Striking Instructionals - Taking Requests!
by Jack Slack on Feb 19, 2012 7:56 PM EST
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PrintHey folks, I'm beginning work on a pair of instructional books dedicated to striking - they will be in ebook format and contain photographs taken specifically for the ebooks, going into far greater detail than my breakdowns for HKL and on my blog. I will be selling them through my site and eventually through Amazon. Of course I'll try to keep the costs down - as a kid who spent every month's allowance on striking books and was routinely disappointed - I believe that knowledge shouldn't come at a premium.
The first will be a comprehensive guide to striking from angles because it's a topic that simply hasn't been explored in any depth even by the great boxing, kickboxing and MMA guides out there.
The second will be an homage to K. V. Gradapalov's "Tactics of the Foreign Masters". It will feature breakdowns of the key techniques and strategies of some of the biggest names in modern boxing, kickboxing and MMA. I will also be including my translation of the original Russian book which helped me so much, as an appendix.
The two things I would like to know are:
1) Is there any interest in these books?
2) For the second book - which fighters' striking are you especially interested in? I have lots of ideas but would really like to aim for the ones with the most interest.
As always, be honest, and now more than ever - be brutal =)
Jack
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I enjoy your work, and as someone who’s read countless shitty striking books It’d be nice to read something good.
I like Nick Diaz, BJ Penn, Frankie Edgar, JDS striking.
Book on angles would be neat. I never really understood them until I saw Don Familton’s stuff and then one book I can’t remember the name of. Obviously I prefer vids, but if you’re selling it for money I doubt you’d be able to include gifs/vids from fights.
Good luck with it.
I would definitely be interested in something like this.
One caveat (and I’m not sure if you would have control over this) is that I’d really love it to be readable on the iphone.
Anyway, I’d love to see a breakdown of JDS’ boxing. I haven’t seen it talked about much, but it is obviously very effective.
Thanks for the encouragement lads! Now be a bit more demanding ;)
I really want to know which strikers interest you.
Ones which will be included without question are:
-Badr Hari
-Alistair Overeem
-Giorgio Petrosyan
-Roy Jones Jr
-Anderson Silva
-Lyoto Machida
But the rest are entirely up to you. Try and think of some guys with out there games
-Andy Hug?
-Rambaa Somdet?
-Jerome Le Banner?
- Nate / Nick Diaz?
hell even Krazy Horse!
If there is someone who is good on the feet and you want to know how they do it, drop their name and I’ll put in the research!
Mirko Filipovic
Has had success across three combat sports with his skills, what is he doing right? Or any other athlete that has had success across multiple rule sets.
by WheelieMonkey on Feb 20, 2012 9:46 AM EST up reply actions
Old time boxers
Like Jack Johnson.
Also maybe Hoost, And some of the great Thai boxers like Samart or whoever.
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Should be easy enough
I wrote my dissertation on Jack Johnson – I’ve probably watched his fights more times than his own family!
Impressive!
I really look forward to it. Your stuff on old-school boxing has been really excellent thus far, and confirmed my suspicion that the style of boxing they used to use back in the day of bare-knuckles or small gloves is more applicable to MMA than modern boxing.
Keep up the great work!
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hm...doesnt 'strike' me as a badass.
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by gspmademegay on Feb 21, 2012 11:17 AM EST up reply actions
Where do you find fights...
of Jack Johnson? Google has failed me.
I got very interested in him and his fights after reading Unforgiveable Blackness, but couldn’t figure out where fight footage that old is archived.
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The only ones filmed were Ketchel, O'Brien, Burns, Jeffries and Flynn
Film was in it’s infancy and a massive syndicate of movie companies invested in making the films of the Jeffries fight, but when Johnson won most states banned fight film in one form or another.
The film of the Burns fight stops before he finishes Burns to save the white race’s face.
Should be able to find them on youtube. Unforgivable Blackness the film (also on youtube) has loads of fight footage. Dude was BRUTAL in the clinch, in an era where most people didn’t even know how to use the clinch.
Thanks.
I own the documentary, and have seen everything you mentioned. Wasn’t aware that those 5 fights are all there is though. Drat.
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+1 for old time boxers and Thai guys
can we please add Yodsanklai Fairtex, Anuwat Kaewsamrit, John Wayne Parr, Buakaw Por. Pramuk, Mike Zambidis, Orono Por Muang Ubon, and Melvin Manhoef to this list?
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by the jewish conquistador on Feb 21, 2012 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
Rob Kaman
Possibly the all-time greatest Dutch kickboxer (which, as Seanbaby so eloquently points out, is like being the greatest anything of anything of all time). Also would be cool to see more Thai fighters on there, maybe Buakaw or someone like that.
