Mark Hatmaker

It's all inside-ring generalship, offensive and defensive ring movements, feints, draws and fakes, clinching techniques with counters, head hunting, body work and isolation sparring drills. Readers also will learn how to box against tall and short opponents as well as a variety fo fighting styles-charger, speed-demon , stick and move slugger and brawler.

This comprehensive manual illustrates and tells how to throw advanced combinations, cut off the ring, fight off the ropes, generate power, show more corner a foe, and, perhaps most important of all, how to hit and not get hit. Information is presented through logical, easy to follow drills that require just two pairs of gloves and the enthusiasm of a sparring partner.

Mark Hatmaker is the author of three no holds barred fighing books and over 20 instructional videos including three boxing tapes. HIs resume includes more than two decades experience in the combat arts including boxing, wrestling, jiujitsu and muay thai. He is a highly regarded coach of professional and amateur fighters, law enforcement officials and security personnel.

Doug Werner is co-author of two best selling boxing guides, Boxer's Start-Up and Fighting Fit, and has published 20 sport and fitness books.

Product Description
This guide to the finer points of boxing provides the wisdom needed to make the transition from enthusiastic beginner to proficient pugilist. The ABCs of ring generalship, offensive and defensive ring movements, feints, and draws and fakes are examined and explained along with clinching techniques, head-hunting, body work, and counter-punching chains. Strategies for boxing against tall and short opponents as well as for a variety of fighting styles such as charger, speed-demon, stick-and-move, and slugger and brawler are discussed in detail. Specific drills focus on sophisticated ring stratagems such as throwing complex combinations, cutting off the ring, fighting off the ropes, generating power, and cornering an opponent are included.

About the Author
Mark Hatmaker is the author of No Holds Barred Fighting and More No Hold Barred Fighting. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Doug Werner is the author of Boxer's Start-Up and Fighting Fit. He lives in San Diego, California.

Once again, Mark Hatmaker has taken a subject and not only excellently explained the "how", but also the "why" as well. "Boxing Mastery" is exactly that: both a "how to" and "why for" book.

Mr. Hatmaker covers everything from the hinge principle (for generating power into every punch) to different boxer's stances and when they're most effective to upper- and lower-body mobility drills and how to cut off the ring. Make no mistake, this is a book for fighters, not a guide to "better fitness through non-contact boxing".

As expected, Hatmaker covers the most basic punches, footwork, drills, and targets, and he does so in a logical, concise and easy-to-understand manner the likes of which I've never seen outside of his works. In addition, he doesn't JUST stick to the basics. Chapters like "KO's and power punching", "Pivoting and waltzing", "Ring generalship", "Beat punching", and "Defensive concepts" shed light on nearly every imaginable aspect of the in-ring side of boxing. The only *minor* complaint I have is that this book refers to a chapter out of another book of his, "NHB: Savage Strikes", when talking about the basics of punching. I own that book too, so it's no big loss to me, but it may take away from the experience a little for a begginer. Still, it's such a small complaint that it never took away from the reading and learning experience for me.

For anyone who felt like something was missing from Beaumont's "Championship Streetfighting", this book fills in the gaps (footwork, defense) and then some. It can also stand alone, and I'd recomend it to anyone who wants to improve their boxing game, be they novice or experienced, as well as just anyone who wants to know how to throw a punch. I can't say enough good things about this book! by Joseph M. Burtner

I'll begin by stating that I'm not strictly a western boxer, I'm mainly practice Muay Thai kickboxing... but I figured since most of Muay Thai is western boxing from the waist up, that I should get a book on the subject of boxing. I have bought quite a few books on everything from grapling, kickboxing, kung-fu, Kali/escrima and this book is by far the best instructional resource I have ever come across.

The author does a great job of explaining every technique and also includes clear pictures that do a very good job of demonstrating those techniques. Although the book seems geared to more advanced boxers, I highly suggest this book for novice and intermediate boxers as well... by Kristofer Felton show less

The Gladiator Conditioning Workbook is the hands-on companion to Mark Hatmaker's acclaimed Gladiator Conditioning DVD/video. Together, these titles make up the Gladiator Conditioning Program, a scientifically sound progression of strength, endurance,and flexibilitiy exercises specifically designed to meet the needs of the hard-core combat athlete. In addition to providing a convenient training reference that you can take with you anywhere, this unique workbook contains bonus supplemental show more material that will supercharge your personal combat fitness training, including:

The key scientific principles of the Gladiator Conditioning Program.
The real meaning of combat fitness and how to achieve it.
Breath control secrets that will significantly increase your fighting endurance.
How to develop mental toughness for training and combat.
Variations on the core eight to hate, grappler's dozen, and sandbag workout exercises.
No-nonsense nutritional advice for the serious combat athlete.
Customized gladiator workout schedules for athletes of all levels, including 'pro' training routines and Hatmaker's patented 'shock' workouts for ultimate fighting fitness.

