In The Ultimate Mixed Martial Artist, ten of the world's most accomplished MMA combatants combine forces to elevate your fighting skills to the next level. Through detailed narrative and more than 1500 step-by-step color photos, the best of the best in the fight game teach you how to overwhelm your opponent with advanced striking combinations, launch stealthy counterattacking combinations, execute technical throws and takedowns, pummel your opponent from every clinch position, and use various cage tactics to wreck your opponent's day. If you desire fighting techniques and strategies that have been proven to work time and again at the highest level of MMA competition, this book is for you. In The Ultimate Mixed Martial Artist, the legends of the sport unveil the secrets that allowed them to climb to the top of the MMA mountain.
Featured Fighters:
Anderson Silva
Randy Couture
Forrest Griffin
Shawn Thompkins
Greg Jackson
Jon Fitch
Karo Parisyan
Dave Camarillo
Anuwat Kaewsamrit
Shawn Yarborough
Matt Lindland
Matt "The Law" Lindland- All-American wrestler and Olympic silver medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling- is one of the most accomplished and celebrated wrestlers competing in mixed martial arts today. In Dirty Boxing he unveils for the first time the unorthodox and highly effective system of fighting that carried him to the top of the mixed martial arts mountain. He provides the tools needed to be proficient in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, and then demonstrates how to tailor these techniques to overwhelm your opponent in MMA competition. The book covers fundamental control positions, such as the two-one-one, underhook, and head control, as well as numerous bone-crushing attacks from each position. Lindland details your opponents' most common defenses to your attacks and then teaches you how to capitalize on these reactions by launching secondary attacks.He teaches you how to fend off double and single leg take-downs. He instructs you how to strike your way into the clinch and, once there, he schools you on dirty boxing, striking from close range, and a plethora of throws and takedowns. Whether you are new to the sport of mixed martial arts, a wrestler looking to compete in the cage, or an experienced MMA fighter looking to sharpen your game, this book is for you. Dirty Boxing is a quintessential training manual for MMA fighters of all disciplines.
BJ Penn (BJ-J)
BJ Penn-UFC World Champion, Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, and best-selling author of Mixed Martial Arts: The Book of Knowledge- sheds new light on the sport of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu with this unprecedented examination of the closed guard. Through step-by-step color photographs and descriptive narrative, Penn shares his elaborate system for gaining control of your opponent's body while fighting off your back, and then unleashes more than eighty fight-ending submissions. He divulges his most vicious strangleholds, including collar chokes, arm chokes, and triangle chokes. He demonstrates how to apply bone-breaking pressure to your opponent's wrist, elbow, and shoulder using his most ruthless straight arm bars, inverted arm bars, kimura locks, americana locks, and omoplata locks. And to ensure your offense never gets shut down, Penn unveils your opponent's most common submission defenses, and then teaches you how to capitalize on that defense by transitioning into submissions and a host of sweeps. Detailing dozens of ways to chain your attacks together to form fluid combinations, this book leaves no stone unturned. Whether you are new to the grappling arts or an experienced practitioner, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Closed Guard will take your game to the next level.
Greg Jackson
Greg Jackson is the most accomplished and celebrated mixed martial arts coach in the world. In Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts, he brings you into his stable of fighters, which includes UFC Welterweight Champion Georges "Rush" St. Pierre, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans, UFC Light Heavy weight contender Keith Jardine, and UFC Middleweight contender Nate Marquardt. For the first time, he unveils his methods for developing fight strategies, detailing everything you must accomplish from the time you sign the contract up to the moment you step foot into the cage. He unleashes for the first time his arsenal of stand-up striking techniques that have allowed his fighters to dominate the world of mixed martial arts. He divulges dozens of striking combinations, counterstriking combinations, takedowns, and throws. He also includes his street fighting system, which was developed over several years of trial and error. If your goal is to rise to the top of the MMA mountain, Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts is a mandatory tool.
