Bob Kasper's Individual Close Combat Volumes 1 & 2

After World War II, training in hand-to-hand combat stopped abruptly, as interest in the Eastern martial arts blossomed. Convinced that these close-quarter techniques, which had been forged in the streets of Shanghai, China, and tempered in the Pacific and European theaters of war, represented the true essence of close combat, and concerned that they would be lost forever, a handful of men decided to preserve this knowledge. One of these men was Bob Kasper.
Bob Kasper was an avid practitioner of the martial arts for more than 30 years. A student of the late Charles Nelson, Kasper was a former U.S. Marine Corps military policeman and U.S. Army Reserve cavalry scout; director of the Gung-Ho Chuan Association, a brotherhood of Marine Corps veteran close-combat instructors; founder of the American Karate Jutsu Association; and he held black belts and instructor ranks in several martial art disciplines. He wrote these two volumes of Individual Close Combat Techniques in 2001-2002 but never published them. The first volume is on principles and tactics while the second volume concentrates on stance and movement. It is great honor for Paladin to offer these two volumes under one cover, with an exclusive new foreword by Kelly McCann, who trained in combatives and knife fighting with Kasper.