Fight to Win
Fight to Win started out under the title 'Winning Fights'. That's what it's about.
It's nice to know millions of martial arts techniques, but combat effectiveness does not require that. Instead, a small but versatile toolkit of techniques that you can use under many different circumstances is more useful, especially when coupled with an effectve training methodology and 'fight-to-win' mindset.
Fight to Win explains how fights - that is, 'street' encounters and sporting matches like - are won and lost, and how to fight towards the goal of winning. That does not necessarily mean incapacitating the opponent - though that works! Depending on circumstances, 'winning' could also mean creating an opportunity to escape, showing the judges what they need to see in order to award you victory, or 'persuading' the opponent that he wants to give up. A fighter who understands what he is trying to achieve in a given situation is more likely to succeed...
... assuming of course that he knows how to fight. To that end Fight to Win presents a toolkit of 20 must-have combat techniques that cover all eventualities: striking and kicking, close-quarters grappling, takedowns and finishes on the ground. More importantly, training methodology is also covered, because this is not a book about performing martial arts techniques - it's about becoming an effectve fighter. What you do is sometimes less important than how you go about doing it, and becoming an effective fighter is more about using your tools than endlessly acquiring new ones.
It has been wisely said that 'martial artists learn new techniques; fighters drill the ones they already know'. That analogy can be taken too far of course, but the underlying pholosophy behind Fight to Win is that if you understand what you need to do, you have some tools that can get the job done, and you have a winner's mindset then you're well prepared to succeed.
It's nice to know millions of martial arts techniques, but combat effectiveness does not require that. Instead, a small but versatile toolkit of techniques that you can use under many different circumstances is more useful, especially when coupled with an effectve training methodology and 'fight-to-win' mindset.
Fight to Win explains how fights - that is, 'street' encounters and sporting matches like - are won and lost, and how to fight towards the goal of winning. That does not necessarily mean incapacitating the opponent - though that works! Depending on circumstances, 'winning' could also mean creating an opportunity to escape, showing the judges what they need to see in order to award you victory, or 'persuading' the opponent that he wants to give up. A fighter who understands what he is trying to achieve in a given situation is more likely to succeed...
... assuming of course that he knows how to fight. To that end Fight to Win presents a toolkit of 20 must-have combat techniques that cover all eventualities: striking and kicking, close-quarters grappling, takedowns and finishes on the ground. More importantly, training methodology is also covered, because this is not a book about performing martial arts techniques - it's about becoming an effectve fighter. What you do is sometimes less important than how you go about doing it, and becoming an effective fighter is more about using your tools than endlessly acquiring new ones.
It has been wisely said that 'martial artists learn new techniques; fighters drill the ones they already know'. That analogy can be taken too far of course, but the underlying pholosophy behind Fight to Win is that if you understand what you need to do, you have some tools that can get the job done, and you have a winner's mindset then you're well prepared to succeed.