Practical Karate Book 3-Defense Against Multiple Assailants

Practical Karate Book 3

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Reviewer: Mark Groenewold

Date: March, 2002

This text, the third of a six volume set, is one that has some hits and some misses with this reviewer. There are things in this book which, like the first two are excellent, and then there are some things that seem a little strange and out of place. At times I wonder if Master Nakayama has ever really seen much of a real multiple attacker situation when I see some of the responses that he suggests to some of the arranged attacks he has laid out in this book.

Let's start with the good stuff first. Pages 29-40 have some seemingly very practical responses to attacks where one assailant has a grip on you from behind and another attacker is threatening you from the front. Elbow attacks are used throughout, and the body shifting of moving into your attacker to unbalance them is also excellent. I also really like all the material of the attacks that may happen while you are seated in a chair (and not in seiza!). I think that the responses and combinations are quite plausible and look natural as well (83-102).

But now the bad stuff. Pages 15- 28 have sequences where two assailants have gripped your arms. Such cases may happen when a couple of bouncers are throwing you out of a bar. In such a case, you should just leave the bar without starting a brawl. But if your health and well-being is being truly threatened, here are some techniques to deal with bouncers. Frankly, I think that the techniques used as responses are a little advanced, and if you are able to do such advanced technique, you probably would never have let yourself be grabbed and restrained in such a way to begin with. If someone grabs you by the hand, you should already be instinctually stepping into your attacker and using your elbow as leverage against his wrist to free your arm. For two guys to suddenly grab you simultaneously in such a way, and for an experienced karate-ka to let it happen in the first place, you would either have to be quite inebriated, or your assailants are working in perfect synchronicity. It just seems a little odd, and other situations would be much more interesting and practical rather than this one.

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