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on March 22, 2014
Eighty years and more has passed, but Fairbairn's "how to" book on staying alive in a gun fight is more than germane today. The nation's police have drifted towards target shooting instead of gun fighting, and the dead officers each year can attest to this failure. Fairbairn knew how to train officers to win in a gun fight, but he did not really know why his system worked...it just worked. Today we know why the brain and the body mediate the survival instincts that Fairbairn built on. Not surprisingly most police firearms trainers still teach target shooting and the "Weaver" stance to prepare an officer for a gun fight; calling on fine and complex motor skills that are just not available when facing a lethal threat. This book provides the basics to surviving a gun fight. You can;'t get much better.
on November 22, 2015
Great Classic - tactics and concepts are true today too! The weapons details have improved over the 70+ years since this was written, but the concepts and approaches to "staying alive" as developed and articulated by this pair are the basis for rational self defense against an assailant meaning to do harm.
on July 10, 2017
Not bad if a bit dated.
on May 10, 2011
If you want to know how to point shoot this book will more than get you on your way. The book is set up more as an instructor's manual for teaching students how to point shoot, but it doesn't make it hard to understand how to point shoot. This book was recommended to me and is awesome, a must have for anyone that wants to learn how to point shoot.
on July 1, 2011
In so many ways Fairbairn, Sykes, Applegate, and others were ahead of their time with their training concepts. Their methods, including the contents of this book, were based on real life violent situations and not paper punching bulls-eye shooting and the like. I highly recommend this book to anyone desiring to take a look at how "modern" combat pistol shooting truly got started. Personally, I feel that you won't go wrong with anything written by Fairbairn/Sykes or Applegate...they were the real deal.
on June 26, 2014
This book was the first written manual on stress fire in history (or point shooting, or reflex shooting, etc). It is very interesting to read about why Fairbairn and Sykes developed it, and how training it improved the skills and saved the lives of many police officers. The book also shows the schemes of the shooting house the authors built for the Shangai Police and gives a direction on exercises to be conducted with those not familiar to this technique.
on November 3, 2012
This is THE handbook for real self defense against violent threats where a handgun is the only available and last resort. With no philosophical discussions, the directions for training and the discipline of armed self defense are delivered in clear, straightforward english. Keep in mind that modern weapons have improved and expanded the choices of tool, but the techniques are quite (if not virtually) the same... when the time comes.
on March 28, 2015
Another seminal work of self-defense, authored by two men who were responsible for those facing the threat.
Dated only by technological advances in holsters, body armor and alleged advances in firearms, the information herein is timeless.
Dated only by technological advances in holsters, body armor and alleged advances in firearms, the information herein is timeless.
on August 16, 2015
Excellent book! These guys are just amazing! Sadly as our society continues its decline, the techniques they used in 1930's Shang Hai are the techniques that our law enforcement should adapt. I'm not in Law Enforcement but I carry concealed daily and I learned some excellent tactics from this book!
