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"The first volume in the 100 Deadly Skills series delivered clandestine hacks to help you escape and evade threats at home and abroad. The second book, Survival Edition, provided a blueprint for surviving fatal disasters. Now, with the Combat Edition, I've created the most comprehensive on-the-ground combat manual ever assembled—helping good people defeat evil, fight for their lives, and survive another day."—Clint Emerson
Created by a retired Navy SEAL, this illustrated manual presents one hundred skills from some of the deadliest characters on Earth. Special ops. Outlaw bikers. Martial artists. Professional fighters. Drawn from an elite cadre of experts, each technique is broken down step by step to radically improve your chances of coming out on top—whether you're facing an active shooter or going toe to toe with a belligerent prick. Embedded videos let you visualize the skills and practice them in real time.
These one hundred deadly skills include:
· Weaponizing your non-violent posture
· Delivering damaging body strikes
· Accurately throwing a knife
· Quick drawing and shooting a handgun
· Tactically deceiving your enemy
· Surviving a multi-threat ambush
· Understanding non-lethal and lethal options
Clint Emerson, retired Navy SEAL, spent twenty years conducting special ops all over the world while attached to SEAL Team Three, the National Security Agency (NSA), and a Special Mission Unit.
Tom Mandrake has created and illustrated books, comics and graphic novels for over 40 years. Some of the titles he has worked on include Batman, The Spectre, The Martian Manhunter, The Punisher, The New Mutants, The X-Files, Creeps, To Hell You Ride and Kros: Hallowed Ground.
H. Keith Melton, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and author of many spy books, is an intelligence historian and a specialist in clandestine technology, espionage, and tradecraft.
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100 Deadly Skills - Clint Emerson
100 Deadly Skills
A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Crushing Your Enemy, Fighting for Your Life, and Embracing Your Inner Badass
Clint Emerson
Navy SEAL, Ret.
copyright © 2021 clint emerson llc and confidential communications consultants inc.
All rights reserved.
100 deadly skills: combat edition
A Navy SEAL’s Guide to Crushing Your Enemy, Fighting for Your Life, and Embracing Your Inner Badass
isbn
978-1-5445-1886-2 Paperback
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978-1-5445-1885-5 Ebook
Contents
A Note to Readers
Introduction
Tony Blauer
001 SPEAR
002 Determine Your Nonviolent Posture
003 How to Index Palm a Face
004 How to Throw a Rear Palm Strike
005 Understand the Proper SPEAR Stance
006 How to Perform a Tactical SPEAR
Tony Jeffries
007 How to Throw a Jab
008 How to Throw a Cross
009 Understand Body Strikes
010 How to Throw a Hook
011 How to Shadowbox
012 Perform a One-Two Combination
013 How to Generate Power
014 Increase Footwork, Speed, and Agility
015 Strengthen Your Punch Power
Marcus Torgerson
016 Understand Situational Awareness
017 How to Palm-Heel-Strike Your Adversary
018 How to Throw an Elbow Strike
019 How to Side Kick Your Opponent’s Knee
020 How to Front Kick a Pair of Balls
021 Escape a Rear Bear Hug
022 Stop a Knife Attack
023 Snatch a Bad Guy’s Gun
024 Knife to Throat Escape
Stephen K. Hayes
025 How to Counter a Boxers One-Two Combination
026 How to Counter a Drunken Flurry of Fists
027 How to Escape an Abdominal Blade Attack
028 How to Counter a Knife-to-Throat Threat
029 How to Counter a Gun-to-Head Threat
030 How to Throw a Throwing Star
Zoltan Bathory
031 How to De-escalate a Potential Fight
032 How to Block Strikes
033 How to Counter Your Adversary’s Grip
034 Use Your Hooks to Trip Your Opponent
035 Learn Judo Throws to Stop the Fight
036 Turn Your Blocks into Strikes
Joe Robaina
037 Use a Cane’s Horn as Brass Knuckles
