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Machida Karate-Do Mixed Martial Arts Techniques Paperback – May 10, 2010

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Lyoto Machida, son of karate master Yoshizo Machida, is one of the top-ranked mixed martial arts competitors in the world. After earning his karate black belt at thirteen, he mastered a number of other martial arts disciplines, including sumo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Combining techniques from the various disciplines to form an unorthodox and highly effective fighting style, Machida took the martial arts world by storm, defeating legendary mixed martial artists such as BJ Penn, Rich Franklin and Tito Ortiz.

Now, for the first time, Machida divulges the secrets to his revolutionary fighting system. Detailing everything from stance to complex combinations to elaborate counterattacks to intricate ground fighting tactics, Machida has left no stone unturned. In Machida Karate-Do, Lyoto Machida teaches martial artists his unique fighting system, bringing them to the next level of competition.

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276 pages
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Victory Belt Publishing
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May 10, 2010
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9.25 x 1 x 11 inches
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0981504493
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978-0981504490
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Lyoto Machida is a Japanese-Brazilian professional mixed martial arts fighter. Son of a Japanese-Brazilian Shotokan karate master, Lyoto is considered by many to be the next big superstar of the UFC, and currently holds the UFC light heavyweight title. He is the 1st UFC fighter to win a title with a perfect record (15-0).

Erich Krauss is a professional Muay Thai fighter and a New York Times bestselling author. He has written over twenty books.

Glen Cordoza is a professional MMA fighter. He is the author of eight books on the sport of MMA, including the best-selling title, Mixed Martial Arts.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Victory Belt Publishing (May 10, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0981504493
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0981504490
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.25 x 1 x 11 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,295,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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ERICH KRAUSS is a New York Times bestselling author who has written more than thirty books. Inspiration for his stories comes from more than twenty years traveling the globe, from living in the Amazon rainforest to fighting professionally in the Muay Thai rings of Thailand. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Georgina.
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Glen Cordoza is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Selling author, and a former professional mixed martial artist and Muay Thai boxer. He is one of the most published authors on the topics of MMA, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, and fitness with twenty books to his credit.
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Dragon seeks path, a review of Machida Karate-Do MMA Techniques

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 6, 2010

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I was looking forward to reading this book when it first appeared on the "to be released list" last year. Even after his loss to Rua (who is an absolute beast), I still wanted to find out more about Lyoto's techniques, both strengths and to some extent, weaknesses.
I am a fan of MMA and a former practitioner of full contact karate; hence, applying karate techniques to MMA seems like an interesting concept to me. Karatekas will readily recognize the strikes. In my opinion, point style karate practitioners can also benefit from the combinations used in this book. Take-downs, defenses, ground work (with basic submissions) and clinches are covered here as well. The pictures and the descriptions are nice and clear, which is a major bonus for this book.
That being said, I still think there is some room for improvements, which are probably in order for the next volume(s). It would be beneficial to see the basic strikes and more footwork with clear explanations (much like the Machida-do DVD series). Also, a little more on work-out regiment (stretches, cardio, strength training, etc) could add a lot of value to this series. There might be some flaws with this unique system (just like any other) but as it stands, Lyoto's hard work has given karate credence as a striking base for MMA.

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Machida Karate-Do Mixed Martial Arts Techniques

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2011

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This was a Christmas gift for my son who is into mixed martial arts. I had no idea what book to buy him as he just requested a MMA book. After reading all the reviews I selected this one. My son LOVED it!!! He has books by the same gentleman and did not know this one was out. It was truly a hit!! A home run!!!! All the reviews from people who had purchased this book were spot on!! My son is 29 and has been in martial arts for 23 years and has been in several competitions. Every good review about this book was accurate.

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Jeremy C Williams

Well Done manual for a Karateka transitioning into MMA

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 19, 2010

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Machida is known for his unorthodox style and Shotokan derived stance, this book covered much of that and shows how to put together solid combinations with the heart of Karate still in mind. A good find. Only critique, because of the importance of foot placement, I would've liked to see corresponding foot charts per photo... But thats asking a whole lot.

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Dulce

Wonderful Book!!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2010

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I purchased this book as a gift for my Machida-crazed boyfriend. It arrived well in time for his birthday and is in love with it! I had no idea how informative and well done this book was! Kind of makes me regret getting it as now my boyfriend wants to try all the moves he's reading about on me. Very impressed by this book and highly recommend it to anyone who's a martial arts fan.

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CL

The fact that it says "Karate" is way misleading. ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2018

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The fact that it says "Karate" is way misleading. Very few pages of karate. Most in take downs and grappling. If it would of said purely "MMA" then it would reflect the contents in the book.

