The Science of Self Defence: A Treatise on Sparring and Wrestling, Including Complete Instructions in Training and Physical Development
By Edmund Price
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But our work is not a treatise on medicine-and we must not frighten our readers, nor must we commit the worst of offences in this wide-awake age by becoming prosy. Our object, then, in this volume is to give a correct and reliable Manual on the "Art of Self Defense", not founded on 'obsolete' rules of aby-gone age, but on the practical results of our own experience adn observation, and we trust, with a clearness and precision that will render it invaluable to the pupil and interesting to the amateur and general reader. We also give such hints on training as will be useful to all persons engaged in sedentary pursuits.
Even those who look with horror and disgust on the Prize Ring are willing to allow that a scientific knowledge of self defence is desirable simply as a means of self preservation and protection, and certainly the philanthropist, of two evils will choose the least, a 'free fight', which, as Shakespeare says, may end in 'bloody noses and cracked crowns', being far preferable to the wholesale butcheries that have too often disgraced the civilization of our large cities.
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The Science of Self Defence - Edmund Price
Table of Contents
Preface
The Arm
THE FEET
The Head
The Body
Sparring
Blow Number One
Blow Number Two
Blow Number Three
Blow Number Four
Blow Number Five
Blow Number Six
Blow Number Seven
Parrying
Parry Number One
Parry Number Two
Parry Number Three
Parry Number Four
Parry Number Five
Parry Number Six
Parry Number Seven
Fibbing
The Cross-Counter And Fibbing
Getting The Head In Chancery
Getting The Head Out Of Chancery
Wrestling As Accessory To Boxing
Side-falls
Cross-Buttocks
STRIKING THE BAG
INTRODUCTION TO TRAINING
Training
CORPULENCY
The Science of Self Defence
Preface
In giving the following pages to the world, we do so with a certain degree of anxiety oscillating between pride and ear-pride at our maiden effort-fear for its success. We began to write this work in 1860, but the war breaking soon after, compelled us to defer the undertaking to a more auspicious season. And now that Military arms are no longer fashionable, doubtless Old Nature's
arms in adjusting quarrels or in self-protection will be the only weapons needed. Therefore as a natural consequence, their practical development and scientific use should be earnestly cutivated.
Some readers may inquire why our work needs a preface, and many devoted to light literature may consider all prefaces bores. With all due deference, we esteem this an error, for from a preface you may glean the author's intentions and opinions in reference to his work. The prefaces of Sir Walter Scott, are models of humor and historic truth and beauty; those of Bulwer instructive and interesting. At all events the most eminent authors in all ages have in their prefaces deprecated the severity of critics and appealed to the kindness of their readers in regard to faults and imperfections and anticipated objections,
Custom exacts, and who denies her sway? A epilogue to every five-act play.
So it is equally imperative on the subject of prefaces. We have therefore resolved that our little bantling shall be ushered into this 'breathing world' with all the literary honors. But what shall our preface treat of? Shall we go back to the days of Greece and Rome and exhibit our classic lore in recoutning the sposrts and games of antiquity; how at religious festivals the noblest of the Grecians and Romans contended in throwing the discus, hurling the javelin, Running, Leaping, Wrestling and Boxing. Shall we tell of teh Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian or Nemean games, and how for ten months the Athletes underwent preparatory training in the Gymnaasion at Elis under the careful tuition of accomplished Masters, and how the greatest Statesmen, Poets, and Warriors contended for the Olive Crown, and how Alcibiades, the finest formed man of his age, owed his exquisite and superb physique to his training for the Olympian games?
He deemed it no small part of his renown To wear the Olive with the Laurel crown.
Our purpose is not to dwell on the past; but no one familiar with the history of the Grecian or Roman people, can fail to realize the fact, that to out-door sports and games they were indebted for their stalwart warriors, warriors that made Rome the mistress of the world. It was only when effeminacy and luxury pervaded the masses of the nation that the seven-hilled Queen fell before the conquering arm of the Goths and Vandals. We presume no one at the present day will deny the advantages (not only to the sedentary, but to everyone) of wise and systematic physical training. The union of strength and beauty in the human form is the greatest point to be achieved, and if 'Mens sana in corpore sano' is the greatest of blessings, it can only be obtained by a judicious exercise of all the powers of the mind and the muscles of the body acting in harmony; therefore we do not fear contradiction in asserting that out-door sports and gymnastic exercises promote cheerfulness, 'clear the cobwebs from the brain', excite a healthy circulation of the blood, and brace and harden the muscles. How many earnest students have defeated all their efforts for the elevation of mankind, by a neglect of this most obvious principle of husbanding and strengthening their physical resources; dooming themselves to a life of suffering and premature grave. We could quote many illustrious examples of this neglect of the body, in the over anxiety for the development of the intellectual powers. Though perfect harmony is perfect beauty, and though the immortal soul, the ever active mind of man, are gems of priceless value, not less worthy of preservation and care is the casket in which they are enshrined.
But our work is not a treatise on medicine-and we must not frighten our readers, nor must we commit the worst of offences in this wide-awake age by becoming prosy. Our object, then, in this volume is to give a correct and reliable Manual on the Art of Self Defense
, not founded on 'obsolete' rules of aby-gone age, but on the practical results of our own experience adn observation, and we trust, with a clearness and precision that will render it invaluable to the pupil and interesting to the amateur and general reader. We also give such hints on training as will be useful to all persons engaged in sedentary pursuits.
Even those who look with horror and disgust on the Prize Ring are willing to allow that a scientific knowledge of self defence is desirable simply as a means of self preservation and protection, and certainly the philanthropist, of two evils will choose the least, a 'free fight', which, as Shakespeare says, may end in 'bloody noses and cracked crowns', being far preferable to the wholesale butcheries that have too often disgraced the civilization of our large cities.
Man is a pugnacious