Self-Protection Guidebook for Girls and Women (Fred Neff's Self-Defense Library)

by Fred Neff

Knowing the fighting and escaping techniques presented in this book can often mean the difference between life and death. This book focuses on the growing need for self-protection by modern women,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822511568
• ISBN13: 9780822511564
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.5"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

Teaches important tactics for preventing being the victim of aggression

The book Self-Protection Guidebook for Girls and Women really delivers a lot of useful information in a concise easy to understand manner. It starts out with a positive tone that gives confidence to the reader that she can learn how to protect against physical aggression, that is appreciated. The book goes on to provide answers to common questions about women's self-defense. An important section is on how to avoid trouble. This is significant because staying away from potentially dangerous situations lowers the chances you will have to use any fighting moves. The book provides suggestions on safety precautions in your own home, in a home where you are baby sitting, when walking, when driving, in public places,and on vacation. Principles of self-protection are well explained. The book teaches basic body mechanics and fighting stances for self-protection should you need to defend against attack. In the event you are attacked the book shows fighting moves and escapes that can be flexibly adopted for dealing with a variety of different attacks. The book's well written, positive and practical approach to the serious subject of self-protection for women warrants a strong recommendation.

This book is the real deal.

The movies and television show women taking on several men with a series of kicks as though it was no more difficult than walking across the street. The reality is quite different. Author Fred Neff has written a self-protection guidebook for women, like me, who want a reality-based approach to defending ourselves. His book is well organized in a way that makes sense from a woman's perspective. First common questions and answers are given about self-protection. Then the book explains common sense ways to avoid getting into trouble so that a physical fight is not necessary. For situations where a physical approach is needed or cannot be avoided, he provides limbering-up exercises, basic body mechanics, describes the sensitive areas of a would be attackers body and teaches you how to defend yourself. The book also teaches you how to escape from the different types of attacks one can ordinarily expect. This book demonstrates an excellent balance between avoiding excessive violence while at the same time providing enough fighting approaches to allow for a physical response if necessary. The fighting techniques supplied seem practical and to me, were not hard to learn. I see this book as a very valuable resource for any woman looking for information on how to protect herself.

SELF-PROTECTION GUIDEBOOK AN EXCELLENT INVESTMENT

Late last year I bought my daughter the Self-Protection Guidebook for Girls and Women. It was purchased after my daughter related a recent incident where a girl in her school had been attacked. Having learned a type of kickboxing at a gym a few years back when we lived in another city, I thought a good book on self-defense would help me teach my daughter how to defend herself. The Self-Protection Guidebook is even better than I expected. The author Fred Neff supplies vital information in a very well thought out and organized way. Provided is a section of the book on common questions asked on self-defense and their answers. The book goes on to build the foundation for self-protection situations. There are sections on safety precautions in the home, while babysitting, away from home, when driving, in public places and on vacation. It then goes on to teach self-defense techniques and tactics for handling the most common self-defense themes. I especially like the way the book gives clear explanations along with good photographs to teach self-protection. My kickboxing training was never so relevant as this book's teachings. The Self-Protection Guidebook cuts out the non-essential and gets to just what is needed. Practicing what is taught in the book with my daughter has made both of us more self-confident, in better shape and more capable of defending ourselves. Our relationship has also deepened through our study of the book. I strongly recommend this Self-Protection book to every woman.

The Art of Self-Protection Never Goes Out of Style

While still in school in the 70's, I read a book that very much impressed me on how to protect myself. Although the exact name of the book and its author was soon forgotten, some of its teachings must have stuck because I was later able to fend off a violent attack using a defense learned in that book. The good feeling I got knowing that I could defend myself, inspired me to study karate, which I found both challenging and rewarding. For that reason, It was like finding an old friend when I recently happened upon a copy of that very same book Self-Protection Guidebook for Girls and Women by Fred Neff. As I reread the book, now so many years later, I realized just how much of a classic work it is in the field of self-defense. This book contains vital information which it explains thoroughly and with just the right emphasis. Where books that are more recent ignore how to handle actual threatening situations, this book clearly gives guidance. It starts right out telling how to avoid troubling situations if possible and then goes on to show you what to do when they cannot be avoided. This book should be on the required reading list for every young person. Yes, it was written for women, but its lessons are valuable for everyone. Sensitivity is shown throughout the text for the predicament someone is put in when she is the victim of attack. Even someone with experience like me in karate will greatly appreciate this book's teachings. I liked it so much that I have now purchased several other books by the same author. After reading all of them, I have gained new insight into the martial arts and started to supplement my training with additional fighting techniques drawn from the self-protection guidebook and the other books by Fred Neff. This book should be on every woman's reading list.