What are contact weapons and how are they used in violent crimes? Why can't you "just shoot him"? Which weapons can severely injure or even kill you? What are the physiological and psychological effects of a violent attack on your person? What are the best-kept secrets to surviving personal combat? What are the basic skills you should have to win in any fight? A comprehensive review of surviving a violent crime involving contact weapons, this volume takes you deep into the mind and anatomy of real-life victims and brings you back out to the personal combat strategies necessary to your survival if it were YOU on the receiving end. Presented by world-renowned operational skills/defensive tactics professional Steve Tarani and highly respected veteran homicide/violent crimes detective Damon Fay, this material is designed to provide you with survival options for some of the worst-case, life-or-death contact weapon threats you could possibly encounter. WARNING: Cover and contents of this book include graphic photos that represent real-life confrontations that may be disturbing.