Chapter I - Beware the bully

Chapter 2 - Fantasy world of violence

Chapter 3 - Who's Bad

Chapter 4 - Monsters do exist

Chapter 5 - Suffer little children

Chapter 6 - Understanding aggression

Chapter 7 - Channelling your own aggression correctly

Chapter 8 - The ticking time bomb

Chapter 9 - Ego

Chapter I0 - Fighters come in many guises

Chapter II - Size isn't everything

Chapter I2 - Are you looking at me?

Chapter I3 - The pack mentality

Chapter I4 - Self defence or self destruction?

Chapter I5 - Cerebral defence

Chapter I6 - Survival steps to dealing with violent people

Chapter I7- Time to tame aggression

Chapter I8 - Armed and dangerous

Chapter I9 - The dark side

Chapter 20 -Once there were warriors

Chapter 2I - It's only words

Chapter 22 - The evil that men (and women) do

Chapter 23 -How safe are you?

When I was asked by Kevin to write the foreword to this, Kevin's third book, I was both honoured and surprised. Honoured, because it is a great privilege to write for such an esteemed leader in the field of self-protection. Surprised because, although I have trained and practised various styles for many years, the last four with the Bristol Goshin Jutsu Combat Academy, I am, by no means, an authority on self-protection or the martial arts. I was simply a student of Kevin's who happened also to be criminal defence lawyer. What then could l, a humble lawyer, possibly have to contribute to a book on self protection by this renowned exponent of the art? A clue was found in the foreword to Kevin's first book, I Thought you'd be Bigger, which along with his second book, In Your Face, holds pride of place on my bookshelf. In that book, Geoff Thompson, describing Kevin as a 'first rate martial artist' stated that Kevin was one of the few highly graded martial artists who is not afraid to learn from just about anyone that has something of worth to share. This insight into Kevin's personality is precisely what makes him a truly inspirable instructor and self-protection expert. Unlike many mainstream styles whose techniques would be more at home in 17th century Japan, Kevin looks to the streets and people of today's inner cities for inspiration for his own unique and brutally effective style. Samurai swords do not feature greatly on the streets - bottles, knives and heavy boots do - and Kevin knows it! And unlike many other styles, Kevin doesn't teach techniques as individual acts, but rather he advocates a manner of self-protection that is both fluid and responsive to the environment. Kevin refers to the techniques of his style as parts of a jigsaw puzzle, each piece (technique) part of a larger whole. lf the attacker doesn't respond to one technique, then you move into another. In this way, each of us was taught to respond to what was physically happening, not to hope that the attacker did this or that and execute the technique regardless. Again, this is the real world - no formal rituals, no time to think. Every technique that Kevin teaches is designed to deal with a real life, in your face, situation. And with each technique that I learnt and practised, I could see, in my opponent, the faces of the defendants that I saw in court each day (no offence to any of my opponents intended!). And that's how I came to be asked to write this foreword. You see, as a criminal defence, lawyer, I spent years in police stations, prisons and courts representing the very kind of people that Kevin's style is designed to defend against - real-life murderers, muggers, rapists and robbers. In the evenings, I would attend Kevin's classes and I would delight in telling him, just after he had demonstrated an attack and how to deal with it, 'Yeah, that's the kind of attack that my client used the other night on some poor bastard in the city centre'. I would delight in it because I knew that it meant that what we were doing was real. This wasn't 17th century Japan stuff. This was real-world, real-time self-protection. I'd be thinking that this is what could have happened to me last night if I'd been in the same place, at the same time, as the particular victim that my client had chosen. Kevin was an enthusiastic listener and was always very interested to know the details. Each day that I sat in court, I would hear tales of violence and intimidation perpetrated by thugs and muggers and every time I would hear the details of what they did, I could see in my mind how Kevin's style and training, had it been known to the victim, would have enabled him or her to turn that threat around and put the attacker on the back foot, (or indeed, as with most of Kevin's techniques, on the ground in pain!). As a lawyer, I had the unique opportunity, unavailable to most students of self-protection, of spending hours talking with my clients, probing them on what they did, and how they chose their victim. And what I learnt from these people is what I can contribute to this book. I can tell you, without hesitation, that there is not one technique that Kevin teaches that is unrealistic nor one attack that he drills each student, or reader of this book, to protect him or herself against, that has not been used in real life somewhere on the streets of Britain last night or that will not be tried again tomorrow by some thug. What you will read and learn in the following pages, happens. People are knocked to the ground. People are kicked senseless on the streets. I have seen so many victims in court, who, if only they knew how to effectively protect themselves and to grapple once on the ground, could have saved themselves a beating. lf you end up on the ground on the street it is a whole lot different to a competition arena. You will need to know tactics and techniques within this text to save yourself a trip to hospital or worse! Read this book. What you will learn from it is 'reality' of the streets and how to survive. Matthew Adkins, Solicitor,

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