"Eyes Wide Open covers the full spectrum of self-defense from a technical standpoint using bodyguard strategies. This 288-page text is worth reading
several times...."
Black Belt Magazine, July 2002

"The recently published book Eyes Wide Open is a milestone in books on martial arts, self-defense and self-improvement in general. This work, authored by female martial artist and self-protection expert Kristie Kilgore, covers areas previously only given glancing touches or lip service...This formidable body of work is well put together and reads very easily. The subjects covered apply to everyone..."
"This book is required reading for all my students."
Grandmaster Michael De Alba
Farang MuSul System
July 2002

"....hair raising and thoroughly engrossing....Through hundreds of examples that mix real-life lessons with the latest psychologic theories on victimization, Kilgore demonstates how to think, act and look like a person who is in control. How to be your own bodyguard."
Sally Baker
Colgate University
Colgate Scene, July 2002

The Book

Eyes Wide Open and Kristie Kilgore have been featured in Black Belt Magazine, NBC in Los Angeles, The Jordan Rich Show, she has been a repeat guest on the Ken Hamblin Show, The Tonya Mock Show, Daybreak, featured in The Roseville Press, The Chicago Tribune, Good Morning America, and Channel 3 Newshow in Phoenix, and other media events. For more information on Eyes Wide Open or to order a copy visit: www.Clinetop.com or www. Amazon.com.

Eyes Wide Open was released by Clinetop Press in December 2001, receiving positive and enthusiastic reviews. Eyes Wide Open is an antidote to fear and powerlessness in the face of violence for Americans. It is a “go to guide” filled with preventative measures and should be read by everyone.

Eyes Wide Open began in the early 1990's when Kristie was privately studying martial arts with a professional bodyguard. She realized that the concepts used by bodyguards to take their clients from safe location to safe location could be used by every day people to avoid violence.

Kristie began reading available material on the subject, and collecting the stories of both male and female victims of violence. In the year 2000, Gary Hubbell of Clinetop Press contracted Kristie to write the book Eyes Wide Open:Bodyguard Strategies for Self-protection.  The book is based on real stories of real people  The book was published in 2001, just after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.