How to Fight Tough

By Jack Dempsey

Book Overview

A very rare WWII combative, "How to Fight Tough", has been reprinted and is now available! This reprint is a faithful reproduction of the original with original formatting and graphics and digitally-enhanced photographs.

At the outset of World War II, boxing heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey was appointed as a lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard and given the job of director of physical fitness. His orders: "Make 'em tough!" His task: to teach rookie Coast Guardsmen how to fight down and dirty in the face of the very real threat of enemy troops infiltrating American shores.

Get in the ring with "the Manassa Mauler" as he gives 18 fully illustrated lessons in the art of bashing and brawling on the battlefield, including Subduing an Armed Enemy, The Unbreakable Strangle, Beating the Punch, Hammering Your Way Out of a Stranglehold, The Belt Trick, Fooling the Smart Knife Man, Turning the Tables with a Bayonet and Breaking a Standoff. All students of nasty close-quarters combat in the tradition of Sykes, Fairbairn, Applegate and other giants of the World War II era will thoroughly enjoy this fascinating piece of history.

"How to Fight Tough," written by the toughest man in America, is a simple, clear and complete illustrated text book on how to deal with the enemy-and subdue him-in any possible emergency.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1958425346
• ISBN13: 9781958425343
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Budoworks
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A CLASSIC

Great WW2 CQB from the great Jack Dempsey! On a par with similar classics like Fairborn's GET TOUGH & Applegate's KILL OR GET KILLED. Basic,easy to teach & learn & most importantly,deadly effective over a range of conditions. A "must have" for any martial artist's library.

I liked it

Ok, I didn't buy the book for any fighting skills I wished to acquire, I bought it as I am a huge Jack Dempsey fan. I found the book to be interesting, certainly a quick read if you aren't reading it for the defence skills taught but to see how books like this were written during war-time. It is a good buy for the history buff, the boxing historian/completist or the person wanting to know simple (but seemingly good) self-defence moves.

How to fight tough

People who don't review this book well do not understand its significance. Dempsey's lead jolt was the inspiration for Bruce Lee's straight lead which is the basis of Jeet Kune Do. Yes, its true that many of these techniques appear in other books, but they were innovated here by Dempsey. Read Dempsey and then read Bruce Lee and see if you can't find a direct lineage.