Real World Violence, not Dojo Dancing David Chesher --Former SWAT team member and U.S. Marine

"This book is what I have been looking for. As a former Marine, SWAT team member, and a reservist I have trained, studied, and researched martial arts and fighting for over twenty-five years and have always felt that something was missing. I have studied Tae kwon do, boxing, Ninjutsu, Muay Thai, and Jujutsu, and while I learned something from each art, the number of techniques I found to actually work in a real fight was very few, even though I became very proficient at utilizing them in the dojo. The dynamic violence of an actual physical altercation can vary so widely that you cannot train or prepare through the use of repetitive action-reaction training. The missing link was filled by the drills and training in Attack Proof.

Attack Proof emphasizes close quarters combat techniques that enabled the Allied soldiers in World War II to beat the superiorly martial arts-trained Japanese in hand-to-hand fighting on islands all over the Pacific. It includes fright reaction training that is essential for anyone that wants to survive a sudden violent encounter, which is something most arts don't teach, and the ones that do don't emphasize it enough (because there are too many other techniques and forms to learn in that art) but it's a cornerstone to Attack Proof training. You won't find lots of cool techniques to impress your friends in here, but what you will learn will put your self-defense training way ahead of anything you will learn in a traditional martial arts dojo. There are many drills designed to build your balance, looseness, sensitivity and body unity to allow you to fight from any angle, position and the beauty of it is that if you do have a martial arts background you'll find that many of the things you will learn in this book will greatly enhance what you know already.

Don't be misled by those who criticize the book for lack of ground fighting; the book DOES include ground fighting but not as a useless grappling or wrestling methodology that is only suitable for competition between people of similar weight classes with rules against attacking the eyes, throat or other vulnerable areas. These sports always have one assumption that negates their use on the street; that you have only one opponent to worry about. Go ahead and wrestle me to the ground and get your arm bar on me while my two buddies stomp your head into mush.

Arts such as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu flourished under the "no holds barred" promotions because the reality was that there were rules against eye gouges and groin ripping; things that are perfectly legal under street fighting. And the idea that a 110-pound woman is going to successfully take a 200-pound attacker to the ground or get into a guard position and fight him off is ludicrous. The ground fighting in Attack Proof is a devastating and deadly form of fighting that can't work in the ring without maiming and killing people, but it's based on movement and not techniques. To see it demonstrated in real life shows you the folly of wrestling, but the idea that Attack Proof drills emphasize during a violent encounter is to explode aggressively and then if possible escape; not to subdue your attacker.

Attack Proof sticks to what works and keeps the techniques to a minimum while emphasizing drills that teach you to use those techniques in an "anything goes" manner that is truly devastating."

From The Guardian Angels Regional Director, Capetown, South Africa-- "The Most Violent City In The World"

"Dear Mr Perkins, I am the Regional Director: South
Africa for the International Alliance of Guardian Angels. We are a
volunteer corps that uses martial arts skills to protect our
neighbourhoods.

In Cape Town, the most violent city in the world, I have
found most martial arts to be ineffective. Sure, it teaches discipline,
techniques, strength, speed, reflexes etc. but it is not often put into a
street context, and that was a big problem for me, as I convinced people
to leave the (relative) safety of their homes to come and patrol with me.
Therefore their safety was a huge concern.

About a year ago I purchased Attackproof [the book] and immediately
set out to adapt the system for our purposes.
Training started a few weeks later (I have only limited martial arts
experience, so I followed the book religiously) and I insisted on members
working on the drills. Every session was broken down into 3 parts, with
principles (we call them attributes) taking up one third, gang attack
drills (we call them Survival Fighting) the second third, and lastly that
training that is unique to Guardian Angels (such as patrol training etc)
taking up the last third.

All the members quickly felt more confident and
gradually I started seeing an increase in gracefull movement, with members
suddenly starting to even continue training during breaks etc. One of the
members, Nemesis (we all use code names), had never had ANY self-defence
training before. He is an incredible man of 40 who had a triple by-pass
operation in January 2007. Get this, FIVE DAYS after the op he was back on
patrol!!!

During this patrol we assisted the local police in a robbery
(involving fire-arm) arrest. A few weeks ago Nemesis went to a local pub
after work and while in there he was accosted by 5 guys who had been on
our case for months. They surrounded him and started hassling him, and in
the midst of all this the one man made the mistake of asking him "Do you
want to be shot, huh?" BAM, went Nemesis, immediately working through the
relevant drill. When number one went down the other four virtually went
into shock. This was the last thing they expected. They were five, he was
alone, and what looked like easy pickings suddenly turned out to be much
more than they expected. When this enraged Angel growled, "Well, is that
the best you can do?" They picked up their buddy and went home.

If it was not for Attackproof he may (would)
have been seriously injured, and in Cape Town
you cannot afford to be unprepared.

