Get Tough - W.E. Fairburn
The father of modern hand–to–hand combat, Capt. W. E. Fairbairn, taught the famed British Commandos from this classic, long–out–of–print manual on unarmed combat. Known for his “get tough” attitude, Fairbairn designed these practical methods after years of training troops and watching ruffians, thugs, bandits and bullies. Now you can profit from his experience.
This is an excellent introduction into what is commonly called CQC: Close Quarter Combat or Trench Warfare. It is often described as a method of immediate threat elimination. It is the dawn of the ‘attack before you defend’ method of self–defence. It is designed to extremely shock both the opponent and people who see it, making it highly intimidating. The image on the cover, a headlock, is the tamest move in the book. CQC is hard to call a martial art because it is more about brute force application than training the body to perform multiple continuous attacks and defence movements like Karate. This 30 move attack and response system was designed by the writer W.E. Fairbairn (along with the Fairbairn–Sykes commando knife) to instantly put martial artists/tough guys/murderers out of commission, while he policed Shanghai Harbour. This mostly meant killing criminals on the spot. This is his revised program for World War II application. You are told to learn 10 moves out of the 30 for ten minutes a day until you can perform them at lightening speed. They are all dangerous and most fatal.
About the Author
W.E. Fairbairn taught unarmed combat to the famed British Commandos and the U.S. armed forces during World War II. Before the war he served as assistant commissioner of the Shanghai Police Force. He was the inventor of the Fairbairn Commando Knife and the author of the classics Get Tough and Shooting to Live.