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Boxing: The American Martial Art: A 12 Week Boxing Course

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This book works. It lays down a solid foundation. The exercises and practice drills continually produce and reinforce positions that the practitioner will appreciate later on. Its subtle but it will become quite apparent IF one does exactly as the book says. A good place to start.

The American Martial Art is the most comprehensive boxing book now available. It covers all the basic punches,and defenses. However, I enjoyed the sugggested workouts covering the heavy bag work,shadow boxxing and counterpunching. No other book I have seen covers counterpunching in any detail.This book offers several counterpunch workouts. Anyone one who puts in the time and effort and completes the 12 week course offered in The American Martial Art, will become a much better boxer. I highly recommend it.

Don't be fooled by the title of this book. It is not a twelve week boxing course. It is an unintelligible hodgepodge of various boxing training techniques and descriptions of basic punches thrown together in an utterly disorganized fashion. There is no "program" at all in this book. No one could learn anything useful about boxing from this. It just describes the punches and a few simple boxing workout routines in a disjointed and very cursory way. The "routines", as such, are so elementary as to be useless. Just telling the reader to practice a jab, for instance, does not make a "program". I have to believe it was self-published, because no editor would let this pass muster. It reads like a series of unconnected chapters, with one describing a jab, another a hook, etc.
I guess if you were from Mars and had never seen a boxing match or had seen a boxing gym, you would learn a little, but that's pretty much all it would be good for. They actually show you a photo of a heavy bag, in case you have no earthly idea what it is. A complete waste of fifteen bucks. It makes me wonder if the other positive reviews are legitimate.

Boxing: The American Martial Art: A 12 Week Boxing Course is an awesome book written by a man who's a former amateur boxing champion named r. Michael Onello. this book teaches you a lesson or two about boxing like the throwing. this book also features the drills that make you be a true boxing champion. whatever you're a weekend warrior or a pro champion, that book is true champion. i got in the library 5 years ago when i was in 7th grade and was 13 years old. i loves this boxing book and every boxing jocks wants it.

Boxing has a long history in the United States but this combat art has been around since the dawn of humankind. This book covers the basic techniques and tactics of boxing in a systematic way. Like any physical skills book, one cannot become proficient without actual hands-on instruction from a boxing coach. Nevertheless, this text covers the equipment needed, stretching exercises, strength training tips, cardiovascular exercises , basic stance, movement, defensive positions, how to move, how jab, how to throw the straight right, the hook and uppercut.

Other material explained in this book includes advanced punches, strategies, defensive tactics and advice for boxing instructors. It also has advanced routines, variations and continuing on to competition. It also contains a basic glossary.

In conclusion, and to be honest, this book was somewhat of a disappointment. It had too many stretching photos but not nearly enough photos of the other techniques and tactics it writes about. This book is clearly written for the absolute beginner in boxing and did not have much to offer the advanced boxing student. To be fair, this book does include some solid basic exercises for boxers.

Rating: 3 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Pro-Systems Combatives Vol. 1,2)

Poorly written. Exercises not well described and not enough photos to demonstrate them. Not a bad overall program once you figure it out but it takes too much effort to decipher. I have learned much more from other books and (of course) from my trainer.

Mr. Onello's book is as one would expect from an experienced teacher: It is straight forward, easy to understand, and results driven. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in boxing for fitness or even for self defense.

The book gives a basic outline of the great American art of self-defense, Boxing. The author introduces the foundation to the necessary basics to train and compete, if desired. Yet, boxing is a hands on sport that must be physically executed to truly learn. A book can serve as a guide or to attempt to enlighten one to the basics, but without a coach or sparring partner it can never be understood.

The recent trend to train in the exercises of a boxer has gained popularity because it is one of the toughest sports, if not the toughest, to obtain to appropriate amount of fitness in order to safely compete.

I saw the early manuscript of this book and was impressed by the author's insights into not only the technique of boxing but also the mental and emotional side of the sport. Michael himself demonstrates an excellent mix of determination, skill, and teaching ability to help anyone benefit from this book. Whether amateur or professional, you will learn a lot about boxing and about how to be a fair-minded competitor.

This is a very basic book meant mostly for the beginner. There are many other books out there which will take the up and comming boxer well beyond the info in this book.