Violence, Blunders, And Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques And Street Etiquette

Violence, Blunders, And Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques And Street Etiquette
by Marc Animal MacYoung

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Author: Marc Animal MacYoung
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-05
ISBN: 0873646711
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: Paladin Press

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Book Review: Interesting, but only limited usefulness for self-defense
Summary: 4 Stars

The book is extremely readable, it reads more like a lengthy verbal monologue. Despite the subject hinted at in the title, it is of limited use for self defense, and almost no use for that if you don't plan to actively seek out what most Amazon users would view as dangerous and alien places.

The book actually is a rough and ready lecture on sociology, believe it or not! Animal tells us about his concept of "operating systems", the core beliefs about acceptable behavior that a subculture (such as the inhabitants of a particular area) accept as "obvious". He goes on to talk about how this applies in a broad way to rough neighborhoods in general, and then talks about it fairly specifically on some particular categories such as Magick and Religion, tattoos and body marks, women, and other categories that are likely to be of particular interest. One of these categories is "untouchables", and Animal's concept here is a good one, but he chose a category title with a totally different conventional meaning that makes it easy to get confused. Animal encourages you to question your own operating systems and be open to the idea that people with different experiences may not have the same beliefs. He gives a few, but not many, specific examples of this. Animal closes with some advice on increasing your situational awareness.

The book is fascinating and easy to read, so I gave it four stars for myself. I believe it would be of fair usefulness in preparing for someone from the law-abiding world to spend more time in a seriously lawless area, for those people I think it would rate three or four stars. For those who don't care about being entertained, and only want to learn how to survive the more common things such as muggings or bar fights in less violent areas, I'd rate the book as two stars.

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Summary of Violence, Blunders, And Fractured Jaws: Advanced Awareness Techniques And Street Etiquette

When you walk into a place, you have to be able to instantly identify the fighters, hustlers, workers, spectators and troublemakers. Find out how Animal and other professionals do this, based on their experiences as bouncers, drug dealers, bikers, prison officials and street people.

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