Judo Unleashed: Essential Throwing & Grappling Techniques for Intermediate to Advanced Martial Artists by Neil Ohlenkamp Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Judo Unleashed: Essential Throwing & Grappling Techniques for Intermediate to Advanced Martial Artists
Book Review: Outstanding Instructional Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an incredible work. The author has a definite labor of love in creating this phenomenal treatise on Judo. Check out his award-winning website www.judoinfo.com and you will see his great work. The author expands on his website information with this book, making many of the grips, throws, footwork, etc easier to see and understand.
Having been a practicing martial artist for over twenty years, I am picky about the reference books I select. This is one of my top three books.
Highly recommended for anyone in any style, especially looking for solid information on the basics of judo. Along with Kano's "Kodokan Judo", this will become the standard judo 'bible'.
Well worth the investment!
Book Review: This Might Become the Standard
Summary: 5 Stars
- beautiful pictures, all colour
- street-fighting applications of everything explained IN DETAIL
- complete techniques
- lots of interesting stuff to read
Judo is presented here as a fighting art in its entirety. Neil runs the world's biggest Judo website, and is probably the most informed judoka there is on this planet. He hasn't left anything out, and doesn't waste space explaining things either. It's all here and really fun to read and consult!
This book will do a lot of great things for promoting Judo.
WOW!
Book Review: This is a good book for people new to Judo
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this book to be a good introduction to Judo. It touches on a lot of topics like the history of Judo, what Judo is, how it works, self defense, sport, personal development, theory, and techniques. That's a lot to try to pack into one book but Mr. Ohlenkamp did a good job and has put together a book that he can be proud of.
Pros: The book is very well laid out in a neat, organized manner. It's printed on high quality paper which makes the book easy to read and visually appealing. It goes over the official 67 throws that are recognized by the Kodokan and some of the moves have variations to help you out when you can't get a technique to work in the traditional way. Along with each move there is a little diagram that shows the ending position for your feet which helps in the understanding how to perform each technique. The part I found the most valuable is the Appendices. This section does many things; it translates the Japanese words for easier understanding. It goes over and explains sport rules and scoring. The appendix tells you which moves are recognized by the Kodokan and Judo Federation. Last but not least is my favorite part. It has a chart that tells you which moves are good to set up other moves and a follow up attack in case you miss the technique you were going for along with the most used counters to each move. As a beginner Judoka, I'm finding the appendix section of the book very helpful.
Cons: Often the moves are described in about 3 pictures with a paragraph explaining the whole move. I felt this made it hard to tell when to apply the details within the move and sometimes it was hard to tell what was going on in the pictures. The Grappling section I found very weak. The book only had one picture per move and that was the ending position without any explanation of how to set it up or the mechanics of the move. I felt this section could have been skipped and I wouldn't have missed anything. The only other thing that I didn't care for in this book was that at times Neil gets a little long winded but that can also be a good thing depending on who's reading it.
I'm keeping this book around as I found it to be a good reference book for my Judo needs. Overall, I felt this was a good book with a lot to offer people that are new to intermediate in Judo but it might be just the same old stuff or people that have been in the sport for a long time.
Book Review: Very impressive
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not an experienced Judoka, I don't study it formally, but I do take several other martial arts, and I have found this book to be an excellent addition to my skills. I currently study Muay Thai, Karate, and do MMA classes every now and then, and I've found this book to be incredibly helpful. When sparring in my MMA class I can utilze many of the techniques and princibles laid out in this book.
I gives clear description of each technique, as well as counter techniques to each move. It also shows what to do if your technique fails, and how to immediately move to the next one. I even show the book to a couple of the Judo black belts in my Muay Thai class, and they asked where they could get a copy to help with their training.
I'd definately reccomend this to anyone interested in Judo, or any current students of the art.
One of the best books in my collection.
Book Review: Wow, nice book
Summary: 5 Stars
The reason I waited off on buying this book for so long is because it was so cheep I figured it must be all in black and white with cheap paper. But I was completely wrong and pleasantly surprised! The production quality is terrific for the price! Nice semi-glosi color pictures, really asthectically pleasing. Maybe that is not so important to everyone, but to me it makes all the difference. I am so much more drawn to a book that is this visually inviting over drab black n white book. I would normally expect to pay $15-20 for a book like this, but for $8-13 it is a freakin steal.