With The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing, there's a new way to get the body sweating. This guide covers the ancient art and modern kickboxing, Kickboxing gear, and how to build leaner legs and a better butt. Learn power punches--cross, hook, upper cut, overhand, as well as the spinning back fist, stabs and slashes. Idiot-proof steps guide you through footwork, target practice, and stretches, allowing you to tailor beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts. Covers every level in the ring--lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight, super heavyweight.
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With The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing, there's a new way to get the body sweating. This guide covers the ancient art and modern kickboxing, Kickboxing gear, and how to build leaner legs and a better butt. Learn power punches--cross, hook, upper cut, overhand, as well as the spinning back fist, stabs and slashes. Idiot-proof steps guide you through footwork, target practice, and stretches, allowing you to tailor beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts. Covers every level in the ring--lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight, super heavyweight.
About the Author
Karon Karter is a fitness guru as well as author of The Healthy Traveler: Eight Steps to Healthful Flying. She lives in Dallas.
Guy Mezger has had 122 full contact fights in kickboxing, karate, judo, and freestyle fighting, and he holds four world titles: Ultimate Fighting Champion, World Pancrase Free-Fighting Champion, World Heavyweight Kickboxing Champion, and World Freestyle Fighting Champion. As a trainer, Guy works with some of the hottest new kickboxing hopefuls and teaches all levels of kickboxing, including children. Guy lives in Dallas.
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54 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely Fantastic!,
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing (Paperback)
If you are interested in kickboxing for sport, fitness (including cardio kickboxing) or self-defense, this is an excellent starting point and final destination (unless you wish to take it to a competitive level). This wonderful book provides the aspiring kickboxer with all the tools necessary to get fit and/or compete: a little history, factoids about the sport, training tips, and a through description of the required strikes, kicks, and blocking techniques. But what really makes this book shine, shine, shine is that it provides you with actually step-by-step beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts and conditioning drills that you can follow to get in fighting shape. No guess work necessary on your part! And if you have the guts and desire to take on the ultimate challenge, there is even an additional 8-week program to get you there. Then if that isn't enough, at the end of the book, it provides self-defense techniques with pictures. I highly recommend this gem of a book to anyone who has an interest in the sport or just getting in fighting shape. You won't be sorry!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!,
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing (Paperback)
I've read several books on kickboxing for fitness (and sport) and none are as organized or cover the sport of kickboxing or cardio kickboxing as completely and thoroughly as this book. This book gives you a little historic gems and little known facts, step-by-step technique description for the fighter's stance, kicks and punches. But it truly excels because it provides actual workout plans, schedules, and conditioning drills for the beginner, intermediate, and advanced, as well as for those who want to go to the ultimate level. If you are interested in kickboxing for fitness or sport, this book can be your first and last stop.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Complete Reference, Not the best for Beginners.,
This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing (Paperback)
I really thought this book was a 3, but after some thought I gave it a 3.5. The main reason I gave it the higher score is because, as many other reviewers point out, it is a very complete reference. It's loaded with information. The author is clearly very experienced.Unfortunately, as a beginner, this book came up short in several key areas. First of all, the pictures and diagrams were simply not clear enough. While not true of all books in this series, I find this issue does crop up from time to time. The pictures are dark and dated, and it's very difficult to clearly see the poses. The publisher should have sprung for new pictures for this book. The book's other shortcoming is in the area of organization. The information is dropped on you as if you were reading a dictionary. It's very difficult to learn something new by going through so much information. The book could have been better layed out, starting with some basic exercises and then delving into the more complex. In my opinion, these changes would make this a tremendously better book.
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Congratulations! You've just taken the first step to learning kickboxing-you've picked up this book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full contact rules, kick blocking drills, semicontact competitions, side knee strike, front leg round kick, left round kick, kick requirement, modern kickboxing, open guard position, rear knee strike, rear leg round kick, kick combo, kicking shield, rear leg front kick, focus mitts, fight log, overhand punch, kickboxing workout, shadow sparring, intermediate workout, groin protector, perfect trainer, grip pulldown, replacement shake, attacker grabs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kickboxing Buzz, Warning Warriors, The Least You Need, United States, Muay Thai, Kickboxing Wise, After the Lights Go Out, Grand Prix, Break Away, Ancient Art, Back Wide, Chest Flat, Maurice Smith, Everyone's Kicking, Ground Scenario, Jhoon Rhee, Michael Jordan, The Terminator New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Congratulations! You've just taken the first step to learning kickboxing-you've picked up this book. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
full contact rules, kick blocking drills, semicontact competitions, side knee strike, front leg round kick, left round kick, kick requirement, modern kickboxing, open guard position, rear knee strike, rear leg round kick, kick combo, kicking shield, rear leg front kick, focus mitts, fight log, overhand punch, kickboxing workout, shadow sparring, intermediate workout, groin protector, perfect trainer, grip pulldown, replacement shake, attacker grabs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kickboxing Buzz, Warning Warriors, The Least You Need, United States, Muay Thai, Kickboxing Wise, After the Lights Go Out, Grand Prix, Break Away, Ancient Art, Back Wide, Chest Flat, Maurice Smith, Everyone's Kicking, Ground Scenario, Jhoon Rhee, Michael Jordan, The Terminator New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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