Black Belt author Kelly McCann is a former U.S. Marine special-missions officer responsible for counterterrorism and counter-narcotics. He now serves as the president of Crucible, an elite empty-hand and weapons-training facility that provides security support services and trains military, government and law-enforcement operators to do whatever it takes to survive. He has taught combatives and other special-ops skills for more than 25 years to a list of clients that includes the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as other U.S. government agencies and special-mission units. He and his team have operated and provided training in more than 30 of the most volatile countries, from Afghanistan and Iraq to Bosnia and Haiti.
The duties and services Kelly McCann has rendered over the years reveal his specialties: the development and implementation of numerous concealed-weapons courses, combative-skills curricula and street-crime avoidance programs. Kelly McCann also has served as a subject-matter expert in close-quarters combat, high-risk protective services, high-risk-environment force protection tactics, and terrorist techniques and procedures. Kelly McCann has served as a military and security analyst for Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.
Kelly McCann collaborated with Black Belt on Combatives for Street Survival: Hard-Core Countermeasures for High-Risk Situations. His book teaches you how to prevail in any street conflict with devastatingly effective principles and brutal techniques.
– September 5, 2012
An index position is nothing more than a stance you assume in any threatening, face-to-face situation you can’t simply walk away from. You’ll recognize when it’s appropriate to “index” because you’ll feel really uneasy and uncertain. Indexing enables you to instantly defend or attack without the appearance of being prepared
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– September 14, 2011
The Combatives for Street Survival Book+DVD Set has been a very successful entry in the ever-expanding Black Belt martial arts multimedia collection. The self-defense content is first-rate, presented by a high-caliber book author and demonstrated on-screen by a dynamic and entertaining modern martial arts instructor. Both the author and presenter
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– June 29, 2011
Combatives and self-defense expert Kelly McCann comments on use of live training partners in this exclusive combatives training video! McCann details certain commonplace aspects of martial arts training that should NOT be part of combatives training with a live partner. He and his partner Jack Stradley discuss grabs and assailants
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– March 23, 2011
Kelly McCann comments on “rage with reason” in this EXCLUSIVE CLIP from the new DVD series, Combatives for Street Survival: Hard-Core Countermeasures for High-Risk Situations. Get into the nuts and bolts of fighting as McCann shows you how to fight back decisively against someone who’s trying to hurt you.
– March 23, 2011
Kelly McCann and Jack Stradley narrate a real-world scenario involving an alley attack in this EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW for the highly anticipated companion-DVD collection for their acclaimed book, Combatives for Street Survival: Hard-Core Countermeasures for High-Risk Situations. This three-DVD series takes you into the nuts and bolts of fighting as McCann
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– March 23, 2011
Kelly McCann narrates a real-world scenario involving a stairway attack in this EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW for the highly anticipated companion-DVD collection for his acclaimed book, Combatives for Street Survival: Hard-Core Countermeasures for High-Risk Situations. This three-DVD series takes you into the nuts and bolts of fighting as McCann shows you in
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– March 23, 2011
Kelly McCann explains what to do in the event of a slashing knife attack in this EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW for the highly anticipated companion-DVD collection for his acclaimed book, Combatives for Street Survival: Hard-Core Countermeasures for High-Risk Situations. This three-DVD series takes you into the nuts and bolts of fighting as
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– March 23, 2011
Rachelle Lagnado was recruited to pose as an attack victim who fights back during the filming of Kelly McCann’s DVD series, COMBATIVES FOR STREET SURVIVAL. In this behind-the-scenes look at filming a real-world scenario sequence, viewers get to see a glimpse of how much goes into making such a simple
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– March 23, 2011
Raymond Horwitz is recruited to pose as an attack victim during the filming of Kelly McCann’s DVD series, COMBATIVES FOR STREET SURVIVAL. In this lighthearted behind-the-scenes look at filming a real-world scenario sequence, it becomes obvious that sometimes editors should remain editors and leave self-defense demonstrations to the professionals… but
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– March 23, 2011
Train to prevail in any street conflict or assault situation with Kelly McCann in this highly anticipated companion-DVD collection for his acclaimed book, Combatives for Street Survival: Hard-Core Countermeasures for High-Risk Situations. In this three-DVD fighting series, McCann shows you in his inimitable style how to destroy someone who’s trying
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