Applying the Right Amount of Force: Judo’s Contribution to Law Enforcement

By David Hammond

The distillation of years of study and practice of Judo, this book will be a real eye-opener for anybody that mistakenly thinks of Judo being first and foremost a sport.Thoroughly researched, Applying the Right Amount of Force charts the use of Judo as a tool for controlling an adversary in a real fight. The book details the spread of Judo across the world of police and military operations, noting key individuals who have helped influence various outfits. The development of tai-ho-jutsu and Sambo are also chronicled as relevant developments of Kano's ideas and system.Kano's not only distilled the best from Japan's ancient jujutsu arts, but he devised a training method that has lasted the test of time. Incorporating strikes as well as locks and throws into his system, he also understood that the way techniques are trained is vital to efficacy. This book not only traces the use of Judo as a fighting system, but looks at the way that Kano's method has influenced the way police and military prepare individuals for physical confrontation. With a degree in psychology to go along with his decades of judo experience, David Hammond explains philosophical, psychological and physiological processes that Kano incorporated into Judo, processes that are widely used by today's security trainer professionals.As well as charting the development and use of Judo in security settings, this book is also a practical manual, with examples of techniques that are highly relevant to real security work. Often these techniques are accompanied with tales of their use in live situation by the author or his colleagues.Judo, as it's founder Dr Jigoro Kano pointed out, is "the study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue and, when attacked, defend yourself." It has been used extensively within the security world and although the terminology may change, Kano's teachings of the reality of physical conflict are still highly valued today by those who train to use violence on a regular basis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1098594584
• ISBN13: 9781098594589
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 129 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"