In this book, Phil Elmore, publisher of The Martialist: The Magazine For Those Who Fight Unfairly, outlines a basic curriculum of empty-hand self-defense. Shorthand Empty Hand is your expedient key to physical combat using your body's natural weapons. Stylized but pragmatic, Shorthand Empty Hand could save your life.

A bastardized, hybridized form of martial arts and combatives that anyone can learn relatively quickly, Shorthand Empty Hand gives the average citizen the power to fight and win when faced with a violent physical attack. No system is the ultimate system and no book can truly teach you what you must do to fight another human being, but Shorthand Empty Hand gives you the conceptual framework from which to approach fighting with your bare hands.