Doran's Science of Self Defense

[lklawson]

I have republished Doran's Science of Self Defense by Bart J. Doran.

Special Thanks to Ken Pfrenger and Craig Gemeiner for allowing me to republish this rare manual.

The download is, as always, free.

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/dorans-science-of-self-defense/7578495

Blurb:

Little information is readily available about the enigmatic Bart J. Doran save what he himself writes in his 1889 boxing manual. Ah, but what a manual it is!

Doran claims to have been an instructor of Boxing at the University of Michigan and at athletic clubs in Memphis, Cincinnati, and even Hamilton, Canada.

He targets his work specifically at new boxers with no prior instruction and no access to a regular instructor with particular emphasis, in his estimation, at covering information typically left out or poorly instructed by other “famous” writers.

Besides the usual unusual complement of Pugilistic grappling, strikes, blocks, footwork, and the drop-step, Doran includes a tantalizing early look at a power generation technique which the great Jack Dempsey would later include in his manual as the shoulder whirl. To further pique modern interest, he includes instruction for a “wall pad”; what readers today would readily identify as a Makiwara, fully 10 years before the major introduction of Japanese martial arts to the west by Edward William Barton-Wright.

Packed with 36 digitally restored illustration, instruction on bag punching, a dumb-bell exercise routine, and an unusual version of the little known American Fair Play Rules of boxing, this rare manual is sure to please modern martial artists and boxing historians alike.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk

 

[Nagel]

This is excellent, truly a rare treasure. Thank you!

 

[lklawson]

This is excellent, truly a rare treasure. Thank you!

My pleasure.

Have you gotten a chance to read Carpentier?

It's a decent book but pretty much of a kind with other period examples. What I really liked about it was his advice on the clinch and watching the opponent's body, posture, and footwork for tells.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk