100 Deadly Skills: COMBAT EDITION: A Navy SEAL's Guide to Crushing Your Enemy, Fighting for Your Life, and Embracing Your Inner Badass Paperback – January 19, 2021

As someone who has had a continuous passion for numerous martial arts, Combatives and self-defense systems (Judo, Jujitsu, Karate-Do, Boxing, MMA, Krav Maga, American Combatives, Target Focus Training, Knife, gun, and stick fighting systems) for more than 7 decades I cannot pass up any opportunity to increase my knowledge in these areas.Even though I am well into my senior years and have numerous health and medical issues; nevertheless, I am always interested in new books and material by experts in combat and survival. When I read a review of this book (100 Deadly Skills: Combat edition: A Navy SEAL’S guide to crushing your enemy, fighting for your life, and embracing your inner badass by Clint Emerson) in a gun magazine I knew I had to have it. I am familiar with several of Emerson’s books which I have loved reading. In my opinion, this fantastic volume is absolutely fantastic and the best practical Combatives recently published today.This book does not waste time with B.S. but moves quickly into the practical and realistic techniques and tactics need to win in physical street combat. This is not a sport approach manual but focuses clearly on pure realistic martial arts and street combative techniques and tactics. Each part is presented by a Combatives expert and a real bad guy illustrating the lesson being taught.You will learn the Tony Blauer’s Spear technique, Tony Jeffries power punching techniques, Marcus Torgersen’s Krav Maga methods, Stephen Hay’s Ninja system to deal with thugs, and numerous other essential skills to deal with the deranged thugs and lunatics in our world. There are 16 parts in this book and the drawings are clear (I have always loved drawing illustrations better than regular photographs) and they make the book come alive.In my opinion, if you could only keep one book in your own self-defense Combatives library THIS IS THE REFERENCE BOOK you would want to own and refer to often. This book is a keeper; however, keep in mind that in order to master these techniques requires that you practice them.Further, as I always emphasize in any martial art, self-defense or Combative manual, nothing can take the place of an instructor to teach you the finer points of any martial art or Combative system to go along with reading the book. Nevertheless, this is one of the best books I have ever read to learn the basic essential principles of numerous fighting systems to use on the street.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tactical Principles of the most effective Combative Systems).

I have bought the other 100 Deadly Skills books and love them. They are entertaining, educational, and at times hysterical. This book is all that and so much more. Not only did the author travel the county to learn from the most badass fighters on the planet... he freaking filmed all the instruction they taught him and you have direct access to it in the book. You just hover your smartphone over the QR code and BOOM - Clint is on your phone with these warrior legends teaching you how to do some of the coolest most useful self-defense skills on the planet. As soon as it arrived today I thumbed through cover to cover and found a skill called SPEAR to block a strike. I read the section then scanned the video and watched it with my daughter. Within a few mins of sparing she had it down and was blocking simulated blows - "Dad! Let's learn another one!" Now on to the Chin Jab.... Best 25 bucks I've spent in a long time.

House full of boys- great short reads!!

I love this book

Good book for entertainment and information about the subject. Nothing earth -shattering here.

Clint chose a well rounded group of experts respected in their respective fields of combat related disciplines. I truly enjoyed this book and the techniques that it imparts. The live action video interaction is truly unique and very helpful to give the reader a clear understanding of the technique being taught. As always Clint brings his own brand of humor and wit to the table and makes a very enjoyable and entertaining experience. I do look forward to the hard copy of the book, which I will be getting as soon as it comes out! I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in adding techniques to their tool box and getting a better insight to other approaches to combat. Thank you Clint, for another winning book!!

This is the third in the 100 Deadly Skills series, and like the others, it can be considered a reference book --- jam-packed with intensely useful and definitive information. The embedded videos add a whole additional and wonderful dimension to the skills outlined. Despite the entertaining comic-book illustrations, there's nothing frivolous about the content. These are skills for The Fight of your life, hence COMBAT skills. Not for the faint of heart.

I received my much anticipated Kindle edition today and could not wait to get started as I purchased the book months ago when it first came available. However, the Kindle addition asks me to take a picture of a QR code in the book to view the videos. How the heck am I supposed to do that from the phone I'm reading this on??? What am I missing? I love Clint's books but if I need two phones to get the videos or have to now buy the paperback I'll be very disappointed. Can anyone help me?Update; I went ahead and purchased the paperback edition and it's awesome! Getting to the videos is easy and the content is excellent!!!