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YamiYoshi

perfect for karate in mma

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2010

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well done and explained very well. easy to understand and to read. great book for mma

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Nathan L. Wilcox

The Dragon demystified

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2010

I've been looking forward to this book for a long long time. Victory Belt released their Machida DVD set well over a year ago. Well my review copy finally arrived and I'm pleased to say it's everything I expected.

Machida Karate-Do Mixed Martial Arts Techniques is your typical Victory Belt publication -- great photographs, crystal clear step-by-step explanations of each technique, good organization, color coded pages for easy reference, etc.

Most importantly they really seem to have figured out how to distill the most unique aspects of a fighter's style into a training method. For those of you who train and want to add a little bit of the undefeated UFC light heavyweight champ's patented elusive striking into your game, this is the book.

This promises to be the first of a two part series. The second book will focus on the pure Karate style of Machida where this book focuses on the techniques he applies to MMA.

Me personally, I don't train but I still find these books to be invaluable study guides to help me understand and appreciate what I'm seeing. Stand up techniques -- particularly footwork -- were for a long time a totally mysterious aspect of the game to me. Now, thanks to reading a goodly number of technical manuals including those by Fedor Emelianenko, Greg Jackson, Erich Krauss and Anderson Silva, I'm beginning to get a better handle on the art of footwork.

Machida's book is definitely a master's class on footwork. Literally every single striking technique illustrated in this book begins by stepping such that you have a clear positional advantage over your opponent. Just as Helio Gracie's innovative jiu jitsu system emphasized always seeking dominant position, Machida's approach to striking hinges entirely on being somewhere you can get a clean shot at your opponent and he can't reply in kind.

But for all of the subtlety and nuance of Machida's style, it's also a surprisingly brutal system. The strikes are designed to inflict injury and the combinations just up that ante. The sections on the Muay Thai clinch are especially brutal and illustrate that Machida Karate-do is a very pluralistic system that synthesizes useful techniques from a variety of arts besides karate, especially Muay Thai, jiu jitsu and sumo.

The book also includes a number of Machida's patented karate sweeps and trips which, if mastered, can give anyone a true "leg up" on the competition. Of all Machida's techniques, I think the sweeps and trips have the most potential to be widely adopted by more MMA fighters.

All in all, this is yet another excellent Victory Belt publication and I recommend it for all the Shoguns on your shopping list.

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S E JONES

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 9, 2013

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Excellent book. I studied Shotokan for over 10 years and this book seems to bring everything together nicely.
This book is also suitable for novices - with clear, well written instructions, supplemented by excellent photographs.

Twizzle

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 4, 2014

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Shishou Ken Miyagi-Sensei

same as the rest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2012

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The book is ok, but its not showing me anything different to the other MMA books I GOT. I was hoping for some more KARATE based techniques but it looked like MMA STUFF

All the MMA books seem to be similar to the famous stars doing fitness DVD's

Franck

Bon ouvrage généraliste sur les techniques de MMA

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on June 18, 2012

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Autant le dire tout de suite, ce livre n'est pas vraiment la transition du karaté Shotokan au MMA que j'attendais (un choix pour toucher un plus grand public?) Cependant, les karatékas ne seront pas dépaysés, loin de là...

Concernant le fait que le livre soit écrit en anglais, cela reste assez facile à comprendre. D'autant plus qu'il y a de nombreuses photos. C'est un des points forts de ce livre : elles sont très claires, prises sous plusieurs angles, bref rien à redire.

Pour ce qui est du contenu, c'est assez complet avec des chapitres consacrés au striking, clinch, travail au sol... Le chapitre striking est peut être le plus pauvre, ce qui est étonnant pour un combattant tel que Lyoto M. Une grosse partie est consacrée au sen no sen (attaque avant l'attaque) qu'il pratique assez peu à mon sens. De plus, les techniques qu'il présente impliquent un appel de la part de l'adversaire, faute que les combattants expérimentés ne commettent généralement pas.

Par contre, les parties clinch et sol sont beaucoup plus riches de mon point de vue (peut être aussi parce que mes lacunes sont là...)

En conclusion, ce livre reste assez bon et très instructif. Je recommande.

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はい

写真が多くて分かりやすいです！

Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on December 3, 2010

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旦那が松濤館流の空手をずっとやっていて、お手本用に買いました。全部英語だけど、写真があるから分かりやすいです!難を言えば、アメリカの本なので本のサイズが日本の本と違って大きめで、（かといってA4サイズではない）本棚の収まりが悪い！このシリーズのDVD5枚セットも、リージョンコートを読み込める、安めのDVDデッキを3千円くらいで買ってきて一所懸命見ています!この本を買うなら、DVDもお勧めです。amazon.comで売ってます。

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