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Fighters Fact Book: Over 400 Concepts, Principles & Drills to Make You a Better Fighter! Paperback – September 26, 2000
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- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTurtle Press
- Publication dateSeptember 26, 2000
- Dimensions5.98 x 0.67 x 9.02 inches
- ISBN-101880336375
- ISBN-13978-1880336373
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- Publisher : Turtle Press; Second Impression edition (September 26, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1880336375
- ISBN-13 : 978-1880336373
- Item Weight : 15.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.67 x 9.02 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,189,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As a professional writer since 1978, Mr. Christensen has penned over 70 published books with six publishers, dozens of magazine articles, and edited a police newspaper for seven years. He has written on the martial arts, the paranormal, missing children, street gangs, school shootings, workplace violence, riots, police-involved shootings, nutrition, exercise, prostitution, and various street subcultures. Of late, he has been writing an award-winning police thriller fiction series called Dukkha. His short stories—OLD ED, BOSS, and Parts—are popular among fans of gritty action.
His books have been translated into five languages. Policing Saigon and On Combat are also published as audio books.
The Masters Hall of Fame inductee began training in the martial arts in 1965 and continues to this day. Over the years, he has earned a 1st-degree black belt in arnis, a 2nd-degree black belt in jujitsu, and in 2018, the American Karate Black Belt Association awarded Loren a 10th-degree black belt in karate. As a result of his tour in Vietnam and nearly three decades in law enforcement, Mr. Christensen's focus in the martial arts—writing, teaching, and training—has always been on street survival, not competition. He has starred in seven martial arts training videos.
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The author is a well-known martial artists and writer who has written numerous books on the fighting arts. This interesting and informative book covers an enormous amount of practical and unique drills to increase your speed, strength and power. There are more than 400 concepts, principles and drills to increase your fighting skills.
This book is organized into two parts. Part one deals with physical training drills such as ways to train alone, ways to improve your hand techniques, improve your kicks, improve your speed, improve your sparring, score almost every time, improve your blocking, improve your kata, increase your power, train for self-defense, prepare for a belt test and improve your health and fitness. Part two covers mental training methods to relieve stress, using mental imagery, deal with pain, learn quickly, conquer and be safe in your daily life.
If you are seeking to develop and increase your skill in the martial arts and self-defense you should check out this very informative and practical volume.
Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Training Alone In the Martial Arts and Self-Defense).
I like the author and I enjoyed his writing style. He knows what he is talking about. If you are a regular Karate student that trains in a gi and goes to a studio/dojo three times a week and is concerned with tests and ranking, you will probably benefit from this book. It's a great book for a Karate/Tae Kwon Do student who needs to learn the difference between the dojo and the street, but not for someone who already understands the difference.
There is solid and sound advice on nutrition, working out with and without a partner, and ways to improve speed and performance, but if you have even a modest backround in critical martial arts practice and you are just looking for a few new arrows to put in your quiver, I don't believe this book has much to offer you.
* Keep your defense/offense simple, powerful, fast. The fewer decisions you have to make, the faster you'll be.
* Avoid injury while training. Pace yourself. Remember, a gradual demand leads to gradual increase.
* Make full use of imagination/self-suggestion while training.
* Shadow box in various locations/various conditions-in the bathroom, on the stairs, in the dark, in your bedroom, outside.
* Train to your favorite music (you can often train longer).
* Develop your abs--the stronger your abs, the harder you can hit.
* Stay away from your opponent unless you're attacking.
* When you retreat, keep attacking while retreating.
* Combine as many techniques as you can into 3-5 seconds. Practice them a lot. Harder, faster.
* Manipulate your opponent's mind with fakes/feigns.
* Mess with your opponent's brain. Attack head, feet, gut (hi, low, middle), first one side of body, then the other.
* Unbalance opponent with trips, sweeps, throws, jams, pulls, pushes.
* Don't let opponent get set. Jab every time he gets set. Keep opponent off balance.
* Attack painful targets. Strike through your target, not just at it.
* Block and counter at same time.
* Kick your opponent's legs hard and often--in the same spot.
* Use multiple blows/kicks. Never assume a single technique will be enough.
Someone recently asked me about this book. The advice I gave was to buy it, read it, and practice the techniques. Then re-read it at least three more times over the first year, and finally, to review it annually. The information provided in this book can definitely help you develop your skills.
Timothy A. Storlie, PhD
Author of Transformational Daydreaming
1) It should be titled how to make yourself a better Karate student, not a fighter. Many of the sections cover things like Kata, Belt evaluation and tournament prep.
2) Every piece of advice in this book is common sense or ridiculous. For Example:
- Train more
- Train hard
- Solo train if you don't have a partner
- Use a Heavy Bag
- Avoid Gang Members
- Stretch
- Train while watching TV
- Focus on building up your weaker "Karate" techniques
- Take Creatine
- Do Aerobics
- Do daily affirmations
You are far better off with "Attack Proof", which teaches some real drills to improve Agility, Balance and Co-ordination. This will help you regardless of what Martial Arts your practice.
Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction
- Timing in the Fighting Arts: Your Guide to Winning in the Ring and Surviving on the Street
- Solo Training: The Martial Artist's Guide to Training Alone
- Fighter's Fact Book: Over 400 Concepts, Principles, and Drills to Make You a Better Fighter
All of these are great books and I look forward to selling my house (I had to hide Bob from perspective buyers... that face!) so that I can put Bob in my new garage and start abusing him with all of these new concepts... one by one... it will take a while!
Thanks!
David








