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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Kickboxing Mass Market Paperback – February 18, 2000

by Karon Karter (Author), Guy Mezger (Author), Alpha Group (Author)

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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.

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400 pages
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English
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Alpha
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February 18, 2000
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18 years and up
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7.34 x 0.92 x 9.08 inches
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0028631757
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978-0028631752
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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 the co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Kickboxing, as well as The Healthy Traveler: Eight Steps to Healthful Flying. She is certified by the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and teaches Pilates “Mat” classes. Her Pilates class appears in Fitness magazine’s “Fitbuzz” column and every week on ESPN2’s Crunch Fitness. She lives in Dallas, TX.

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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Alpha; 1st edition (February 18, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0028631757
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0028631752
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.34 x 0.92 x 9.08 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,332,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Charles T Franklin

Great intro to kickboxing and great guide to fitness

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 15, 2014

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Pros: User-friendly guide to fundamentals of kickboxing. Incredible and detailed fitness program (with daily schedules!). Offers more than one type of fitness program for more than one type of user

Cons: Pictures are black and white and don't give a lot of detail

If you are a couch potato martial artist (love to watch, but haven't participated in martial arts yet); this book is a great book to get introduced to the world of kickboxing It guides you through the fundamental techniques and movements of a kickboxing novice (along with some more advanced combinations) along with providing some nutritional guidance and a complete fitness program for the beginning kickboxer as well as the more experienced (and actually competing) fighter.

I won't say that you will be a kickboxing champion after reading this book, but you can:
1. Learn to identify and practice the basic fundamentals (Make sure you get a coach to make sure you are doing this correctly!)
2. Use the fitness and nutrition program to help you train and look like a fighter even if you don't want to be a professional kickboxer

The book is accommodating to both purposes. The book is sequential and very easy to follow along with. The pictures, though, are in black and white and don't always give a lot of detail. If you are already familiar with the basic kickboxing moves, this is probably a refresher book. If you're new to the field or just want to get more fit

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Kevin Kiersky

Western Kickboxing +++

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2011

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Via this very user friendly manual, all the main angles of Western Kickboxing are presented in a fluid, clear and sharp manner. The layout is good. The graphic is good. The font is good. The wording is good. Alltho well-organized via progressive modules, there is good variety to keep interest going. Ring and general strategy and tactics are quite relevant to Kickboxing. Kickboxing moves are well illustrated and explained as are their combos [combinations]. Practice and fine-tuning of those is well presented. Nutrition, warm-up, sparring, and cool-down are practically presented. Chapter 18 "The Perfect Self-Defense", Chapter 19 "The Complete Martial Artist" and Chapter 20 "The Fight of Your Life" have great advice on extending Kickboxing out of the Ring for self-protection. Kickboxing is long-time well-proven versus all opponents in and out of the Ring -- from most classical Savate to most modern Kickboxing. Savate has a nice quick explanation on page 20 in a good chapter on history and development of Kickboxing. Karon Karter and Guy Mezger have created a SMART guide to Western Kickboxing +++

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maliante007

Great book for beginners.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2016

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You are not going to become Chuck Norris with this book but it give you some basic information and tips to improve your technique. Of course you need a punching bag and gloves to practice what you learn in this book. Practice shadow boxing in front of a mirror and record yourself with a camera to see what you doing wrong and what you need to improve. The only thing I didn't like was the pictures because they are black and white and no many detail. I think the book is a little dated. I have new MMA books and they have color pictures and lot of details. I think is a good book to start with.

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me

Good beginner's book. Especially for women.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2007

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This is the first martial arts book I have read that is written with women in mind. Don't get me wrong, it's not all about women kickboxers. It's just the first time I've read any martial arts book with specific paragraphs for and about women in martial arts. This is a good book for beginners or someone just trying to decide if they want to try kickboxing. It includes techniques, conditioning and theory. This book needs more pictures explaining the moves, positions and combinations. This book seems like it would be inspirational for women.

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JJ

Informative & Illustrative

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2020

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A very in depth book on the sport. Great info, pictures and explanations. Even gives background and history. Excellent value.

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Tom Eakin

this is a good introduction to it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 17, 2016

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If your getting your start in Kickboxing, weather it be to exercise,get fit & healthy or go in the ring, this is a good introduction to it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2013

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I really liked this book, especially because the pictures and descriptions of the moves. There's a lot of videos on Youtube about kickboxing, but I found this book very complete and the form it teaches seems to be good and natural. At the very least, you'll understand a lot about kickboxing after reading this.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 26, 2013

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I had to get this cause I'm an idiot (at times) so the title was appropriate! Good information and afterwards you won't feel like an idiot anymore!

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Ben Hopper

which this book is very good at. The problem is I feel this book ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 11, 2015

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I'm a young male wanted to increase my knowledge on the theory of kickboxing, which this book is very good at. The problem is I feel this book is more geared towards females and tries to get their interest in the sport up.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 10, 2017

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not the best book I have on the subject but well worth it

DIANA

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 9, 2014

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Amazing book and easy to understand