This is a crash course in combat basics. It ranges from jiu jitsu and greco-roman wrestling to boxing. Satisfactory picture-description balance makes this short manual an easy source on understanding commercial combat. It is also a good way to understand how one should handle himself in life threatening situations. I read this book on my morning bus rides, it doesn't take any weight in my bag and uses simple language. Truly made for the every-man.

This book will be useful for anyone adopting the ideology and the historical background of aikido from the manual. Not very usefull for the person who just moved into that bad neighbourhood.

This book is a classic. It's up to the interpreter to see whether or not Machievelli was being satirical or realistic.

For a classroom of almost 120 students, my teacher has found a good way to make use of this item.

This book really does not waste time. Just like the fighting system it covers, it gets streight to the point. It has at least 3 to 5 pictures on each of the 315 pages of techniques. The other 27 pages are merely the table of content, historical background, legal consequences of self-defense, 'how to use this book', and index.

For anybody who is defenseless, this book is sure to raise your confidence. The combat form itself is easy to practice on its own. Just make sure you do not use these tecniques without having a REALLY good reason.

This book is a good addition to a repetoire of combat knowledge, but the title is misleading.
It covers all the stages of a fight within a controlled fighting environment, mainly good for MMA fights. Since I've read the book, I have been more able to properly explain why certain moves are made in UFC fights. There are study cases in the book that explain the effectiveness of some moves in accordance to statistical analyses. It is well organised and the step-by-step pictures are explained in a meaningful way.

The greatest feat of the book is its direction on explaining 'why' as opposed to just 'how'. You could easily become the group commentator and really get in dept in explaining the fight from the psychology of the fighter, as opposed to just the physical
My main disappointments were my choices in the size of the manual and the form of martial arts itself that I could not conveniently whip out and practice with a tree.