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# Taking It to the Street : Making Your Martial Art Street Effective Paperback – November 1, 1999

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## Customer Reviews

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    Honest talk about martial arts and street effectiveness.
  

*by B***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 7, 2001*

Marc MacYoung provides martial artists with some guidelines on how to make their martial arts more effective for self-defense. He actually presents techniques and more importantly, some principles, which have helped me understand some throwing and defensive techniques in the martial arts I study. I think the book is good overall, but I wish he would have made more recommendations about drills and exercises which he alludes to in the book. His chapters on specific techniques I think are better learned from a video or qualified instructor, but he does an okay job of illustrating the principle behind the technique, so martial artists who have similar techniques in their martial arts can adapt them more easily. Because of this, I think this book is best for those who have a little martial arts experience. The most important thing that martial artists can get from this book is the spirit and principles behind making martial arts street effective, and acknowledging the fact that many of the martial arts schools today do not teach self-defense effective methods.

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    Read this book
  

*by E***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2001*

As a 10-year law enforcement officer and 8-year martial artist, I can attest to the fact that fighting in the dojo and fighting in the street are totally different. There really is no comparison.Mr. MacYoung devotes a lot of material to convince the reader of this immutable truth and then, once he has the reader's attention, gets to the good stuff. And believe me, its really good stuff.This book should be in any martial artist's library that considers his/her martial art as a self-defense tool. In other words, if you plan on or believe you will ever use your martial art for self-defense on the street rather than as a sport or spiritual tool, then this book is a must read.Mr. MacYoung, Mr. Geoff Thompson and Mr. Peyton Quinn are in the forefront of truly effective street self-defense today. They cover all the bases - awareness and avoidance (the PRIMARY self-defense tools), combat and finally, legal issues, which most authors gloss over if they cover at all. I cannot tell you how refreshing this is.This book is not a bunch of pretty techniques for impressing your friends but a good, basic and simple system of principles and concepts to save your life when all else fails.Now go and get it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Best book for real life fights and self-defense
  

*by E***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 28, 2015*

I am not an expert on any specific martial art.  I have trained some in multiple martial arts traditions for almost four decades off-and-on. Early on, it was Karate but later on, my favorites were Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Krav Maga. This book gets right to the nitty gritty of what would be most effective in a real fight on the street vs the traditions of a particular dojo style system geared toward getting belts and being in tournaments.

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