We have over 1400 murders in
this city every year, the vast majority of them with knives so our streets
are no walk in the park, unless you are out hunting (lol)!

I also just want to emphasize how excellent Attackproof is. We have never had the
benefit of seeing the DVD's, not having the required funds to purchase
them, so ALL of the training comes out of the book, which has become the
foundation on which virtually all of our self-defence training is built.

Attackproof is an excellent book and as a former police officer in Cape
Town, I know what violence looks like. We have more murders, rapes and
domestic violence than anywhere else on earth, and all the other
self-defence books were second-class. I now compare every single book to
Attackproof and have yet to see one that comes even close.

Mr Perkins, your work is a masterpiece and it is helping us to tame the streets of
this city. Directly due to your work we are able to ensure safety for
whole segments of this city and are already working on ensuring safety for
visitors in 2010 during the Football World Cup. Congratulations!"

--Charl (Morpheus) Viljoen
International Alliance of Guardian Angels
Regional Director: South Africa
www.guardianangels.org
www.freewebs.com/guardianangelssa

From a NY Police Defensive Tactics Instructor:

PRAISE from an Army Ranger:

The Kill the Enemy video is the greatest work of modern combat of our time! In the dirty bloody world of real combat there is no second place winners. In combat there is only Kill and come home. John trains you for just such an encounter. There is nothing in the world that can ever prepare you for the harsh cold reality of combat, but John Perkins has found a way to bridge the gap between school and real world no-holds-barred REALITY!

--Captain Jonathan Edwards, 101st Airborne /Air Assault

PRAISE from a Police Officer

"If I could start my study of the martial arts again, I
 would train in nothing other than Ki Chuan Do."

 So far in my law enforcement career, I have been
 involved in about 15 fight/fight breakup situations,
 many involving more than three combatants. I learned
 very quickly exactly what worked, and what did not, in
 a non-practice, noncompetition setting of the "chaotic
 brawl." My worst resulting injury was a slight
 laceration above my right elbow, due to broken glass
 and slick conditions. However, beyond this, I have
 barely been as much as glazed by any strike carrying
 enough power or leverage to do any damage. In each
 case in which I needed to detain suspects so far, I
 subdued each with relative ease, rarely needing
 assistance in handcuffing or transporting the party in
 question.

 To this point, the MA skills that I have used
 have been limited by conditions, area in which to
 execute, congestion of people and other circumstances.
 Often the action was so close that my only viable
 actions, to protect myself, consisted, singularly, of
 techniques and skills that I have learned through you,
 in one way or another (class, book, videos, etc.).
 These techniques, along with their counterpart
 philosophy and training methods, have been reliable,
 efficient and efficacious, exclusively superior to
 what is taught by any other martial art's discipline
 that I know of. In times of true danger, Ki Chuan Do
 has been a welcomed reassurance. In times of
 uncertainty and threat, I always knew that I had a
 great weapon at my disposal. All this, and more, I
 had gained in the relatively short period of time
 since I began practicing, learning the philosophy, and
 studying the most basic techniques of Ki Chuan Do. In
 comparison, the many years spent learning various
 other martial arts (mostly grappling-oriented) have
 proven pathetically unfruitful. These techniques
 could only be useful only under the most favorable
 ground conditions, and have served little or no use to
 me as of yet.

 I have been a student of Master Perkins for,
 what would be considered by virtually all other
 martial art school's "learning curve," to be a short
 period of time, indeed. However, through private and
 group lessons that I have taken so far, through
 watching video's put out by attackproof.com, and by
 reading "Attackproof," the book, I have learned "real"
 survival skills. These skills have been taught to me,
 learned, and has been trained into my memory at an
 exponentially higher practical yield-per-hour training
 rate than any other martial art classes or seminars
 I've ever attended, or ever even heard rumor of.
 Learning from Master Perkins and following his
 guidance, through his superjacent teaching methods,
 revealed to me the flaws inherent in my former
 fighting idealism. This new awakening had all but
 invalidated all prior training I had undergone. If I
 could start my study of the martial arts again, I
 would train in nothing other than Ki Chuan Do.

 In addition, similar "law enforcement"- specific
 techniques are taught by Master Perkins, specifically
 aimed at keeping officers alive while on-duty. These
 techniques have meant a lot to me and could very well
 save my life someday. Also involved in these lessons
 are superior techniques focusing on the proper, and
 most efficient, usage of the weapons police officers
 typically carry. I have used many of these techniques
 already, to the exclusion of all other techniques
 taught to me at the Academy I attended. I would
 highly recommend this class to any and all law
 enforcement workers, during any point in their career.

 I am very lucky to have spotted the
 "Attackproof" book at the local book store, and am
 even more lucky to have put my faith into Master
 Perkins, and his revolutionary system of "real"
 fighting, Ki Chuan Do.

 --Matthew Shoener- Police Officer, Scranton PA

PRAISE from a Corrections Officer: