Defensive Tactics: Modern Arrest and Control Techniques for Today's Police Warrior: Modern Arrest & Control Techniques for Today's Police Warrior - Softcover

Loren W. Christensen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880336995 ISBN 13: 9781880336991

Publisher: Turtle Press, 2008

Synopsis

Offers information on: joint manipulation that works; leverage control versus pain control; hitting with the hands, feet, forearms and elbows; safely crossing the gap; blocking an assailant's strikes; head disorientation; application of sleeper holds; arresting big guys; fighting concepts to take on patrol; and, weapon retention in close quarters.

About this title

About the Author

Loren Christensen was still a rookie on pro-bation when his police agency recruited him to teach defensive tactics to new officers hired just a few months after him. Since then he has trained countless police academies, in-service officers, transient sys-tem authorities, security agents, hotel security personnel, mental health nurses and criminal justice students. Loren began his martial arts journey in 1965 and over the decades of continuous study has earned 10 black belts in three fighting arts: 7th-degree black belt karate, 2nd-degree black bell jujitsu. and 1st-degree black belt arnis. He borrows from these disciplines as swell as other fighting arts to show you how to make your restraint. control and self-defence tactics more effective, more painful, safer for you and safer for the suspect.

Edition details

• Publisher: Turtle Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880336995
• ISBN 13: 9781880336991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384