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by Kevin Jennison J. Zametov-St Pierre on Feb 21, 2012 12:12 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Personally I'd prefer MMA striking
But that’s just me. I’m fascinated by how things change when you’re allowed to do anything. Machida and Silva are definites. And yes, I would probably buy both. What kind of price are you looking at?
I'd try to keep it low enough to cover costs and time.
The more interest we get, the lower I can keep the prices!
Everybody deserves to know the theory behind this stuff. God knows how much money I’ve wasted on vague books over my lifetime!
As for MMA striking – I will be steering clear of anything that involves covering up using the gloves, favouring movement instead – so it should all be quite applicable.
hey jack!
excited to see youre doing this!
how about a dual article-i was thinking ‘masters of the eye poke/nut shot,’ featuring the likes of koscheck, shields, cerrone, bruce leroy…
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1. I would be very interested
2. Emmanuel Augustus… just kidding. I don’t think I have anything to add to the list already there.
Good luck!
El Santo inspired me to be a submission grappler.
...my knee jerks and kicks a strawman right in the junk. :(
by Enmascarado on Feb 20, 2012 11:36 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
2. Emmanuel Augustus… just kidding.
You weren’t kidding. That was great suggestion. He’s one of my favorite boxers. Defensive Grandmaster.
"I'm ready for fight. If I'm win, no win. I don't know. But, I'm ready for fight. This is my working[shrugs shoulders]" - Anderson Silva
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Definitely interested.
Andy Hug, JLB, Ramon Dekkers, Floyd Mayweather, Frankie Edgar, Ernesto Hoost, Martin Kampmann, Cro Cop, Buakaw, Andy Souwer, Juan Manuel Marquez, Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson, Marvin Hagler, Peter Aerts…
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 20, 2012 12:44 PM EST reply actions
Also Andre Ward and Masato.
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 20, 2012 12:51 PM EST up reply actions
I'll break down Andre in two words
He’s dirty! ;)
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by gspmademegay on Feb 20, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
I'd buy that for a dollar.
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by RolloTomasi on Feb 20, 2012 4:00 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
KALIB STARNES and the way of the invisible fist!!!!!!!!!
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The invisible fist..
and the fifteen foot arm. That’s why he spent so much time backpedaling from Nate Quarry, eh? Just trying to get enough space to finally throw that punch?
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by Unabomberman on Feb 21, 2012 12:09 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Interested but depends on the final price (i'm a stingy bastard)
Would love to read about BJ Penn and GSP’s striking games
Doesn't matter really..
I’m sure it’ll be rock solid. You should do one on how to strike your way out of a wet paper bag so I can get something directly applicable out of it.
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by Fistbeard on Feb 20, 2012 5:55 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
If its big enough, try to encompass all styles,
all ur stuff has been good krazy, mmashare forever!!!!
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Instructionals? How about “Kicking for dummies?”
In all seriousness though, I’d buy a book you wrote if you broke down how to throw a Question Mark Kick. Or Brazilian Kick if you’re (profanity redacted).
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Such a great kick to have.
Works damn good in kyokushin rules. Condit didn’t land them flush but threw two beautiful ones in the Diaz fight.
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by Sweet Scientist on Feb 21, 2012 5:27 PM EST up reply actions
1 inch punch
almost a parlor trick, really, but could make an enlightening contrast.
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by some schmuck in texas on Feb 21, 2012 2:46 PM EST reply actions
The funny thing about the 1- inch punch
is that it’s actually very, very easy. All you have to do is turn your fist outward, palm facing the sky, and then really turn over the punch and sit down on it hard. It doesn’t have to much impact, but the twisting motion of the fist acts like a drill and makes pushing the opponent back very simple.
There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?
by ElliotMatheny on Feb 21, 2012 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
as it was taught to me in taiji
it exploits not just the ‘sit down’ but also turning hips and throwing the shoulder forward. We did it as a palm strike starting with your palm down, so the ‘drill’ action wasn’t present in that version.
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by some schmuck in texas on Feb 21, 2012 3:36 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, that's what I meant by sitting down on the punch
Hip and shoulder rotation, knee bend- all part of sitting down on your punches.
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by ElliotMatheny on Feb 21, 2012 3:51 PM EST up reply actions
ok then
I’ve never boxed, so you’ll have to excuse my over-literal understanding of the term.
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by some schmuck in texas on Feb 21, 2012 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
Really interesting post
I would love to see a section on striking-oriented fighters that have reputations as brawlers. The guy that comes to mind is Scott Smith, because no where in MMA history is there a fighter that has brought me so much fulfillment of the sport in his performances. He deserves some kind of recognition as an MMA icon/great, despite the limits of his technical abilities/torso’s gluttony
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