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John Perkins (Author), Al Ridenhour (Author), Matt Kovsky (Author)
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May 13, 2009

Real violence is not like anything you see in the movies or the ring. Ask any street cop or soldier: Real violence is total chaos and cannot be defended against with either patterned technique training or sport fighting.

Attack Proof presents a proven personal protection system, called guided chaos, for anticipating and fending off even the most brutal assaults. It's based on the real-world experiences and forensic homicide research of a former New York cop and instructor for members of the FBI, U.S. Marines and air marshals, and security personnel for dignitaries.

Attack Proof trains you to become a martial realist by preparing you for the unexpected. Rather than robotic techniques or rules-based sport fighting, Attack Proof teaches you how to adapt, improvise, and survive, creating your defense spontaneously as you need it. With protection strategies for larger assailants, car and airline hijackings, workplace violence, multiple attackers, fighting on the ground and in stairwells, and attacks and defenses using guns, knives, sticks, and canes, Attack Proof is the next best thing to having your own personal bodyguard.

Featuring the same tactics used by select police, military, and security professionals to defend themselves, Attack Proof is the trusted guide to personal protection when real violence occurs.


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"The difference between boxing and street fights is that many street fights can mean life or death. Attack Proof teaches the most effective and easy-to-learn methods of self-defense in existence today."

Doug Gray
Former Super Welterweight Champion of NABO

"I've used the Attack Proof methods in the street, and they really work."

Jim Cirillo
Top Member of NYPD Stakeout Squad

"Attack Proof's combat methods are the most efficient and devastating that I have experienced before, during, and since the military."

Ret. Lieutenant Dick Shea
Original Navy SEAL Team Member

"Attack Proof creator John Perkins is an expert in the dynamics of violence."

Dr. Peter Pizzola, Director, NYPD Crime Lab

About the Author

John Perkins has been training and teaching martial arts and self-defense for over 50 years. He has taught hand-to-hand tactics to Marine combat units, Marine scout sniper units, and military counterdrug forces. He also has instructed law enforcement personnel from the FBI, New York City Police Department, New York State Police, and the New York City Transit Police. A former bodyguard to Malcolm Forbes and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, Perkins is a forensic crime scene expert and a master handgun instructor and marksman. He has extensive experience in the martial arts of hapkido, taekwondo, kyukushinkai, kempo karate, judo, jujitsu, goju, and tai chi chuan. He has trained in Native American fighting principles since the age of five. Perkins has battled in unlicensed pit fights, a savage forerunner to today's Ultimate Competitions. He is the founder of guided chaos, an adaptive, internal-energy art whose principles are detailed in this book. Perkins' system is recognized by the International Combat Martial Arts Federation, through which he holds a fifth-degree black belt in combat martial arts. Perkins lives in Nyack, New York.

Al Ridenhour, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserves, has been training in the martial arts since 1985. He has studied tai chi, isshinryu karate, and ken jitsu. An all-conference wrestler in high school who later learned boxing in the Marine Corps, Ridenhour is also a sixth-degree master in guided chaos. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the Gulf War, where he commanded a 50-man infantry unit and served as an instructor in unarmed combat for his Marine unit and for the battalion's scout sniper platoon. He has also worked with various law enforcement agencies, U.S. Customs, U.S. Border Patrol, and the Drug Enforcement Agency during counterdrug missions. He is a member of the International Combat Martial Arts Federation. Ridenhour lives in Hartsdale, New York.

Matt Kovsky is an editor for CBS Television. His work has earned him two Emmys, one for outstanding editing and another for producer of an outstanding entertainment series, as well as many other awards. He is trained in isshinryu karate and jeet kune do and has a fifth-degree black belt in guided chaos. Kovsky lives in Westchester, New York.


Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Paperback: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics; 2 edition (May 13, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0736078762
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736078764
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, May 29, 2009
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Throughout my martial arts experience since my early days in the Army in the mid-80's, I have kept my eyes open for the "one" book that had all of the info I needed in one compact package. I've owned tons of books (and DVDs) on arts I either studied--Shotokan, TKD, Tang Soo Do, Muy Thai, Silat--or were interested in--Jeet Kune Do, Kenpo, Tai Chi, multiple Kung Fu styles.

But I always wanted to find what I called the "Master Text." Even more than the first edition, the recently released version ended that search.
This book has everything--realistic self-defense advice, effective techniques, real-world philosophy, and, most important to me, invaluable drills that give you the ability to do the kinds of things you got into the martial arts for in the first place.

To put it bluntly, this magnificent volume makes all other martial arts/self defense books incomplete and superficial.

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An exceptional update of a classic! A "go-to" reference for practitioners and professionals!, May 27, 2009
This review is from: Attack Proof - 2nd Edition (Paperback)
John Perkins and his crew have out done themselves in this update of an already exceptional work of genius!
As a practitioner and instructor of martial arts and self defense for over 25 years as well as a two-service veteran, I have found Mr. Perkins' and his co-authors' instruction to be clear, concise and on target to those who go in harm's way and for those who never leave a training environment. I have given and donated many copies of his previous work to my students, fellow instructors in several different disciplines as well as military and law enforcement personnel over the years with consistently stellar feedback and gratitude from all over the world. If you are a seasoned practitioner that wants to examine the foundations of your art, a professional that is out on the "pointy end" or a rank beginner that wants to examine some options for when "things go horribly wrong" this is the reference to get. Thanks for actually improving a classic!
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Benchmark of the Practical Reality of Serious Self Defense, May 28, 2009
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The second edition is even better than the first Attackproof book. I have been studying Martial Arts for most of my life. My grandfather always stressed dealing with the dynamic reality in self defense and using practical methods. He would have been as excited as I am, with this exceptional book. Encyclopedic in scope, the information that is presented, has been forged through experience. If you are looking to learn self defense, self preservation, for your daily life, without the rules and regulations of sport, then this is the most comprehensive book available. This book is the new benchmark against which all other books on self defense will be measured for some time. If you truly want to embrace Guided Chaos, to develop your awareness and sharpen your self defense skills, then see if you can join a class. It will serve as a path of personal development. [...]
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