No Holds Barred Fighting: The Book of Essential Submissions (eBook)

101 Tap Outs!

Mark Hatmaker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2009 | 1. Auflage
Tracks Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-935937-06-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Chock-full of go-to finishing holds and tap-outs, this action-filled guide illustrates how to skillfully perform these essential fighting moves. More than 100 high-percentage submissions are detailed using sequenced action photographs to help strengthen the wrestling vocabulary of Mixed Martial Arts athletes. Whether used during competition or on the street, these submissions will allow both novice and seasoned no-holds-barred fighters to hold their own.

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Primer Everyone seems to be interested in the best or greatest of almost everything.We revel in top ten lists, the best rankings, hierarchies of any and all sorts. The rankings can be something as meaningful as the most influential books in history or as vacuous as VH1's 'Cutest Child Stars of All-Time.' (I watched that show. I have no idea why. Your pity and disdain are noted and well deserved.) We enjoy rankings because human beings are pattern seeking, systemizing animals. Ratings are fun and sometimesuseful. There are two ways to rank, and one is, by far, more useful than the other. he two ways to rank, of course, are subjective and objective. Subjective rankings are merely matters of taste. Is onechild star quantifiably cuter than another? How does one actually measure cuteness? Have we developed a calibrated cuteometer that renders such rankings foolproof? Is the Oscar winning film for best picture in a given year actually the best film produced that year? Is 1998's 'Shakespeare In Love' really a better film thanthat same year's 'Saving Private Ryan'? My subjectivemeter says,'Hell no!' You get the picture. Subjective rankings are entertaining and perhaps of use in finding new music, newfilm or realizing that Punky Brewster is far cuter than Doogie Howser, but subjective ratings are meaningless by consensus or fiat. I mean that a select individual or individuals declare Coke is better than Pepsi, and so it is.While this is blasphemy to Pepsi drinkers, the declaration is meaningless. Coke drinkers keep drinkingCoke, and Pepsi drinkers keep drinking their far inferiorbeverage. Win-win. The second way to rank - the objective - is where the money is. Objective rankings presume that there is a definite set of criterion to be measured. The ability to make quantifiable estimations of a subject can lead us to rankings that are qualitative. Objective rankings do not concern themselves with cute child stars or pizza toppings. Objective rankings leave opinion behind and turn to the laboratory. When I say laboratory, it is any location where objective tests take place. Sure, some laboratories are complete with white labcoats, beakers and retorts filled with substances beyond my ken. But a laboratory also can be a motor speedway - which car is fastest? The lab says, that one. A lab can be a gym with an Olympic bar and weight plates - who can lift more? He can. A lab can be a hiking trail - who can make it to the top first? She can. When we move beyond opinion to results, we are seeing objective testing at work. Empirical data. The scientific method at play. This second renaissance of MMA (the first rebirth occurred at the beginning of the last century) has provided us with laboratories all over the world. The Octagons, cages and rings where MMA competition takes place have been entertaining and supply solid, objective results about what does and does not work in the sport of MMA. This book is a primer, an elementary manual, of what you need to know about MMA competition. It's not what you need to know because I say it is. It's what you need toknow because the objective data says that this is what you need to know. What you must know. What you have to know. In other words, the essentials.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
• ISBN-10: 1-935937-06-5 / 1935937065
• ISBN-13: 978-1-935937-06-7 / 9781935937067