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Demonstrating through fight metrics how just as many matches are won by strikes as submissions, this manual addresses the importance of proper 'grounding' and lists an array of riding, pinning, and transitioning skills. It offers a one-stop solution for this vital but often overlooked aspect of the mixed martial arts arena.

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The techniques taught in this title enable fighters and self-defense students to knockdown and knockout their opponents. Every punch, kick, elbow blow, knee strike, head-butt, forearm shot and shoulder- butt is detailed.

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Boxing is more about what you do in response to punches than punching prowess itself. This guide is an encyclopedia of counter boxing and includes every effective defense, response and follow-up combination to every attack.--Publisher.

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From Leroy Jones sparring with chickens and Ken Norton's 15 combined rounds of shadow boxing, sparring, and bag work to Ricky Hatton's staggering 12-round sparring bouts with a body belt and Kosta Tszyu's creative tennis-ball and head-strap punching apparatus, this work highlights a vocabulary of exercises, incorporating boxing-specific equipment.

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Illustrates and tells how to throw advanced combinations, cut off the ring, fight off the ropes, generate power and most of all not get hit.

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Focusing on a single fighting position, this handbook examines the clinch. Providing explanations of various aspects of positioning in the clinch, it helps fighters set up their own clinch takedowns and beat those used against them in the ring. It gives fighters the most complete education in turning the clinch to their advantage.

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A guide to both perfecting and defending against the low kick. It demonstrates how to expand the low-kicking arsenal, showing how a simple alteration in leg targeting can strongly challenge an opponent's defense, and how to hone low-line kicking power and speed so that rapid-fire low-line kicking becomes a powerful advantage.

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Suitable for aspiring or practising no-holds-barred (NHB) athletes, this manual employs the regimens of top NHB athletes. Explaining how to apply the scientific concepts of specificity and synergy to create tailored workout routines, it features scores of exercises - from old standbys to modern training techniques - for various types of athletes.

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Emphasising the 'mix' in mixed martial arts, this manual addresses the inherent problems in combining different fighting styles. Pioneering a unique drilling matrix that allows the fighter to dissolve the distinctions between separate arts, it allows practitioners to effortlessly blend the different disciplines into one seamless whole.

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Covering the essential tactic and art of striking in a series of blows, this guide illustrates how today's best mixed martial arts fighters have discovered the devastating effect of "punches in bunches", or strike combinations - a mix that includes fists, kicks, elbows, and knees.

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This advanced guide to submission wrestling--the underlying fighting skill associated with such events as the Ultimate Fighting Championships--continues the straightforward, pragmatic approach to ultimate-fighting instruction begun in "No Holds Barred Fighting." 450 photos.

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A guide that illustrates how to skilfully perform such fighting moves as go-to finishing holds and tap-outs. It details more than 100 high-percentage submissions using sequenced action photographs to help strengthen the wrestling vocabulary of Mixed Martial Arts athletes.

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Contains the information fighters need to know about the art of takedowns, and how to counter takedown tactics used by an opponent. Readers learn to see it from both sides with offensive and defensive stances, footwork, setups, and shooting techniques. Several variations of the commonly employed shots are featured as well as counters for each.

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Explores the mindset of both attacker and victim, and illuminates the dynamic between the two. This book offers information that could mean the difference between life and death in the event of a physical assault. It includes drills to increase awareness, and examples for using the environment as a self-defense tool.

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