communications, 2010

Synopsis

This thorough collection delivers powerful, reality-based self-defense methods from one of the world's best-known weapons experts. Combining the books Knife Fighting, Knife Throwing for Combat; Basic Stick Fighting for Combat; and Knife Self-Defense for Combat in one volume for the first time, this complete edition teaches aspiring martial artists dozens of knife-attack and counterattack techniques, psychological and physical visualization methods of unconventional paramilitary warfare, the use of the stick as a weapon of survival, and more than 30 separate methods for disarming and controlling a knife attacker.

About this title

About the Author

Michael D. Echanis was a United States Army Special Forces and 75th Ranger Battalion enlisted soldier, a hand-to-hand combat instructor for the Army Special Forces and the Navy Seals, and the martial arts editor of Soldier of Fortune magazine from 1974 to 1976. Echanis studied under Joo Bang Lee, the supreme grandmaster of Hwa Rang Do, and specialized in Un Shin Bup, the Korean counterpart to ninjutsu.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Belt Communications
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897501977
• ISBN 13: 9780897501972
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 500