A Mind for the Fight: An Evolutionary Mindset and Systems-Focused Approach Towards a Unified Skillset for Self-Defense, Street Survival, and Combat Sports Excellence

A Mind for the Fight provides you with the necessary tools to facilitate a critical evolution in your survival mindset. Retired Green Beret, renowned martial artist, and infamous street fighter Jim "Smokey" West offers a comprehensive guide to developing the mental game necessary to turn your defense into offense when a violent street assault finds you. Moreover, this book presents the foundation, framework, and technical fight principles of American Extension Fighting, a philosophy of martial arts that takes a nonlinear, systems-focused approach towards a unified skill set for the 21st Century. Gaps exist in everyone’s skill set; AEF’s goal is to fill those gaps, and to do so with a guilt-free assessment of individual system variances and system failures, fostering continual improvement -- improvement that will ensure you survive and thrive when confronted with chaotic, real-world violence. A Mind for the Fight offers you a roadmap to excellence in both combat sports and street survival, enabling you to work through fear, eradicate the threat, and come out on the other side. Read more