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A book on fighting that takes the intermediate martial arts student through the fundamentals of combat, with sections on preparation (footwork, stance, range and measure, guards) and punching and kicking attacks and defences, including elbows, knees, throws and training combinations and workouts to drill all these.
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I have written this book to give beginners and intermediate students a guide to learning and training martial arts that isn’t limited to the techniques being taught; it also gives an idea of how the whole thing works. When I sat down to write it, I set out to help students along the way by providing an understanding of how principles and other tenets could inform and improve the learning and training process. I wanted to show not only what techniques to use but, more importantly, why, when and how to use them. This was the book that I needed when I was learning how to fight. A secondary aim was to write a book that the advanced student could dip into occasionally. In the early part of my martial arts study I bought books by Oyama and Nakayama on Karate. These were great books but didn’t entirely fit the style of fighting I was doing or answer the sorts of questions that I had. However, the completeness of these books has never left me and I have sought to emulate that here, as well as provide a source-book to satisfy students’ questions. It would have been easy to write a book that impressed my peers or that showed lots of fancy techniques that didn’t fit together in a logical order. Teaching on a nightly basis and doing seminars around the world has shown me people’s training needs, and thus where the focus of this book should be. This book is simply about learning how to fight in a modern and functional fashion. It hasn’t been my intention to cover the techniques developed by Lee and his friend and training partner Dan Inosanto during the Sixties and Seventies, A book showing this could, to an extent, be tethered to the past and that wasn’t what I wanted. Like Lee, I have used a conceptual approach and I have taken many of Lee’s thoughts on the nature of combat to serve, in his own words, as a finger-pointing. There is very little esoteric terminology in the book and what there is I’ve explained in a glossary. The aim is to make it clear and simple and help you on your way to being an effective martial artist. Lee’s focus was on the functionality of the technique or training method and that is my focus within this book. It is a study of fighting: only fighting. It uses some of Lee’s techniques as a base and adds what is functional and desirable from modern methods and my own experience to show a way that is relevant to modern martial artists.
