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Summary: A practical and realistic guide to self defense
Review: This is a FANTASTIC book. It combines very practical advice, like hitting first when the need arises and using your whole body when throwing a punch, with colorful stories from real boxers and streetfighters. The simple illustrations were also helpful. After I read Championship Streetfighting I was more prepared than I expected: a drunken lout tried to show me how tough he was, and I laid him out with two punches before he new what hit him. Kudos to Mr. Beaumont.
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Summary: great great book
Review: this is a very insightful practical no nonsense book. forget all the silly moves and jibberish of fancy martial arts.they dont work as well as the hardcore tough style you`ll learn in this book.it is the cream of the crop for learning to fight and get the job done against anyoned
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Summary: Unique, interesting, lots of valuable information
Review: This is probably the single most useful of many martial arts books I have. It's actually written by a street fighter unlike most other books. Although most of my books are practical, it's nice have one by an author with a lot of street experience. It covers some of the gruesome consequences a flawed punch can have like broken hands and the terrible damage that teeth can cause your hands. I never realized that a hard punch to the teeth can almost sever fingers. This book has a lot of practical knowledge that most others lack, because of their authors' lack of street experience.
DON'T THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE YOU MAY BE SMALL YOU CAN'T BE A DEVASTING FIGHTER AND KNOCK SOMEONE OUT.
That's something I really like because I am small, about the size of ferocious 135lb Roberto Duran. The book talks about the techniques and strategies of the greatest fighters of all time (like Duran)and of all shapes and sizes.
This shoudn't be your only fighting book though. The only complaint is the lack of pictures. "Fighting Fit: Boxing Workouts, Techniques and Sparring" by Doug Werner and Alan Lachica is a great complement to this one. It's loaded with pictures and where this book's and Beaumont's conflict just go with Beaumont, like his vertical jab. Bruce Lee's books are also great to integrate into these. I just ordered "Kill as Catch Can" as well.
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Summary: Realistic combat for the streets
Review: This is really the best book ever written about boxing for self-defense. Well organized and written in a literate and entertaining manner, it presents the boxing skills that work best in real combat and sensibly assesses the weaknesses of boxing and other forms of fighting. It also presents a fully articulated training program for the developing fighter. There's really nothing else like it -- and serious martial artists will assimilate its lessons so as to make their own styles that much more effective.
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Summary: "Read my mind!"
Review: When I first started reading CHAMPIONSHIP STREETFIGHTING all I could think was, "Man, Ned Beaumont read my mind!" Much of what is written in this book is exactly what I have been thinking. As a golden gloves boxer ,I can tell you Ned Beaumont is right on! I can also tell you, from first hand experience,boxers are some of the toughest and most realistic fighters in the world! Great book!
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Summary: Overhyped, padded compilation of other works
Review: Whoever says that the most controversial part is the chapter 'why boxing' and the rest does not include much hasn't read the book.I do not know much about karate and I am not going to comment on it, but really, this author gets a bit annoying when he persistently whines and moans about how martial arts is a load of ********. A reviewer before me mentioned that he bites at karate every paragraph, and it's not much of an exaggeration. He wastes pages in total on it. People get the point. I'd say about 90% of the book is made up of nonpracticle babble. He constanstly babbles about how this punch will kill any little punk that tries to mess with you. He keeps telling about past fights he has had(supposedly). There is a chapter dedicated to other books you can buy on boxing/fighting, which is his source material. His knowledge of the history of boxing may impress newcomers but it actually can be easily learnt by one of those 'moments in boxing' or 'famous fights and fighters' type books. It's quite basic, don't be fooled. The defense chapter is quite simply useless to any boxer, even a beginning boxer. Most of the book is actually based on other books on boxing, especially Jack Dempsey's book, "Championship Fighting". The good point of the book and the only thing not found in others is the rare punching info. However it is ALL copied from Dempsey's book which actually explains it FAR BETTER. The rest is copied from combat books. It's the most copied book alive. He actually has NO experience of doing anything himself. To make it a bit different from Dempsey's book he switches things around like changing the "power line"(what Dempsey called it) to the "line of power". The author acts like superman. He slags "punks" that think they are tough and try to mess with him. He tells about a boxer he "knew" who trained two teenagers who broke a cops ribcage. Another one he 'knew' had a deep ugly scar where he punched a guy in the teeth. He 'knows' many people who conveniently have experience in the teachings of the books he reads. He talks about opening up the "blood faucet" with a hard barehanded punch to the nose, in his 'experience' "which scares the **** out of most people that think they're tough". If you read it yourself you'll understand. In his 'experience' a broken collarbone ends a fight right there. He has experience in every unorthodox technique he teaches. The universal method of boxing is twisting the jab on impact. He uses the vertical fist, which is OK but he says stuff like 'that's why boxing today is crude and ineffective'. If he thinks this he should stop talking in awe of all the greats who DID use the horizontal fist(Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson etc.). He completely wipes away any other style of his and simply tells you "this is how boxers fight". The author says there's no substitute for training in a club. I think i could tell him the same thing. This author is a total disgrace to boxers. In reality, boxers are the nicest people you've ever met, because they don't need to prove anything unlike Beaumont. Obviously this guy has been beaten up too many times and needs a way to release all his childish anger without crying. If you read the book you'll understand but I recommend you don't. He's getting too many sales for this compilation of other people's work. For the punching info, and the punching info ALONE it's a good book. The 'jolt' and shovel hook are not taught in modern boxing gyms. But since it's only an extremely small portion of the book and is copied from Dempsey's book entirely it's not worth buying.
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Summary: Add Boxing to your Martial Art. Improve your Boxing.
Review: Yes this book is good. Yes this book is worth getting. Ned does not understand Asian Martial Arts but he understands boxing. There is a funny mistake when he uses E=mc2 (Einstien's formula for converting mater in into energy) to explain punching power - but then he was not that far wrong Newton's Force = Mass x Velocity2 was the right formula and his principle was correct (Increase your speed x 2 = Increase your punch power x 4). Principles of Boxing are well explained (Something that is hard to come by). Good Training routines are suggested. Very good section on combinations. Boxing is an extremely effective martial art - this book has greatly increased my understanding. I would give it five stars if Ned did not have such a chip on his shoulder.
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