038 Take Out Multiple Threats with a Windshield Wiper
039 Smash a Nut and Crack a Skull
040 Attack the Wrist and Take the Gun
041 Use a Figure Eight to Intimidate
Brian Halliday
042 Outlaw Awareness and Bar Fighting Tactics
043 Creative Everyday Carry Weapons
044 Identify Improvised and Environmental Weapons
Jason Johnson
045 Understand Different Knife Throwing Draw Strokes
046 How to Grip like a Knife Thrower
047 Distance Determines Grip
048 Proper Knife Throwing Technique
Rich Graham
049 Rich’s Everyday Carry
050 Understand Basic Knife Grips
051 How to Stab
052 How to Use the Breaker
053 How to Cut
054 How to Hack
Trevor Roe
055 Trevor’s Everyday Carry
056 How to Draw a Concealed Handgun
057 Proper Stance, Balance, and Grip
058 Trigger Control and Sight Alignment
059 Tap, Rack, Bang
060 Target Engagement
Pat McNamara
061 Pat’s Everyday Carry
062 Tactical Deception
063 One-Two Combo with a Lateral Move
064 Hook to the Body
065 SPEAR to Sternum Strike
066 Teep to the Chest
067 Achieve Separation and Draw Stroke
John Lovell
068 The GTF Combo
069 Double-Leg Takedown
070 Taking Your Adversary’s Back
071 One-Arm Rear Naked Choke
072 Feign Compliance to Survive the Threat
073 Survive an Ambush
Dom Raso
074 Dom’s Everyday Carry
075 Chin Jab Flow
076 Blade Draw and Flank
077 Shield to Pistol Draw
Greg Thompson
078 Greg’s Everyday Carry
079 Rhino Block
080 Rhino Block to Guillotine and Garment Choke
081 Rhino Block to Garment Choke
082 Counter Multiple Outside Attackers
083 Use a Lanyard Choke
084 Dagger Draw and Concealment
Bill Rapier
085 Understand the Reactionary Gap
086 Perform Cross Elbow Strikes
087 How to Uppercut and Shield with Elbows
088 How to Headbutt
089 How to Draw Your Blade
090 Blade to Pistol Transition
091 Weapon Retention
092 Elbow Strike to Handgun Draw Combo
093 Use Circle of Awareness to Keep Rifle Ready
094 Proper Rifle Grip and Control
095 Proper Rifle Fighting Stance
096 How to Muzzle Strike with Your Rifle
097 How to Shoot an Assault Rifle
Monty LeClair
098 How to Sight-In a Rifle Scope
099 How to Stalk and Kill
100 How to Build an Urban Hide
Note from the Author
About the Authors
About the Illustrator
a note to readers
Welcome to the third installment in the 100 Deadly Skills series, a special combat edition featuring embedded video content. The skills featured in its pages were provided by special operations personnel, professional fighters, outlaw motorcycle club members, and world-class martial artists—a cadre of experts who have tested the limits of their endurance, precision, and ingenuity under life-threatening conditions. Lending their deadliest protocol to the cause of enhancing public safety, they’ve shared secrets of the trade meant to assist anyone faced with a dangerous situation.
The resulting manual is intended to expose civilians to a variety of fighting systems, martial arts, weapons, and firearms used in combat, on the streets, and in the ring. Adapted for civilian use, the skills in this book are meant to help you overcome a range of deadly situations, from getting ambushed by armed robbers to being caught in the crosshairs of an active shooter or stabbed by a psychopath. The book’s purpose is to save lives—yours and those of the people around you.
Still, as the title of the book implies, some of the skills are extremely dangerous, and many should only be attempted in the direst of situations. All require the application of personal judgment, their necessity in any given situation highly dependent on context. The authors, subject-matter expert contributors, illustrator, and publisher disclaim any liability from any injury that may result from the use, proper or improper, of the information contained in this book. The stated goal of the book is not to enable deadly actions but to entertain while simultaneously introducing a body of knowledge that may come in handy in the absolute direst of emergencies.
