Whether you are a law enforcement officer wanting to improve your edge or a martial artist wanting to expand your knowledge edge of street proven techniques, you will find this book is filled with invaluable information including: Joint manipulation that works; Leverage control versus pain control; Hitting 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 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. Written by a retired cop and high-ranking martial artist who survived all that the mean streets threw at him while working patrol, gang enforcement and dignitary protection. This book goes beyond a what is taught in the academy, officer's in-service training, and what is allowed by the administration. BONUS: 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 wrestling champ.
Loren Christensen was still a rookie on pro-bation when his police agency recruited him to teach defensive tactics to new officers hired just a few months after him. Since then he has trained countless police academies, in-service officers, transient sys-tem authorities, security agents, hotel security personnel, mental health nurses and criminal justice students. Loren began his martial arts journey in 1965 and over the decades of continuous study has earned 10 black belts in three fighting arts: 7th-degree black belt karate, 2nd-degree black bell jujitsu. and 1st-degree black belt arnis. He borrows from these disciplines as swell as other fighting arts to show you how to make your restraint. control and self-defence tactics more effective, more painful, safer for you and safer for the suspect.