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Summary: Good for starters
Review: Excellent book for a first step into submission fighting. This book covers all of the basics a beginner will need to get started. While most people want to get straight to dropping the choke on an opponent, this book lays the groundwork for getting in shape for future chessmatch matches with better skilled opponents. While the submissions shown tend to be simple moves, sometimes simple is best. The only thing missing is the idea that with an experienced opponent you usually have to "set up" techninques using other feints to get the job done (ie. fake the guillitine choke to set up the arm bar). All in all, however, an excellent teaching tool.
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Summary: worths every penny
Review: excellent book! doesn't cost that much and gives you a great detail on submission wrestling.
recommended to every martial artists, especially those stand up fighters unfamiliar with grappling and submission.
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Summary: No Holds Barred Fighting
Review: GREAT BOOK! Worth the money. Very few books on the subject of Submission Wrestling have this degree of detailed analysis of the technigues. Supplementing my training with this book has helped me to gain higer levels of preformance. This guide stands strong by it's self, but can be used with Alan Ground's; The Gate and The Gracie's two Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu books for those who seek to cover all areas of groundfighting.
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Summary: A practical, realistic approach to submission wrestling
Review: I have been training in various Martial Arts (Combat Jujitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, American Wrestling, Boxing, and Arnis) for the past 15 years. I also serve as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps.In his book, Mark Hatmaker provides excellent instruction on submission wrestling. His approach is practical and progressive. He demonstrates effective techniques that work on the mat or in combat. I highly recommend this guide for anyone interested in the combat arts!
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Summary: Mark Hatmaker always hits the target.
Review: I haven't read this book yet, but I probably will because I know the quality of Hatmaker's work from his popular videos. Mark Hatmaker is articulate, knowledgeable, and wastes no time getting to the essentials of the topic at hand.
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Summary: $ for $ the best there is
Review: I look in the martial arts section every time I go into a book store and cruise amazon.com for new books all the time. I own about 20 martial arts books. This one is by far the best, dollar for dollar. The material is familiar. It is amature and professional wrestling american style. Amature wrestling books are hard to come by. The moves demonstrated in this book would teach most amature wrestlers the basics. The submission moves are integrated effectively. No eastern mysticism to be found. As an attorny I very much appriciate the disclaimer. Legal jargon is as absent as the eastern mysticism. Most books have a legal disclaimer that isn't worth the paper it is written on. There are no magic words. The authors get the point acrossed very simply that hurting your sparring partner is a bad thing and unproductive to both your training. They actually recommend that you train with your friends. I say it beats training with a stranger in a class with an instructor trying to instill that eastern mystique garbage.
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Summary: $ for $ the best there is
Review: I look in the martial arts section every time I go into a book store and cruise amazon.com for new books all the time. I own about 20 martial arts books. This one is by far the best, dollar for dollar. The material is familiar. It is amature and professional wrestling american style. Amature wrestling books are hard to come by. The moves demonstrated in this book would teach most amature wrestlers the basics. The submission moves are integrated effectively. No eastern mysticism to be found. As an attorny I very much appriciate the disclaimer. Legal jargon is as absent as the eastern mysticism. Most books have a legal disclaimer that isn't worth the paper it is written on. There are no magic words. The authors get the point acrossed very simply that hurting your sparring partner is a bad thing and unproductive to both your training. They actually recommend that you train with your friends. I say it beats training with a stranger in a class with an instructor trying to instill that eastern mystique garbage.
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Summary: Most Bang for the Buck
Review: Let's face it, most of the Ground Fighting books available are pretty expensive. If it has "Gracie" on the cover it'll cost you, so a book like this is very welcome! This is an excellent book on Ground Fighting. It manages to give good instruction with surprising detail. It's organized logically and goes from basics to takedowns to pins to submissions to escapes. It is a Submision Fighting text and has no self defense section per se. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos it covers plenty of material. Note: if you are a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu enthusiast the material here is familiar. If you train in a striking art or in some form of stand up jiu jitsu this is one of the best intro's you'll ever find to ground fighting. Also recommend Rigan Machados' book (costs a little bit more money and not much on takedowns) and Renzo Gracies' book (costs a lot more money, although it has excellent photos).
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Summary: No Holds Barred Fighting: The Ultimate Guide
Review: Mark Hatmaker for sure has a uniqie inside and experience when it comes to using grappling in a real fight or competition. The moves, strategies and training tips that I found in his books work and go well beyond traditional JuJitsu arsenal. If you are looking for an ultimate instruction guide look no further! Getting to know Mark's way of fighting helped me to become a better grappler.
Grigory Mihovich
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Summary: Great book on submission wrestling
Review: Mark Hatmaker has left a good impression on me with his (I think)first book. Though not realy NHB, as strikes aren't covered, this book had info on takedowns, possitions, reversals, escapes, submissions, drills... Although the book didn't have 'every single move in the world', what was presented would help anyone improve their game. It is as complete as a book of it's size can be on the subject it covers. It is well-written, logically presented, and has me eagerly anticipating the second book. If you are interrested in submission grappling at all, get this book; you will not be disappointed.
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