Shootfighting : The Ultimate Fighting System

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Summary: Not what it is advertised as
Review: Bart Vale was the "bad guy" in a lot of professional wrestling organizations in Japan. They sell the matches as real, but they are as real as Hulk Hogan and the NWO. They are called "stiff" or "shoot" matches. Vale can teach you to be a great "stiff" pro wrestler but as a martial artist his skills are questionable. A lot of these techniques only work on a non resisting opponent, others are brute strength. Best part of the book is the old pictures if you are into the Japan thing, but as an instructional book, get a wrestling book or Renzo Gracie's great book

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Summary: short but usefull
Review: Considering that there is very little on shootfighting in the way of books out there this was a good start.I'm sure they could have added a lot more material but maybe Mr.Vale has a contract to do a series of books.A short book doesn't always mean that it is a bad book (an example would be one of the greatest grappling books there is-"My study of Judo" by Gunji Koizumi.Short but comparable if not better than anything currently availabe.I'd say if you have a martial arts library,grab "Shootfighting".If you're looking for advanced techniques or enough to try to incorporate it into your fighting repretoire,you might want to wait and see if a second volume that is more advanced comes out.

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Summary: Shoot fighting is great.
Review: It's ture, shoot fighting is great. I've used it both in and out of the ring. This book has some good stuff. money