Spotting Danger Before It Spots You: Head's Up
Autor Gary Dean Quesenberryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 iun 2020
Continuing on the path of The Gift of Fear (Gavin deBecker),Spotting Danger Before It Spots You is the go-to guide for anyone wanting to improve their level of awareness and strengthen their personal defenses. This book will greatly improve your understanding of how, when and where violence occurs, providing you with the tools you need to properly identify and escape violent encounters before they can happen.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1594397376
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: YMAA Publication Center
Seria Head's Up
Notă biografică
Gary Quesenberry is a US Army veteran and a career Federal Air Marshal. As a defensive tactics trainer for Federal and civilian services, he has devoted his life to studying the areas of violence and predatory behavior. Gary serves as the CEO of Quesenberry Personal Defense Training and has developed numerous basic and advanced level training courses focused on mental toughness, marksmanship, and defensive tactics. As a competitive pistol shooter, Gary has been featured on the History Channel's hit television series Top Shot - Season 3 and Top Shot All-Stars. He has an extensive background in domestic and foreign counter-terror training and has worked in both the private and corporate sectors to help educate others on the importance of situational awareness, and personal safety. Gary resides in Hillsville, Virginia.
Cuprins
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PHASE ONE - Understand the threat
Chapter 1: The basics of predatory behavior
- 1.1 How predators choose their targets - The seven-second PROD
- 1.2 Perception
- 1.3 Risk
- 1.4 Observable value
- 1.5 Defenses
- 1.6 Think Like a Predator
- Situational Awareness in Action: The Foiled Millennium Terror Plot
- Exercise: Target Selection
- Key Points
Chapter 2: Conducting a self-assessment
- 2.1 Who would target you?
- 2.2 What do they want?
- 2.3 When would they strike?
- 2.4 Where would they strike?
- 2.5 Start Thinking Like a Protector
- Situational Awareness in Action: The Attempted Time Square Bombing
- Exercise: Using the Self-Assessment
- Key Points
PHASE TWO - Build your situational awareness
Chapter 3: The basics of awareness
- 3.1 Defining the threat - Perception vs. Reality
- 3.2 The levels of awareness
- 3.3 Understanding the Reactionary Gap
- Situational Awareness in Action: Joey Grundl's Big Delivery
- Exercise: The What-If Game
- Key Points
Chapter 4: The next level of awareness - Comprehend, Identify, and Anticipate
- 4.1 Comprehend the situation
- 4.2 Identify what's important
- 4.3 Anticipate outcomes
- 4.4 The Role of Intuition
- Situational Awareness in Action: Ten-Year-Old Danny DiPietro
- Exercise: Environmental KIMs Games
- Key Points
PHASE THREE - Develop personal defenses
Chapter 5: What comes next
- 5.1 Establishing a basis for action
- 5.2 Avoidance - The safest option
- 5.3 Escape
- 5.4 De-escalation
- 5.5 Confrontation
- Situational Awareness in Action: Lee Parker's Backpack
- Exercise: Route Planning
- Key Points
Chapter 6: Reinforcing your defenses
- 6.1 Improving mindset
- 6.2 Minimizing distractions
- 6.3 Controlling fear
- 6.4 Building Confidence
- Situational Awareness in Action: Julianne Moore Stops a Kidnapper
- Exercise: Counting Drills
- Key Points
Chapter 7: Putting It All Together
- Situational Awareness in Action: Uber Hero Keith Avila
- Exercise: Six Steps to Spotting Trouble
- Key Points
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR