First Book: Table of Contents

Hey folks,

As you might have noticed, it's a damn slow month in the combat sports world unless you like reality shows. As I personally don't care for The Ultimate Fighter, I haven't been keeping up my regular output of articles but it has given me time to work out the creases in my first ebook.

Now titled Advanced Striking: Tactics of Kickboxing, Boxing and MMA Masters, my first book will be out in 2 - 3 weeks time. I might not have properly described the book in my previous posts about it; it's purpose is equally to serve as an instructional in to some of the tactics employed by combat sports finest which haven't been touched on in other instructional material, and also to serve as a viewers guide.

Combat sports fans are seriously let down by commentators and analysts who work in vague terms and cliches. Every football, hockey or basketball fan has an understanding of plays, formations and substitutions, and is able to develop their own educated opinion on matters. Boxing, kickboxing and MMA fans can only say "fighter x was too strong", "he should've worked the jab" or "he used crazy angles" without any real understanding of why one fighter is able to win more consistently than another. I hope my first book will give fans the ability to watch a fight and see the tactical maneuvers that make Roy Jones Jr, Badr Hari and Anderson Silva seem like demi-gods.

So without further patter, here is the table of contents of my upcoming book: Advanced Striking: Tactics of Kickboxing, Boxing and MMA Masters


Cheers,
Jack

Table of Contents

Introduction 

The Purpose of This Book 

For the Boxing, Kickboxing or MMA Student 

For the Fan 

How to Watch a Fight 

A Note on Photos 

Badr Hari – The Golden Boy of K-1

Right Straight to the Body 

Head – Body – Head – Head 

Drawing Hook 

Ernesto Hoost – Mr. Perfect 

3 – 4 – 3 Low Kick 

Counter Low Kick 

Knee Spike 

The Diaz Brothers – Machismo Powered Volume Punchers

Lever Punch or “Doubling Up” 

Drawing Parry 

Window Stance 

Floyd Mayweather Jr. - The Pretty Boy 

Elbow Block 

Hook and Clutch 

Body Jab 

The Mayweather Cross Counter Variation 

Shoulder Roll Counters 

Buakaw Por. Pramuk – The White Lotus 

Probing Lead and Teep 

Step Up Knee 

Frankie Edgar – The Undersized Answer 

Jabbing to Knee Tap 

Knee Tap to Liver Kick 

Outside Low Kick 

Edgar Pivot 

Junior dos Santos - Cigano 

Hands Low Stance 

Body Straight Counter

Left Hook – Right Uppercut 

Andy Hug – The Blue Eyed Samurai

Hug Tornado

Axe Kick 

Round Kick – Rear Straight 

Sugar Ray Robinson – Boxing's Smoothest Fighter 

'Operation Left Hook' 

Safety Lead 

Shoe Shine Flurries 

Anderson Silva – The Spider at the Center of the Middleweight Web

Southpaw Takedown Defense

Pursuing Right Hook

Front Snap Kick

Back Elbow

Outside Low Kick Trap

Inside Low Kick Trap

Alistair Overeem – The Strongest in Seven Billion

The Cross Counter

'The Uberknee'

Lunging Right Hand

Stepping Lead Uppercut

Fedor Emelianenko – The Last Emperor

Casting Punch

Right Straight – Left Uppercut – Left Hook

Jab and Sprawl 

Zulu

Inside Hand Trap

Joe Louis – The Brown Bomber

Jab – Left Hook – Right Hook

Braddock KO

Back-Step Jab – Uppercut – Left Hook

Jersey Joe Walcott – The Savviest Man in Boxing

Side Steps

Cakewalk

'The Perfect Punch' 

Manny Pacquiao – The Saviour of Boxing 

The Hatton Side Step 

Double Left Straight 

Weaving Right Hook 

B.J. Penn – The Prodigy 

Slipping Counter Jab 

Sean Sherk Running Combination 

Open Guard Cross Counter 

Jack Johnson – The Galvaston Giant 

Leaping Jab into the Clinch 

The Jack Johnson Uppercut 

Underhook Left Hook 

Roy Jones Jr. - Mr Unstoppable 

Right Lead Stance 

Step Back Lead Uppercut

Step Back Right Straight

Upper Arms Defense 

Jerome Le Banner – The Hercules of K-1 

Lead Low Kick 

Lead Low Counter 

'The Millennium KO' 

Giorgio Petrosyan – The Southpaw Doctor of Muay Thai

Jab – Pull – Lead Hook

Jab – Step Back – Cross Counter 

Southpaw Knee Strike 

The Petrosyan Shift