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Bloody Elbow Book Review: Matt Lindland's Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts
Matt Lindland's Dirty Boxing for Mixed Martial Arts is surprisingly good.I didn't expect as much as I do from some Victory Belt manuals perhaps because I've got a bias against wrestling, perhaps becau...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: Catch Wrestling by Mark Hewitt
Mark Hewitt's Catch Wrestling: A Wild and Wooly Look at the Early Days of Pro Wrestling in America is a fun and informative read for any MMA fan who's interested in learning more about the roots of th...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: B.J. Penn's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Closed Guard
It's been a while since we had a new Victory Belt publication to review but just in time for UFC 101, here comes B.J. Penn's Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: The Closed Guard. Given all the controversy B.J. Penn...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: Frank Shamrock's Mixed Martial Arts for Dummies
It's been a long time since Victory Belt put out a new training manual and it's a couple more weeks before I get my copies of their next tomes, I thought I'd do a review of Frank Shamrock's Mixed Ma...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: A Fighter's Heart by Sam Sheridan
Sam Sheridan's A Fighter's Heart wasn't a book I had planned on reading, but a good friend passed on his copy at Christmas. Here's the Amazon blurb: Sheridan joined the merchant marines after high ...
Bloody Elbow Book Review -- Total MMA: Inside Ultimate Fighting
I just tore through "Total MMA: Inside Ultimate Fighting" Jonathan Snowden's excellent history of MMA. Its a hefty tome at almost 400 pages -- with 32 pages of color photos and 11 pages of notes(!) bu...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira's Mastering Mixed Martial Arts: The Guard
It's getting kind of repetitious telling you guys about how good Victory Belt's MMA instructional books are. But I sure enjoy reading them so, you'll just have to deal. The latest, AAntonio Rodrigo ...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: Jiu-Jitsu University by Saulo Ribeiro
Back in the day I used to peruse quite a few manuals of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. This was when Royce Gracie was blowing everyone's mind and I was trying to get a handle on technical lingo like "triang...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: Anderson Silva MMA Instruction Manual STRIKING
So I was very excited to receive the latest Victory Belt publication in the mail: Anderson Silva's MMA Instruction Manual STRIKING. I'm a huge fan of this series. Co-authors Erich Krauss and Gle...
Bloody Elbow Book Review: Karo Parisyan Judo for Mixed Martial Arts
Another fine production from the Victory Belt crew. Karo Parisyan's Judo for Mixed Martial Arts (with Erich Krauss and Glen Cordoza) is quite possibly the one with the most novel take on mma...
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