Whether you battle on the mat, in the ring, or on the street, this phenomenal fitness program wil help yu develop the targeted strength and endurance you need to win. Take the gladiator conditioning challenge and you'll be ready to take on all challengers.

Contents

Introduction
1 Fundamental concepts
Specificity
Synergy
Somatotrophics
Efficiency and effectiveness
Conclusion
2 Take a breather: The ultimate importance of breath control
Competing breath rates
Clearing brath
Energizing breath
Compressed breath
Stacked breath
Relaxing breath
Additoinal breath training
3 The demands of combat
4 Mind games
5 The eight to hate
Baithek/Squats
The full dand
Back neck bridge
Front neck bridge
Gladiator crunches
Pull fours
Grip work
Jump squats
6 The grappler's dozen
Foot stretch
Calf stretch
Hamsting stretch
Groin stretch
Quadricips stretch
Spinal twist
Split plough/lumbar spine stretch
Tucked plough/cervical stretch
Cat stretch/thoracic spine stretch
Chest/pec stretch
Shoulder girdle/deltoid stretch
Triceps stretch
7 The sandbag workout
Bridge press
Hack squats
Triceps extension
Squats
Upright row
Back squats
Jump squats
Bent rows
Calf raises
Front press
Beind the neck press
Biceps curls
8 Eight to hate variations
9 Nutrition
10 Gladiator schedules
Starting out
The maintenance program
The pro routine
Shock routines
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In this book, Mark Hatmaker quantifies fighting offense and defense in a qualitative manner-ranking offensive tactics and strategies in descending order of success.

Inside are explained and captured in more than 750 action sequential images the most successful fight finishers in the mixed martial arts.

Strikes.
Ground and pound.
Arm bars.
Guillotines.
Triangle chokes.
Shoulder choke/arm triangles.

The most prolific NHB/MMA author serving the fight community today.

Mark Hatmaker is the author of all show more eight books in the No Holds Barred Fighting Series, Boxing Mastery and No Second Chance: A Reality-Based Guide to Self-Defense. He has also produced more than 40 instructional videos. Hatmaker founded Extreme Self Protection (ESP), a research body that compiles, analyzes and teaches the most effective Western combat methods known.

Contents

How to use thie NHBF manuals
Intro: Primer
1 My empirical data ate your dogma
2 Maddening method
3 Pareto's principle revisited
4 Hierarchy of utility
5 Hieraarchy of futility
6 Bellagio hypothesis
7 Conditioning gut checks
8 Strikes
9 Ground and pound
10 Arm bar
11 Sleeper
12 Guillotine
13 Triangle choke
14 Shoulder choke/arm triangle
15 Heel hook
Resources
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How to fight in the collision zone.

This book is your guide to everything you need to know about how to gain the clinch or how to avoid it.

You will learn:

How to strike with tools unique to the clinch game.
How to best protect yourself in this most vulnerable of vertical positions.
The varieties of clinches.
How to navigate freely from one to the other to better our position.

And you learn the numerous throws, drops and takedowns that are peculiar to the clinch game. You will also be guided show more through the many ways to defend against these position-specific takedowns and learn how to use your opponent's gambit as an opportunity for offense. In other words, this guide is your one-stop reference for a specific skill set that all intelligent and experienced fighters know is an inevitability.

Mark Hatmaker has authored these No Holds Barred Fighting books: the Ultimate Guide to Submission Wrestling, Killer Submissions, Savage Strikes and Takedowns. Also to his credit are Boxing Mastery and over 40 videos.

Contents

How to use the NHB manuals
Introducton
1 Clinch varieties
2 clinch conditioning
3 It's ok to disagree
4 Circling
5 Pummeling
6 Strikeing within the clinch: offense and defense
Head clinch striking offense
Head clinch striking defense
Collar and elbow sriking offense
Over-under clinch striking offense
7 Clinch takedowns
Head clinch takedowns
Collar and elbow clinch takedowns
Over-uinder clinch takedowns-Trip takedowns; Flying mares and arm throws; Hip throws; Headlock throws; Arm drags and go-behinds; Body lock throws; Whizzer throws; Duck under throws
8 Countering clinch takedowns
Counter throws versus the go-behind
9 Backcast-the money move
Backcast counters
Rear backcast counters
Resources (bibliography)
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