E-Book Resource: Unarmed Combat and Stick Fighting

So when I discussed some of the more general sources of info recently, I generally listed some major repositories with the warning that you would need to explore those repositories to find the books and information that might interest you. But I thought I would periodically post more specific links to a collection, library, or specific titles that would be of interest to the prepper/survivalist.

     Following are a selection of books on unarmed, empty-handed fighting styles and techniques that I found available free to download, as well as a few that deal with stick fighting. I have focused on books about styles or techniques that I believe would be effective for someone in a street fight or for self-defense. Accordingly, I ignored anything with "ninja" in its title, books concerned with pressure point fighting (which, in my limited experience, is generally worse than useless in an actual fight), as well as most books in the popular martial art sports of Japan, China or Korea such as Karate, Kung-Fu and Tae-Kwon-Do (unless incorporated into a serious book on self-defense) as practitioners of those arts have generally not fared well in MMA fights.

MMA Books:

• Wrestling for Fighting: The Natural Way by Randy Couture. Couture was a long-time wrestler and coach who eventually took his skills from Olympic style wrestling to great success in professional MMA.
• Throws for Strikers: The Forgotten Throws of Karate, Boxing and Taekwondo by Iain Abernethy.
• Combat Kick Boxing by Pat O'Keeffe.

Military Training:

• Get Tough by W. E. Fairbairn.
• Get Tough! by William E. Fairbairn. This appears to be the same book as above, but with larger illustrations (and, therefore, more pages).
• Marine Corps Martial Arts MCRP 3-02B (1999).
• Deal The First Deadly Blow FM 21-150 (1971).
• Arwrology: All Out Hand to Hand Fighting by Gordon Perrigard.
• Cold Steel by John Styers. I've linked to this book before, but this is a better version of it than the prior copy. Also, this book is primarily about using the bayonet and knife, but it also has sections on unarmed combat and using a stick (baton).

Street Fighting/Self-Defense/Martial Arts:

• Boxing Mastery by Mark Hatmaker and Doug Werner 
• The Secrets of Street Self-Defence by Paul Wellard.
• Striking For Power And Speed by Joe Driscoll.
• Combato: The Art Of Self Defence by W. J. Underwood.
• 1,001 Street Fighting Secrets by Sammy Franco.
• No Holds Barred Fighting: The Ultimate Guide to Submission Wrestling Martial Arts Self Defense by Mark Hatmaker and Doug Werner.
• No Holds Barred Fighting: The Clinch by Mark Hatmaker (EPDF).
• No Holds Barred Fighting: The Clinch by Mark Hatmaker (Internet Archive).
• No Holds Barred Fighting: The Book of Essential Submissions by Mark Hatmaker.
• No Holds Barred Fighting: Savage Strikes by Mark Hatmaker.
• More No Holds Barred Fighting: Killer Submissions by Mark Hatmaker.
• Wrestling (The Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals).
• Muay Thai: The Art of Fighting. This appears to be a mixture of a history or explanation about the system as well as some actual techniques.
• The Throws and Take-downs of GrecoRoman Wrestling by Geoff Thompson.
• The Throws and Take-downs of Freestyle Wrestling by Geoff Thompson.
• The Throws and Take-downs of Judo by Geoff Thompson.
• The Throws and Take-downs of Sombo Russian Wrestling by Geoff Thompson.
• Real Head, Knees & Elbows by Geoff Thompson.
• Real Punching by Geoff Thompson.
• Pentjak Silat: The Indonesian Fighting Art by Howard Alexander, Quintin Chambers, and Donn F. Draeger.
• Fighter's Notebook by Kirik Jenness.
• Fighting by Bob Breen.
• Street Fighting: America's Martial Art by George Carpenter.

Stick Fighting:

• The Filipino Martial Arts by Dan Inosanto. Although this has empty-hand techniques, the majority of the book appears to be about stick fighting.
• Modern Arnis: The Filipino Art of Stick Fighting by Remy Presas.
• Fighting With Sticks by Nick Evangelista.
• Stick Fighting: Techniques of Self-Defense by Masaaki Hatsumi and Quintin Chambers.

Miscellaneous:

• Combat Conditioning by Matt Furey. A guide to fitness exercises for practitioners of combat sports.
• Weight Training for the Martial Artist by Geoff Thompson.
• Encyclopaedia of Wrestling by Dr. Marphool Singh.
• The Art of Fighting Without Fighting: Techniques in Personal Threat Evasion by Geoff Thompson. 
• Principles Of Personal Defense by Jeff Cooper.

Disclaimer: I'm not the author of any of the documents or things linked above and cannot vouch for their accuracy or completeness--use them at your own risk. I am not responsible for the posting or offering of any of the documents or things in the collections and/or libraries and have no control over whether they are posted or taken down.