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Let me begin by saying thanks to the many readers who made the first Fighter’s Fact Book a bestseller in the martial arts genre. Thanks for the nice reviews and for the kind emails over the years.

I’ve written quite a few books on the martial arts, about two dozen at this point. I would not have written nearly that many without the invaluable help from my martial arts pals around the world. I’m talking about the 11 writers whose work appears in this book whose combined experience adds up to over 300 years and their combined black belt ranking adds up to around 75th dan. Their street experience can only be measured in their scars and their hard-earned knowledge that they share in their books, DVDs, classes, and in this volume of Fighter’s Fact Book 2: The Street.

As a character in one of those poorly dubbed Hong Kong chop socky flicks would say, “These guys are pretty tough guys. Their kung fu is very good.” Well, for sure they are tough and some have indeed studied kung fu; mostly though, they represent a large variety of fighting disciplines that have helped them survive real world violence. Their knowledge is street tested. For some of them, it’s still tested every day.

I was most pleased that my friends agreed to contribute to this book. I was pleased for my own selfish reason in that I would get to learn from them, as I have so often before. And I was pleased that their contribution, based on their experiences on the street, would make this book the highly informative one it is.

Fighter’s Fact Book 2 isn’t about pretend fighting at a Saturday tournament. It’s not about a fun way to lose weight, a look into another culture, or any of the other things that martial arts study offers. It’s about survival, plain and simple, written by martial arts veterans who know how to fight in an arena that isn’t anything like the clean, open space of a training facility. These warriors can function when their pulse rate hammers at 175 beats-per-minute and when their adrenaline surges like a tsunami. They know fear and they know how to make it work for them.

I know you will enjoy this book as much as I have writing, compiling, and editing it. Read it carefully and heed its advice.

Be safe and train hard.