No Holds Barred Fighting: The Kicking Bible: Strikes for MMA and the Street | Date: 28 April 2011, 04:59
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No Holds Barred Fighting: The Kicking Bible: Strikes for MMA and the Street (No Holds Barred Fighting series)
By Mark Hatmaker
* Publisher: Tracks Publishing
* Number Of Pages: 192
* Publication Date: 2008-10-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1884654312
* ISBN-13 / EAN:
Product Description:
One of the most feared and useful weapons in mixed martial arts (MMA) competition is dissected and discussed in this fully-illustrated guide to both perfecting and defending against the low kick. Many competitors view this technique as a single tool in their arsenal, limiting themselves when they could be taking this low-line method of attack and modifying it to fit far more kicking situations than those commonly used. This volume demonstrates how to expand the low-kicking arsenal, showing how a simple alteration in leg targeting can strongly challenge an opponent's defense, and how to hone low-line kicking power and speed so that rapid-fire low-line kicking becomes a powerful advantage. These techniques are prime for MMA competitors and anyone who wants to improve both their self-defense and competition skills with the best empirical information available.
Summary: The Book Actually Delivers What It Stipulates
Rating: 5
Simply put, this book intelligently delivers every insightful goal that the author stipulates he wants to accomplish with this manual: primarily kicks which are short, choppy, solid, painful and deceptive, highly successful, low-line kicks, sans the knees, for CQB and MMA.
What is emphasized in the title: KICKING BIBLE, may mislead, but the finer print offers clarity for those who read and absorb the whole title.
The format of his book is well organized in a brief explanation providing the over all goal of the book and why the goals are as presented; the actual striking modalities presented and then the defensive nature of counter all kick, not just low-line attacks.
Within the pages, he forewarns the audience that this is not a book about fancy high kicks, and makes no bones about his personal biases for pragmatic, low-line kicking attacks as a means for punishing and damaging the adversary, designed to set up more devastating hand techniques, submissions and ground controls.
Mark Hatmaker discusses the weakness of being a biped and the precariousness of balance when kicking, while offering superb concepts for establishing and maintaining a solid, aggressive stance facilitating agile and hostile footwork for the aforementioned environments.
Throughout the book, he stresses maneuvers and combinations of both kicking and kicking integrated with hand techniques which adhere to the practicality of those methods which will provide the highest percentage of success within MMA competitions and within personal protection. His insights as to how the kick is merely a small but important part of a larger whole, maintain the book's realistic approach to kicking for MMA and CQB.
The photos used to illustrate stance, footwork, kicking techniques and counters to kicking are more than adequate to provide the reader with a comprehensive understanding to the written materials.
The manual truly offers the reader the opportunity to develop a realistic perspective of how best to utilize the kicking tool as a powerful weapon within mixed martial arts and in the realm of personal protection, along with providing the necessary counter information needed to assist in negating the kicking tool as an offensive weapon.
The book delivers, and the reviewer highly recommends it for assisting one in understanding the nature of devastating, pragmatic kicking along the low-lines and their essential counter maneuvers.
Rev. Arthur Bodhi Chenevey, RM, DD
Summary: Good basic low kicks book for beginners
Rating: 4
First than nothing, if you expect high kicks, spinning kicks, ax kicks, etc. You better look in another place. But if you are a boxer, wrestler, or a beginner this is the book for you. This book is part of Mark Hatmaker's NHB series. For advanced students could be a stand along book; but for beginners this book is part of the Mark Hatmaker's NHB/MMA series. The author explains in the beginning that there is a lot of different kicks; this book take in consideration that you could be a beginner or don't have years of training in kicks. Some people will disagree with the context of Bible and I will concur with them. Nevertheless is a very informative book. If you want to learn the basic strikes for MMA or simple self defense this is the book for you. If you already know kick boxing, you probably don't need this book. If you are one of the persons mentioned above I will recommend this book. The advices and illustrations will give you a good tool for learning.
Summary: Decent book on basic kicks
Rating: 3
This is the first time I've given a Hatmaker text anything below four stars. Though the material is still good, it doesn't quite hold up to his other material.
In the intro, Mark explains his bias when it comes to kicks. Low kicks are less risky and more high-percentage; also, he views kicks as punishment, not finishers. More of a means to an end. Here he also makes his case for the use of rounds over repetitions, and the use of controlled techniques on a "live" target as opposed to equipment work.
The first two chapters, on stance and movement, are valuable, but seem out of place. If you don't already know these basics, you shouldn't be reading a book on kicking only. They're also a bit redundant, having been featured in at least three of his earlier works.
Next he starts reviewing the offensive arsenal, starting with "outside" (non-clinched) kicks. The majority of these kicks are a variation of the round kick, and some space is wasted in this section by showing outside and inside variations of many of the kicks, alternately attacking the thigh and ankle. While it's good that the author draws attention to the ankle as a potential target, a two-page or so section on what parts of the body to target would have saved a lot of space and been more efficient. This section also includes a number of "point" kicks, done with the toes or ball of the foot, which Hatmaker acknowledges are probbly best done with shoes. Ring-legal kicks are mixed in with pure self-defense (groin) kicks; a section on pure self-defense techniques, as was done in "Savage Strikes", would have been more appropriate.
The next chapter is on kicks from the clinch, and includes a surprising variety. A short and out-of-place chapter on cut kicks (kicking the support leg during an opponent's kick attack) is inserted between this chapter and one on rear-clinch kicks, or kicks to perform while one is clinched from behind. He advises, rightly so, that one should never compromise one's base when throwing a rear clinched kick. While he's seen controling is opponent's arms in the photos, he never explains to do that, though.
There are two chapters on kicking combinations, one on kicking only and one on the use of kicks with punches. The first is text-only and is rather unimaginative. The second is very basic, and offers only a template. It has some interesting ideas but seems a bit brief.
The final chapter in the offensive section is the "Ax Murderer Series", designed around kicking a downed opponent. Considering the legal consequences of such action, this material isn't recommened for general street defense, something Hatmaker has neglected to mention here. As well, most MMA organizations don't allow this sort of striking, making this chapter as a whole a bit useless. Hatmaker starts by demonstrating how to kick an opponent on his hands and knees, including some stomping attacks to the hands and achilles tendons which might have been good targets of opportunity back in the Pride FC days. Then he moves on to attacking an opponent who is on his back, in "open guard". Finally he closes out with the "sprawl and kic
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