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Mixed Martial Arts For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))
 
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Your full-color guide to this wildly popular combat sport!

Mixed martial arts is sweeping the globe! In this practical guide, legendary MMA Champion Frank Shamrock shares his expertise and love for the sport. He introduces you to his famous training and fighting system, explaining the virtues, ethics, and techniques of MMA in clear detail while showing you how to develop a safe, effective training regimen.

  • Begin with MMA basics — discover the history, the fighting styles, and modern rules and training techniques
  • Prepare to start training — strengthen your body, focus your mind, learn the concepts of combat, and find a good instructor

  • Stand up for yourself — your introductory course in stand up fighting, from essential strikes and defense to inside fighting with the clinch and takedowns

  • Get ready to grapple — understand the essentials of ground fighting, including the guard position, submissions, and escapes

  • Become a well-rounded fighter — improve your nutrition, develop a warm-up routine, expand your mental training, and get the rest you need

Open the book and find:

  • Proven strategies to train your body and mind
  • More than 150 step-by-step, full-color photos illustrating proper technique

  • The 8 positions of power

  • Necessary MMA training equipment

  • The styles and strategies of MMA competition

  • Fight-specific training drills and games

  • Tips for increasing your speed and avoiding injury

  • Advice from the expert on improving your ground game

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MMA for Dummies is a very smart book
 
Review Date: May 8, 2009
Reviewer: Alex A, San Jose, CA
The MMA for Dummies book by Frank Shamrock was very easy to read with a lot of great photos of the exercises and moves. Very helpful for all levels. It isn't just jiujitsu or judo or wrestling but a mix of all the styles of martial arts and his way of thinking is very interesting. It takes you from beginning MMA all the way to being inside the cage, if that's your thing.

I would definitely recommend it.
Great outline for a sound MMA system.
 
Review Date: July 4, 2009
Reviewer: Eric D. Schlemmer, Midwest
This book is very well writtten and very well organized. Frank's systems are very applicable and bulletproof. Money spent on this book would be money well spent for anyone looking to expand their knowledge on the art of mixed martial arts.
Very Informative Book for the Average and Not So Average MMA Fan
 
Review Date: July 7, 2009
Reviewer: Shawn Kovacich, The Greatest Little City in the World
This is a very well written and laid out basic guide to MMA (mixed martial arts) for not only the fans, but also for aspiring MMA competitors. Written extremely well by noted MMA legend, Frank Shamrock, this book really leaves very little, if anything, to be desired for the average fan.

Sure there are much better books out there on learning certain techniques, but that is not what this book is all about. Although I wouldn't necessarily agree entirely with the title, this book presents the world of MMA in a brief, yet very well done light and although the die-hard MMA fans may not find much new information in it, it would be very hard to argue that this book isn't "THE" book to get in order to enlighten yourself on a basic level to the world of MMA. And in that respect this book is outstanding.

Shawn Kovacich
Martial Artist/Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series.
good old frank
 
Review Date: December 16, 2009
Reviewer: Fedel Igor, istra,croatia
frank shamrock did it again,this book is combination of frank unique fighting system . he shares his fightin secret whit all mma fans. good dan frank
An Excellent Guide for Novice Coaches & Fighters
 
Review Date: May 12, 2010
Reviewer: Andrew O. Brien, UK
If you're thinking of breaking into MMA as either a competitor or as a coach, add this book to your library. As a karateka I already had a pretty good stand-up and kicking game but a limited knowledge of ground work. Frank Shamrock takes you simply through the eight positions of power, giving submission holds for each position allowing the ground game novice to get a well rounded and effective knowledge of simple techniques. Equally, if you're a ground game specialist looking for a bit of advice on stand-up, some sound advice is given too. All the tutorial sections have easy to follow instructions with excellent step by step pictorial guides.

Whilst this book doesn't go into a massive amount of detail, it really does give you all the basic information required to get you started. If you're a complete novice, don't forget that there is no substitute for good instruction so get out there and find an established school with experienced coaches and use the book to help expand your knowledge then hit the roads to increase your fitness. Hard work then more hard work is the only way to success.

I highly reccommend this great book.
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Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts: The Stand Up Game
 
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Greg Jackson is the most accomplished and celebrated mixed martial arts coach in the world. In Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts, he brings you into his stable of fighters, which includes UFC Welterweight Champion Georges "Rush" St. Pierre, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans, UFC Light Heavyweight contender Keith Jardine, and UFC Middleweight contender Nate Marquardt. For the first time, he unveils his methods for developing fight strategies, detailing everything you must accomplish from the moment you sign the contract up to the time you step foot into the octagon. Next, he shares his arsenal of stand-up striking techniques that allow his fighters to dominate the world of mixed martial arts. He shares dozens of striking combinations, counterstriking combinations, takedowns, and throws. Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts also includes something no other technique book offers—a chapter on street fighting that was developed over several years of trial and error. If your goal is to rise to the top of the MMA mountain, Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts is a mandatory tool because it's written by a trainer who's taken several fighters there.

