So You Want To Be A Bouncer

Violence: A Writer's Guide (Second Edition) introduces writers to a world of terror, pain and blood.A world where lives are changed forever in a few desperate seconds.A world where innocent people, heroes, and the most depraved criminals live, thrive, suffer and die in a constant struggle for survival.This is your world. It's the real world.Bad things happen in the real world.This book is for writers who write about assault, fighting, war, and other conflict. For writers who write about violence.

"This is a fabulous Book. I wish I'd had it twenty years ago. How much hassle I could have avoided. The words are informed, empirical and in places profound. This is the 'door' bible for a new age. Highly recommended." Geoff Thompson - Author of Dead or Alive: The Choice is Yours and veteran ex-Door Man So you're a black belt, bodybuilder and think you have all the skills it takes to be a bouncer, huh? Well you may make a great 'bouncer', but if you want to become a professional crowd controller/ door supervisor who can handle situations effortlessly and with as little violence as possible then you are intelligent enough to recognize the importance of mastering the techniques in this book. With the nightlife industry becoming so heavily regulated and more and more venues taking a hard line on their 'no hit' policies, the nightlife security industry has dramatically changed since the old days of gorilla bouncers throwing people into trash bins, and therefore by necessity new skills have evolved. The author has over a decade of experience in the security industry and set out on a quest to codify the most workable techniques in nightlife security and educate others on their use to handle situations effectively, but with as little violence as possible. The author credits his background as a lawyer with many grueling years of experience in dispute resolution as his influence for many of the techniques outlined in this book which require a subtle, yet highly effective method of gaining compliance in oppositional situations. This book is the culmination of many years of trial and error by the author in learning the most practical and workable techniques of crowd control and learning from the wisdom of veteran security professionals and police officers. Just a few techniques you will learn in this book include: - Canned routines from experienced crowd controllers on how to refuse people entry and conduct evictions which are easy to learn and put into practice; - Multiple ways to gain leverage in confronting situations by using your environment; and - How to control situations verbally and use a little known 'Jedi trick' which demands compliance.

'So, you want to be a Bouncer' is the essential guide to becoming an SIA Licenced Door Supervisor in the UK.If you want to become a Door Supervisor in the UK then this book is a must have, written by two still active Doorman with 43 years of experience between them, Stu Armstrong (The Diaries of a Doorman) who has been working the doors for twenty years and Ryder Scott (Chanel 4 Bouncers) with twenty three years of working the doors.As if this didn't qualify them enough, Stu is an accomplished author in the field and Ryder is one of the most respected approved trainers of Door Supervisors and Close Protection Operatives in the UK.This book covers the history of the job, it asks is this job really for you, how to find the very best training and what to expect on this training, how to find a job and what to expect on your first night on the door as well as some excellent advice on coping with the after effects of violence for the first time.For more information please visit www.stuarmstrong.com or www.rssprotectiontraining.co.uk

In Clublife, Rob takes readers on a harrowing tour of the seedy, dangerous, and often deranged world of New York's hottest nightclubs. In the tradition of Kitchen Confidential and The Tender Bar, Clublife is a remarkable memoir of the nightclub business and how drugs, alcohol, troublemakers, and violence conspire against the men clubs enlist to keep it all under control. Brutally honest and filled with incredible tales only a true insider could tell, Clublife gives readers an all-access pass into the seamy subculture of New York nightclub security.

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This is the amazing, terrifying, muscle-packed story of the most feared and respected bouncer in the country. When Stellakis Stylianou, known to his friends - and his enemies - as Stilks, was a kid growing up in London he was so poor that he had to go out hunting pigeons for his family's supper. It was the memory of those lean days that made him vow that his own family would never be hungry again. And so he forged a life for himself doing what he knew best - using his muscle and his unstoppable force to keep law and order on the streets, in a way that no uniformed copper could ever do...Now he has risen to become the most famous club doorman in the world. Woe betide anyone who mistakes his firm politeness for weakness.

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You will be reading real scenarios to give you a flavor of what has happened, both positive and negative, in the club scene. The book is divided into four sections; (1) Bouncers, which provides useful background information on who we are; (2) Players, which identifies who the people are that provide the variety of roles of support to you in the night life world, (3) Things you need to know, which gives you important guidelines to follow when you enter the bouncing scene from the beginning to the end of your evening, and last but not least (4) Memoirs, which discusses the things that can occur in and outside the normal guidelines of our world.