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Wrestling for Fighting: The Sport of Mixed Martial Arts [Paperback]

Randy Couture , Erich Krauss
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing (30 Jun 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0977731537
  • ISBN-13: 978-0977731534
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 1.3 x 27.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 311,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Major Motion Picture Randy Couture goes Hollywood! In a coup for mixed martial arts, Hollywood will be filming a major motion picture based on this intense and exciting sport. The film is called REDBELT, and will be directed by David Mamet. Randy Couture, author of WRESTLING FOR FIGHTING, will appear in the film. --Variety, July 2007

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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after seeing this book on the shelf at a local store, i immediately thought to myself it was just another one of those books brought out by a fighter to explain mma to beginers and make some money along the way.

WRONG!!!!

after picking this book up and flicking through the pages, i became instantly transfixed on it. after around ten minutes of reading it, and caught myself doing some of the footwork and positoning that the book describes in the store!! it instantly made me want to buy it!!

after i got the book home, i got my friend over (another mma fan) and we proceded to try out most of the techniques in it. it was fantastic, very easy to read, with colour sections on freestyle, and greco-roman!!

i would reccomend this book to anyone, it is very interesting, with a lot of old school techniques for takedowns and holds mixed up with a lot of inventive thinking.

A great book from a great mma legend!!!

Buy this book, get a mate over and get practising!!!

you will not be dissapointed!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Expert Advice 7 Aug 2009
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This is a really excellent book by someone with a core background in the disciplines of freestyle and greco-roman. His ability to take this into the MMA field and combine striking is sheer mastery. The book captures the different schools and adaptation thereof for MMA. The gross motor skills of some of the wrestling techniques should also appeal to reality-based martial artists. He has so much to teach, I think this is a superb primer with intelligently written narrative.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A good book - but not the best. 15 April 2012
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Wrestling for Fighting is a decent instructional manual, its detailed, full of colour photography, covers the basics well and descriptive. It isnt however a perfect book as the other five star recommendations here would lead you to believe, nor is it the best instructional manual of its sort.

First of all the book as described primarily concentrates on wrestling techniques. There is a very small section on striking, cage control, ground and pound and submissions but I do mean *very* small and frankly these sections are almost an afterthought, are lost amongst the many wrestling techniques that fill the rest of the book and really would have been best saved for a further volume concentrating on them and left out of this book altogether.

As far as wrestling is concerned everything in this book is valid and useful but the main reason I dont agree with the '5 star' reviewers is simply because 'Wrestling for Fighting' is a poor relation when compared to Matt Lindlands 'Dirty Boxing' instructional manual. Coutures book is relatively slimline compared to Lindlands, not quite as detailed and no where near as diverse in the number and variety of techniques offered within its pages.

Coutures book is a good entry level book for wrestling-to-MMA techniques but Lindlands is probably the definitive Wrestling-to-MMA guide availible on the market today. Pretty much all of the wrestling techniques in Coutures book are covered by Lindlands but also so much more besides and for that reason alone I recommend that you put this book back on the shelf and spend your money on 'Dirty Boxing'.
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