Complete Kickboxing: The Fighter's Ultimate Guide to Techniques, Concepts and Strategy for Sparring and Competition
by Martina Sprague, Keith Livingston
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Author: Keith Livingston, Martina SpragueEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04
ISBN: 1880336847
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Turtle Press
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Book Review: More like muay Thai...
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this book to help motivate me back into training, I have been a student of kickboxing for about 5 years but recently my training record has been a bit patchy to say the least and I had been feeling very rusty.
First impressions of the book were good; it is well presented and well formatted (unlike some I could mention...).
A small problem is that the book leads off straight away with instructional information, I was expecting a bit of context: such as the history/development of kickboxing, different stables/rules of the sport, full-contact karate, K1, Muay Thai, kickboxing etc.
It is left to the knowledgeable reader to discern that the book is really about Muay Thai rather than what I know as kickboxing, that being: no kicks below the belt except sweeps, no knees or elbows, foot and shin pads to be worn etc. I don't know if this a result of differing terminology on each side of the Atlantic (I am from the UK) but I found it a little irritating. I should have been expecting as much since the front cover shows one of the fighters performing a kick to his opponent's leg, but the term 'kickboxing' is sometimes used as an umbrella term to cover a number of related martial arts.
I was disappointed until I read a little further, and of course the skills and techniques in Muay Thai are mostly directly transferable to kickboxing and the instruction IS excellent; with not only pictures of correctly executed techniques, but pictures of incorrectly performed techniques and bad stances to highlight the weaknesses and most importantly WHY the correct ones should be adopted. There is comprehensive training and dietary information which also deals with psychological aspects of preparing for a contest; an area in which other books I have read are generally lacking. There are interesting 'stories' from the authors, recounting their own experiences as seasoned fighters, which adds interest and context to the instructional material.
In summary, this is a very well put together book by authors who really know their stuff. I would have liked to see Thai/kickboxing broken down a bit into their own styles, and the rules or discipline that the authors are instructing in made a bit clearer. I think that this book is better for someone with a certain level of experience but, that said, it would still be a valuable companion to someone just starting off in sports martial arts.
I would have to say overall that I was pleased with this book for the money thanks to it's level of detail along with good breadth and depth of coverage of the subject matter.
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