Be deadly in spirit but not in action (unless the actions against you are deadly). Respect the rights of others and the laws of the land. May the strongest survive.
Introduction
That smartphone in your pocket isn’t going to save you from an unexpected left hook or a weapon you didn’t see coming. In volatile times, self-reliance and education are key.
While the first two volumes in the 100 Deadly Skills series prepared readers for a range of situational threats, the combat edition focuses on close-range encounters requiring hand-to-hand engagement or the use of defensive weaponry. To prepare you for a variety of unique dangers, the hundred deadly skills you’re about to encounter have been adapted from a variety of sources—the world of special operations and long-range snipers, along with a shadow realm of badass fighters populated by ninjutsu practitioners and outlaw bikers. The arsenal of weaponry is equally diverse, covering everything from a handgun to the improvised use of a hammer, wrench, or cane. You’ll even learn how to use environmental features, such as doorframes and curbs, to your advantage and your opponent’s detriment.
Borrowing communications protocol from the author’s military background, each skill is broken down into its most critical parts using what’s known as a warning order,
or WARNO. The components include:
Situation: A concise statement of the scenario and your goal—this is the Who, What, Where, When, and Why.
Mission: An overhead view of the skill you’re about to learn.
Execution: A breakdown of the steps you’ll need to take to execute the skill.
Service and Support: Everything you need to know about gear and training.
Command and Control: The remaining steps for gaining control over the situation. (In a military context, this part of the WARNO provides essential chain-of-command information.)
Many of the skills are also accompanied by embedded video content accessible via QR code. See box below for instructions.
Enough talking. Let’s get ready to practice some deadly combat strategies and techniques—practice
being the key word. Lather, rinse, and repeat. In a survival situation, fast-twitch muscle memory is your friend. Practice the skills in this book until they become second nature. Who knows? One day you just might run into me.
001. SPEAR
Spontaneous Protection (Startle Flinch) Enabling Accelerated Response (Loading Toward Danger)
Situation: Fight or flight is the body’s survival response to a perceived threat or danger. During this reaction, hormones like adrenaline and cortisol are released, increasing heart rate, slowing digestion, shunting blood flow to major muscle groups, and changing various nervous system functions, giving the body a burst of energy and strength. A split second before hormones are released, the startle flinch engages to protect the brain and body. We all physically react somewhat the same when startled. Our hands fire up to protect our head, we widen our stance, we bend at the knees bracing for impact, sounds get louder, and our vision gets narrower. Embracing these physical response characteristics and directing them toward danger sets us up to survive, regardless of stimuli.
Mission: Use your startle flinch as a bridge to engage danger.
Execution: Upon confrontation, and especially when caught off guard, your nonviolent posture should adapt slightly to the threat. Move your strong side to the rear with a slight step to adopt a more solid sport stance. Your fingers are slightly curled and splayed wide open, and your elbows are outside of ninety degrees to act as both a spear and a shield. Your weight is distributed evenly on both legs and you anchor to the ground through the balls of your feet. There are three types of flinches: primal covering of your head, pushing away danger, and oblique, as you turn to the side with your chin tucked in and cover your head. Then, as you are now in an ideal position to engage, keep the fingers splayed, thumbs and index fingers touching to form a SPEAR, and drive your hands toward the danger while changing the elevation and the angle of your counterattack.
Service and Support: To simulate your survival response when training, practice getting your hands up and into position, followed by shifting to a strong sport stance, facing toward your opponent.
Command and Control: Maintain space or create it. Keeping your arms outside ninety degrees will allow you to maintain the space between yourself and your adversary. However, if your elbows are less than ninety degrees, it will be easier for your adversary to pull you in and reduce the space, and will potentially give him an unwanted advantage.
002. Determine Your Nonviolent Posture
Situation: Without saying a word,