Texts

These are various texts I have accumulated over the years. I have PDF’ed them, cleaned them up and put them up here as a resource to the community. The actual work in making these available belongs to others, mostly Kirk Lawson, with others from Ralph Grasso and Jimmy Fatwing.

Please note that this page is not a challenge to the copyright or an attempt to seek gain from others work. Unless noted otherwise these are released under a Creative Commons by-nc-sa license.

Also, if you mess about with these and hurt yourself or someone else then it’s your fault, not mine. If you don’t know what you are doing then stick to reading, and leave the doing until you have some competent instruction.

Regole Di Molte - Federico Ghisliero - 1587 (Yeah, I know this out of place!)
The Use Of The Broadsword - T. Page - 1746

Self Defence The Art Of Boxing - Ned Donnelly - 1881
Physical Culture and Self Defense - Robert Fitzsimmons - 1901
Sabre And Bayonet - AC Cunningham - 1906
The Cane As A Weapon - AC Cunningham - 1912
Ju-Jitsu Self Defence - W Bruce Sutherland - 1913
Practical Self Defence - Jacomb - 1918
Tricks of Self-Defence - WH Collingridge - 1920
Jiu Jitsu Wrestling Defence Against A Violent Attack - The Stillman Association - 1922
How To Become Handy With Your Fists - Percy Longhurst - 1922
Master At Arms Badge For Boy Scouts - Anon - 1925
Scout Wall Chart - “The Scout” - 1925?

Combat Sans Armes - Anon - 1941
Disarming and Hand to Hand Combat - Training Bulletin GT-10 - 1942
Shooting To Live - WE Fairnairn and EA Sykes - 1942
Unarmed Action - Micky Wood - 1942
Self Defense or Jiu Jitsu - Dewey Mitchell - 1942
Self Defence For Women - WE Fairbairn - 1942
Get Tough - WE Fairbairn - 1942
Stick Play - Yerkow - 1942
Combat Without Weapons - E Hartley Leather - 1942
Martell’s Simplified Ju Jutsu Offense and Defense - Jules Martell - 1942
Commando Jiu Jitsu - Irvin Cahn - 1943
Combat Conditioning Manual Jiu Jitsu - RE Hanley - 1943
American Art of Self Protection - Samuel B Cummings - 1943
Kill Or Get Killed - Rex Applegate - 1943
Combato - Bill Underwood - 1943
Do Or Die - AJD Biddle - 1944
How To Use Jiu Jitsu - IC King - 1944
American Combat Judo - Bernard J Cosneck - 1944
Judo 41 Lessons In The New Science of Jiu-Jitsu - T Shozo Kuwashima and Ashbel R Welch - 1944
Protect Yourself, The Secrets Of Unarmed Defense - Brooks Mendell - 1944
Abwehr Englischer Gangster-Methoden - Anon - 1945?

Your Hards…Secret Weapons! - Brooks Mendell - 1946
Ju-Jitsu And Other Methods Of Defence Simplified - Tommy Turner - 1948
How to Use The Yawara Stick - Prof. Matsuyama - 1948
Championship Fighting - Jack Dempsey - 1950
Marine Bowie - John Styers - 1950s?
Cold Steel - John Styers - 1952
Lightning Ju-Jitsu - Harry Lord - 1950s?
Modern Self Defense - RH Sigward - 1958
Canon Of Judo - K Mifune - 1958
Special Judo Self-Defense Course - Joe Weider - 1959
Handbook Of Self Defense In Pictures and Text - John Martone - 1962
Police Ju Jitsu - James M Moynahan - 1962
Pencak Silat - Alexander, Chambers & Draeger - 1972

Close Combat - US Marine Corps - 1999
Discussion on Fairbairn, Applegate and Knife Design - William Cassidy - 1999

Le Catch As Catch Can - Bontemps, Miquet and Arnaud - Unknown
The Fine Art Of JuJutsu - Unknown - Unknown

10 Responses to “Texts”

  1. Some Reference Texts » safeism dot com Says:
    August 1st, 2008 at 2:24 pm

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  2. Dan Says:
    October 22nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    Great resource! Thanks for putting this together!

  3. Axel Says:
    October 25th, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Many thanks for putting this up James! See you next week.

  4. tsafa Says:
    October 26th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

    Very nice collection. You might find my website interesting too:

    http://mysite.verizon.net/tsafa1/pell/index.htm

  5. Björn Sollander Says:
    November 3rd, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Thanks for two great workshops.

    regards

    Björn

  6. La Bete Says:
    November 4th, 2008 at 12:48 am

    Thanks guys.

    Björn and Axel - it was great to see you both. Hopefully it won’t be too long until we can train together again. Are you guys planning on going to the DreynEvent?

  7. Tony Says:
    November 26th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    I dont seem to be able to download the text I am after, but some great stuff there.

  8. Kevin C Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Brilliant collection. Without venturing into hyperbole, I would say this is almost scholarly collection of works on the history of close combat and self defense. Nicely done.

  9. Stickgrappler Says:
    December 29th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

    *bows deeply*

    deepest gratitude for your share!

    FYI - AC Cunningham’s The Cane as a Weapon - links to The New Self Defence by Bernard Parsons.

    thank you once again!!

  10. La Bete Says:
    December 29th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    Many thanks Stickgrappler, your own contribution and sharing of knowledge is well known.

    I’ve fixed the link as well, many thanks for letting me know.

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