No Holds Barred Fighting: The Book of Essential Submissions: 101 Tap Outs! | Date: 28 April 2011, 04:58
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No Holds Barred Fighting: The Book of Essential Submissions: 101 Tap Outs! (No Holds Barred Fighting series)
By Mark Hatmaker
* Publisher: Tracks Publishing
* Number Of Pages: 192
* Publication Date: 2009-07-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1884654339
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781884654336
Product Description:
Chock-full of go-to finishing holds and tap-outs, this action-filled guide illustrates how to skillfully perform these essential fighting moves. More than 100 high-percentage submissions are detailed using sequenced action photographs to help strengthen the wrestling vocabulary of Mixed Martial Arts athletes. Whether used during competition or on the street, these submissions will allow both novice and seasoned no-holds-barred fighters to hold their own.
Summary: Good continuation in the NHB series
Rating: 4
As an earlier reviewer noted, I also received the 176 pages copy and I've realized that the one sold in Amazon is suposed to be 192 pages long.
I don't know what's happening, if there have been different prints or what, but I see each book is smaller than the one preceding it. The first books in the NHB series were about 220 pages long (optimum size, in my opinion).
Also the cover and the full title are different. The 176 page copy doesn't include that "101 tap outs!" remark.
Does anybody know why there are these differences? Will we be missing any (important) information in the 176 page book?
Besides that, I enjoy a lot all of Mark Hatmaker's books and I've found this one useful for our training as always with the material of this NHB series.
However, suggested by its title, I expected lots of grappling submissions in this latest book and didn't find so many in it in favor of too many statistics and striking combinations (the fact is I didn't expect any striking at all).
Also, despite the very useful information in his books, I still have to think Mark's titles are too aggresive from a marketing point of view, as I don't see "bibles" or "ultimate guides" in any of them.
For this one a better descriptive title would have been "MMA finishes. What winners do in MMA/NHB competition".
Regards
Summary: Good Science, Simplified!
Rating: 5
Mark Hatmaker collected the empirical evidence from a total of 640 fights "culled" from 40 current Ultimate Fighting Championship events and 40 current Pride Fighting Championship events. Breaking down the details of each fight victory, Hatmaker draws conclusions based upon the evidence formulated from these events. This is the foundation of this book's existence. Essentially, the book is an objective assessment of the reality of fighting needs, leading an athlete to victory within an UFC level competition.
While not a classic scientific textbook, overloaded with typical, over-the-top jargon, the book does explicate the demands of a top tier mixed martial arts match via an objective, scientific approach. Hatmaker breaks down the measurable data collected from these 640 fights, organizing the techniques in their order of success (a functional hierarchy)--along with their necessary operational supports within these events, and then proceeds to accurately demonstrate simple, appropriate instruction for understanding and comprehending these useful techniques in real time.
The book follows a format indicative of his previous works where photographs demonstrate the essence of the movement with an accompanying text to further explain proper execution of said movements. It's concise and to the point--nothing extraneous or filler added.
Hatmaker labels the support hierarchy of need as The Bellagio Hypothesis Continuum. This continuum helps one "focus on the highest percentage returns on investment from maximum to least." The continuum, if followed, assists the athlete in allocating training timing much more effectively and efficiently.
The technical applications Hatmaker addresses are the most successful physical actions gleaned from these 640 fights. The techniques are arranged in a hierarchy of most used to least applied; the most successful being: striking techniques, ground and pound methods, arm bar techniques, naked strangles, guillotine attacks, triangle choke, shoulder choke and arm triangle and heel hooks.
As we can assess, this book is NOT about one man's subjective opinion of what is technically important for success within MMA events.
The 176 page manual (my reviewer's copy), owning 15 chapters, provides some rather conclusive data about just what are the most effective techniques used in upper level mixed martial arts competitions, how to go about utilizing these applications, and how best to organize training time through the "hierarchy of utility" in order to improve successful outcomes in such events.
The book was a very interesting read, and the empirical evidence it provides can be useful for preparing one's overall training paradigm, when success in a UFC style MMA event is desirable.
Rev. A. Bodhi Chenevey, RM, DD
Hikaze Learning Corner
Summary: This Has To Be My Favorite Hatmaker Book So Far!
Rating: 5
I have to admit that I didn't realize that this particular book was coming out this month when I happened to be browsing the martial arts section at one of our local big-chain bookstores and stumbled across this newest edition in the NHB series of books by Mark Hatmaker, and let me tell you that I was really glad that I did.
In my humble opinion, this book was for me the best book that I have read so far in Mark's NHB series and I thoroughly enjoyed pretty much the entire book. My only complaint with this book and all of Mark's books in general is the small photographs in the book. I really wish either the author or the publisher would add a few more pages to each book and make the photographs a bit bigger. But since that is my only real complaint with this book, I suggest you take it with a grain of salt and don't let that deter you in any way from purchasing this excellent book.
Of particular note, I really enjoyed the analysis of over 600 MMA fights and the breakdown of what worked and didn't work in those 600+ matches. Included in this analysis was a real gem with the statement that the top three things one needs in order to be successful in the MMA arena, which in my opinion translates over very well to other combative activities including self-defense, are as follows and in order from most important being at number one and progressing from there.
1. CONDITIONING
2. POSITIONING
3. STRIKING
Personally, I would put attitude at number one, but since Mark was primarily talking about physical abilities, he is right on the money with his list. Now I am not going to go into a great deal of explanation on the list, heck, I'm not even going to explain anything at all, except to highly recommend that you pick up this book and add it to your own personal library.
Although I really did like the discovery that Mark made concerning MMA competition and grappling competition. I think that what he found out may come as quite a surprise to a lot of people. According to the author, it did to him and made him not only rethink, but also take a different look at the huge differences between the two.
Here are a few other books in the series that are well worth your time and money.
No Second Chance: A Reality-Based Guide to Self-Defense
No Holds Barred Fighting: The Book of Essential Submissions: 101 Tap Outs!
No Holds Barred Fighting: Savage Strikes: The Complete Guide to Real World Striking for NHB Competition and Street Defense
No Holds Barred Fighting: Takedowns: Throws, Trips, Drops and Slams for NHB Competition and Street Defense
Shawn Kovacich
Martial Artist/Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series.
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