The blowgun is a mysterious tool of silent death. Michael Janich reveals the many secrets of its capabilities and uses: how to buy or make your own blowgun and darts (including "special" projectiles), shoot the weapon, devise custom targets and customize, maintain and store your gun. This is the best book on this fascinating and deadly device.

Blowguns: The Breath of Death

History

Janich, Michael D.

Military

Paladin Pr

Michael Janich has trained SF vets, police and street fighters in the techniques of knife fighting for years. Now this highly successful, comprehensive instruction is available to the average soldier, martial artist or defense-minded citizen who is interested in developing the practical skills required for today's combative streets.

Knife Fighting: A Practical Course

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

As gun control efforts mount, the knife has become the ideal self-defense weapon for many Americans. This book contains all the information you need to select and carry a knife that will conform to your style of dress, image and habits and thus serve you most effectively on the street.

Street Steel: Choosing and Carrying Self-Defensive Knives

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

If you've priced commercial martial arts equipment lately, you know you could easily spend a small fortune amassing the gear you need for effective at-home training - and still not have exactly what you need. The good news is, you can make your own for a fraction of the cost. Author Michael Janich is an old hand at turning out homemade martial arts equipment. In this book he shares the best of his simple yet ingenious designs, providing step-by-step instructions for fashioning functional, durable gear from ordinary materials at nominal cost. The plans in this book cover a wide variety of home-built martial arts equipment, from heavy bags and speed bags to focus pads and air shields to sparring weapons, stretching machines and more. Whether you're on a tight budget or just enjoy the satisfaction of do-it-yourself projects, this book shows you that a little ingenuity and sweat equity can go a long way toward greatly enhancing your home training regimen.

Homemade Martial Arts Training Equipment: A Do-It-Yourself Guide

Today’s world is more dangerous than ever before. In addition to “conventional” crimes like robbery, assault, rape, kidnapping, and murder, you must now cope with threats of home invasion, sexual predators, active shooters, and even acts of terrorism. With 911 response times averaging 10 minutes or more, you are left with one clear and inescapable truth: when it comes to keeping yourself and your loved ones safe, you are on your own.The Best Defense teaches you how to meet that daunting challenge by taking a hard look at the realities of modern crime and providing detailed instruction in skills, tactics, and habits you need to keep yourself safe. In it, Michael Janich, world-renowned self-defense authority and co-host of the popular The Best Defense television series, takes you step by step through his proven home and personal-protection methods. In the process, he provides specific tips on hardening your home security, developing a family defense plan, practical unarmed self-defense skills, improvised weapons, pepper sprays, edged weapons, firearms tactics, and self-defense for the physically challenged. More importantly, he teaches you how to recognize and avoid violent crime before it happens.Being on your own can be terrifying. The Best Defense teaches you how to take control of that fear and turn it into positive, tangible actions that will keep you safer.

The Best Defense

Martial Blade Concepts LLC

Originally published by the now-defunct Paladin Press and written by renowned personal-defense authority Michael Janich, this book presents a simple, straightforward system of knife fighting based on Janich's extensive analysis of the Filipino martial arts and military combatives. Widely regarded as one of the true modern classics on this deadly topic, this book provides the average martial artist, soldier, or self-defense-minded citizen with pragmatic skills in the fundamentals offighting with a knife.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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Books by Janich, Michael D.

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Blowguns: The Breath of Death

Knife Fighting: A Practical Course

Street Steel: Choosing and Carrying Self-Defensive Knives

Homemade Martial Arts Training Equipment: A Do-It-Yourself Guide

The Best Defense

Knife Fighting: A Practical Course