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Designed to be user-friendly and clear, this is a comprehensive manual on kick boxing. It seeks to explain everything a kick boxer needs to know to develop kick boxing skills for combat.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book on the strength of the promise on the cover that "this book explains how to use the techniques of the ring when the ropes and referee have been removed" - and it does!
This book shows kickboxers how to use their skills to get out of tough real-life situations (i.e. pub fights, if someone gets into your car, if someone has a weapon, if you are knocked to the floor, escaping holds, gang attacks and more)
The book is written by highly-graded techers from multiple martial-arts disciplines, and includes lots of photos and illustrations to show you exactly what the techniques require. There are also basic techniques for anyone new to kickboxing, and training/conditioning exercises.
The only reason that the book doesn't get 5 stars, is that at 178 pages (with fairly large text and lots of illustrations) I wonder how many other useful tips could have been included!
If you enjoy your martial arts training, but wonder how useful your skills might be in the "real-world" and not just against another martial arts student, this book is great. It gives you some great ideas for implementation of kickboxing techniques in street-fighting.
This book shows kickboxers how to use their skills to get out of tough real-life situations (i.e. pub fights, if someone gets into your car, if someone has a weapon, if you are knocked to the floor, escaping holds, gang attacks and more)
The book is written by highly-graded techers from multiple martial-arts disciplines, and includes lots of photos and illustrations to show you exactly what the techniques require. There are also basic techniques for anyone new to kickboxing, and training/conditioning exercises.
The only reason that the book doesn't get 5 stars, is that at 178 pages (with fairly large text and lots of illustrations) I wonder how many other useful tips could have been included!
If you enjoy your martial arts training, but wonder how useful your skills might be in the "real-world" and not just against another martial arts student, this book is great. It gives you some great ideas for implementation of kickboxing techniques in street-fighting.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very practical and no nonsense book. Pat O'Keeffe writes without ego or the usual "self-defence" histrionics and keeps to straight forward facts and realism of transferable skills and their limits.
Excellent book!
Excellent book!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
ONE OF THE BEST!
8 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
O'Keeffe knows what he is talking about, no matter it's the street or the ring. The techniques are very practical and it cna give a kick boxing/Mugay Thai fighter a all rounded self defense manual. It also covers awareness, conditioning, strength training, mindsets, defend against multiple attackers, weapon defense (stay out of the knife stuff, most of them are not practical for the average guy, but it did address how dangerous the knife is. Also covers drills, training methods, escaping holds, pre emtive strikes, situational defense and one of the best thing about this book is that he does not covers only techniques, it talks about what do you need to look and pay attention to in a certain situation, the dangers of the situation, and lots of advices. Some of the bad advice is that putting your back against the wall in a multiple assilant situation will more likely get you killed. But use your own judegement, test teh technique under real pressure, have your partner really trys to make your technique fail! This book starts with a foreword by self protection pioneer Geofff Thompson and threat awareness, pre emtive strikes, basic strikes. It ends with teaching targeting, vital points, and a lsit of recommandation. Overall this is a great book and should be in any serious self defense practioner's libary.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
A fantastic book on using kick boxing techniques for practical street combat.
28 Jun 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is my personal favorite kick boxing book of the three written by Pat O'Keeffe. Since my primary interest today is practical combatives rather than tournament martial arts, I found this book to be very interesting and informative. The main focus of this volume is how to use the techniques of kick boxing for practical street combat scenarios. The author emphasizes that students should read his first book on kick boxing before trying to master the material in this text. I agree, but if you have a karate or combatives back ground you will still benefit greatly from reading this text.
There are fourteen detailed chapters in this volume. The material includes the importance of awareness, targets and techniques, the pre-emptive strike, breaking holds, one-to-one unarmed, blunt instrument attacks, knife attacks, gang attacks, seated defense, ground defense, and numerous other informative chapters.
Like his other kick boxing texts, this one is full of clear black and white photographs showing each technique. The focus of this fantastic book is the use of kicking boxing techniques as a superb method of street combat self-defense.
In conclusion, this is a book for martial artists and anyone else who is seeking a practical and highly effective system of street combat and self-defense.
Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Pro-Systems Combatives Vol. 1, 2 isbn: 978-0-9815405-1-1 & 978-0-9815405-0-4)
There are fourteen detailed chapters in this volume. The material includes the importance of awareness, targets and techniques, the pre-emptive strike, breaking holds, one-to-one unarmed, blunt instrument attacks, knife attacks, gang attacks, seated defense, ground defense, and numerous other informative chapters.
Like his other kick boxing texts, this one is full of clear black and white photographs showing each technique. The focus of this fantastic book is the use of kicking boxing techniques as a superb method of street combat self-defense.
In conclusion, this is a book for martial artists and anyone else who is seeking a practical and highly effective system of street combat and self-defense.
Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Pro-Systems Combatives Vol. 1, 2 isbn: 978-0-9815405-1-1 & 978-0-9815405-0-4)
Realistic Self-Defense +++
14 Jan 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
"Combat Kick Boxing" is a very coherent self-defense manual on how to use special methods based on various kickboxing methods -- such as particular practical methods adapted from Western Kickboxing, Muy Thai and Savate. Pat O'Keeffe presents some great knee and elbow hard-hits adapted from Muy Thai -- that are well chosen to fit-in with the opponent's actual attack -- rather than just semi-randomly shot-out at the risk of not fiting-in -- therefore exposing one to the attacker due to knees and elbows being easier to read by the attacker than kicks or fists. This whole manual has great practical advice in context of self-defense usage -- such as encounter area awareness and repeating blows as necessary to disable attackers -- BUT getting away as soon as practical for both survival and legal reasons. Getting away as soon as possible usually means avoiding or breaking any attempted holds of attackers and NOT going into ground grappling with an attacker as there may be armed allies nearby as Pat O'Keeffe remarks upon a number of times.
Pat O'Keeffe does not mention Savate by name -- but presents some of its methods such as covert and overt On-Guards and sliding kicks, that travel as long as possible near the ground [for stealthy on-balance speed], before whipping-up into a well-chosen target -- and kicks that are whipped-up just as ones rear leg is grouped with the lead kicking leg [for stealthy on-balance power]. In particular, there are the lead leg front and side kicks on pages 44 and 49 -- that have defensive stop-hit and attacking hard-hit variants -- using immediate lifting for the stop-hits or hard-hit slide-ups ["group" in Savate]. The commmentary concerning these particular kicks about their further usage in context is great -- the front kick acting as a combination lead ["chain" in Savate] -- and the side kick usage for weapons-counters [allowing one to turn profie away from the weapon while countering with a hard-hit to lead into a hold or throw disarm]. Such holds and throws are adapted from classical Judo [even by name] -- as the author also has a Judo background +++
Pat O'Keeffe does not mention Savate by name -- but presents some of its methods such as covert and overt On-Guards and sliding kicks, that travel as long as possible near the ground [for stealthy on-balance speed], before whipping-up into a well-chosen target -- and kicks that are whipped-up just as ones rear leg is grouped with the lead kicking leg [for stealthy on-balance power]. In particular, there are the lead leg front and side kicks on pages 44 and 49 -- that have defensive stop-hit and attacking hard-hit variants -- using immediate lifting for the stop-hits or hard-hit slide-ups ["group" in Savate]. The commmentary concerning these particular kicks about their further usage in context is great -- the front kick acting as a combination lead ["chain" in Savate] -- and the side kick usage for weapons-counters [allowing one to turn profie away from the weapon while countering with a hard-hit to lead into a hold or throw disarm]. Such holds and throws are adapted from classical Judo [even by name] -- as the author also has a Judo background +++
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