Synopsis
Shootfighting is a brutal hybrid fighting system that combines real wrestling moves with Eastern martial arts such as judo, karate and Muay Thai kickboxing. Bart Vale created the term Shootfighting to describe the sport because old-time wrestlers used the word 'shoot' to refer to the real thing -- no scripts, no fake holds, no mercy. Today, the International Shootfighting Association (ISFA) created by Vale, Masami Soranaka and Yoshiaki Fujiwara has affiliated gyms and martial arts schools around the world. In this book, Vale takes you through the history of the sport, the training methods that will get you in peak shape and the brutal kicking, punching, takedown and submission-hold techniques that will give you the winning edge in all aspects of unarmed combat.