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Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History
 
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If you know anything at all about mixed martial arts and the UFC, then you know the name Matt Hughes. With devastating slams and ground-and-pound -- and nine championship belts to his credit -- Matt is the most dominant fighter in UFC history.

Matt was raised with his twin brother on a family farm in small-town Hillsboro, Illinois. Behind the postcard-perfect fields of corn, beans, and wheat stood a home consumed by bankruptcy, tension, and interpersonal struggles, but Matt reacted to hard times by playing hard and working even harder.

In high school and college Matt was an unstoppable wrestler, and he ended up a two-time Division I All-American. Whereas every year's top eight graduating college football players become instant millionaires, Matt got to stay on as assistant wrestling coach, doing electrical work on the side for fourteen dollars an hour. All of that changed the day he met legendary MMA manager Monte Cox, as well as Pat Miletich, a trainer who also happened to be the welterweight champion of the world.

Rising through the ranks of the independent fighting circuit and the UFC, Matt saw things that fans could only catch glimpses of -- until now. For the first time, a major UFC superstar has decided to answer all the questions the fans have about him, the organization, and the sport. You'll learn which fighter almost sent Matt packing from mixed martial arts; why he refused to speak to his role model, Randy Couture; and what his relationship with UFC president Dana White is like. He reveals in which match he found himself praying to God for help, why he originally refused a shot at the world title, and what it's like training at the Miletich Fighting Camp. Matt describes working on TV's The Ultimate Fighter, what really happened to Tito Ortiz during the legendary brawl on the streets of London, just how personal his rivalry with Frank Trigg became, and what it was like to go up against the mythical Royce Gracie -- and destroy him.

Matt discloses his most private thoughts and feelings during both his epic victories and his crushing losses. But when the gloves come off, there's Matt Hughes the man. He talks with unflinching honesty about his early hell-raising and his near-death experience, the moment he let God into his heart, falling in love with his wife, the birth of his daughter, and all the important events of his life -- and he shares personal photographs never before seen by the public.

A Christian, a family man, and a fighter, Matt Hughes could only have been made in America.

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Choke Em Out- 2 Disc set
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The guillotine choke is one of many submission holds in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Chances are, you have seen this countless times during MMA events.

But why do you see it often? The answer is very simple. The opponent gets into the right position that the more skills fighter sees and then executes it properly. This happens every time when that person puts their head outside of the opponents’ body so don’t you think this is worth learning?

There are two types of guillotine choke. There is the blood choke and the air choke. If you apply pressure using your forearm against your opponentís windpipe, then you achieve an air choke. If this is placed on the arteries of the neck, then you have a blood choke. In addition to the two types of chokes, you should also know that this can be done while you are standing or on the ground. Most fighters do it while they are standing because of better leverage in this position. If you are on the ground, you have to get your opponent first into a full guard position.

You know what it is…now it is time to learn how to choke.

Let’s make it simple by starting in a standing position and perform the regular guillotine choke. You have to first pull your opponent’s head down by placing your hand on his neck or by pulling down on his GI so he is facing the ground. Now put your arm around his neck into a position similar to a headlock. Slide your forearm down under his chin and around his neck making sure that the blade of your forearm is against his neck.

Then grasp the wrist of your choking arm with your free hand. Keep this grip on his neck tightly so that his head is wedged under your arm. Place one leg slightly forward, stand up straight and twist your hips in the direction of your forward leg whichever you are using to execute this choke.  A more complicated version is the spine locking guillotine choke. Here, you start by bringing your opponent’s head down and wrap your arms around his head which is similar to the regular guillotine choke.

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Using your forearm, turn your opponent’s head towards the hand of your choking arm so can put pressure on his spine. Put your free hand on your opponent’s back on the same side of his head as your free hand. Then grasp the wrist of your planted hand with the hand of your choking arm and lean back.

If executed properly, your opponent has no choice but to surrender. If they don’t, they will become unconscious in the next few seconds. This move is not only used in competition but also in the street so you just have to practice how to do it. Aside from the guillotine choke, there are other moves in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu you can learn and apply in and outside the ring.

After all, this can only be used when you are in front of the opponent. There are ways to subdue them when you are able to go behind them or on their side. You just have to listen to your instructor and watch how these are done so you can spar with someone in order to do it correctly.

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