It's Only Pain
Subtitle: A young man’s journey from ‘indestructible’ to ‘completely broken'.
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: October 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781425904227
Subjects: Biography: general; General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
Description: Bravery and stupidity are regular bedfellows – pain is the natural child of that relationship!
‘Its Only Pain!’ is a truly gripping, often funny, extremely violent story of naivety, friendship, family differences, Special Forces operations and guerrilla warfare.
All of the events in this film are based on true experiences. 
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood of being trained in various martial arts, Andy Hopwood is invited to travel overseas to join a military combat school; despite the wishes of his family he accepts the invitation - this experience leads him to great friendships, incredible adventures and causes him to be subjected to many violent confrontations and conflict situations, witnessing the deaths of many friends along the way. 
All of the characters are based on real people, although most of the names are fictitious, as are the African towns and countries.

This is the story of a young man’s journey from ‘indestructible’ to ‘completely broken’…
Notes: Andy Hopwood is the Founder and Chief Instructor of the BFFA (British Free Fighting Academy) and is widely recognised as being one of the leading authorities on self protection and self defence.
He has made several instructional DVD’s on these subjects and instructs seminars to the corporate market, schools and to the general public.
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