Slack Jack. Elementary Striking. Strategies For Boxing, Kickboxing And MMA

Jack Slack, 2012. — 185 p.This book began as an answer to many of the questions I have received since I began writing about my experiences and giving analysis of professional fights at my blog, www.FightsGoneBy.com, and at the major combat sports site, Bloody Elbow. I am by no means the best coach in the world (I hope one day I will be, but that's another story), but all of the techniques and strategies laid out in this book have been taught to me, practised and utilized in gyms and dojos around the world during my travels. Initially I responded to all of the questions I received, but over time there became far too many, and many of the same problems came up again and again. That was when I decided that it was time to write a book outlining what I consider to be the basic principles of fighting. While this book will have sections on the mechanics of movements for the absolute beginner, I do not want anyone to think that this is just another book that breaks down the individual strikes and nothing else. One of the major aims of Elementary Striking is to give a series of techniques and strategies based in science and rationality, which will allow the novice striker to begin closing the gap that more advanced strikers will have built with experience and through trial and error. Elementary Striking is divided into three parts; Fundamentals, Intangibles and Strategies. Fundamentals outlines the basic mechanics involved in throwing each strike. Some techniques are treated in more detail than others, and this should reflect their importance – for example the jab will receive a great deal of attention, while the right hook will receive less. The second part, Intangibles, focuses on those techniques which aren't really taught in gyms but rather learned through hours of sparring – I feel that laying them out in print will speed up the process of learning them, but you shouldn't expect to be using them to full effect right away.