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Manufacturer: Turtle Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.83
EAN: 9781880336823
ISBN: 1880336820
Label: Turtle Press
Manufacturer: Turtle Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2003-10
Publisher: Turtle Press
Studio: Turtle Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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Whether you want to box for fitness or competition, Boxing: The American Martial Art is an excellent guide to getting started. Professional boxing coach and trainer R Michael Onello has created a 12-week, step-by-step boxing course that can be followed at home or in the gym. Begin with the thorough boxing conditioning program designed to tone and strengthen your entire body, with a special emphasis on the abs, chest and arm muscles. From Lesson One, you'll learn stance and movement, defensive tactics and a simple method of wrapping your hands to protect them during training. As you work through the twice-weekly lessons, you'll learn the jab, straight right, uppercut and hook, then practice them alone and in combinations to increase your punching speed, accuracy and power. The step-by-step lesson format guides you through the same drills used by professional boxing trainers and includes specifics like the number of reps, the type of equipment to practice on, strategic advice and key points to pay attention to as you progress. Once you've got the basics down, get together with a sparring partner to work on the offence-defence drills, counter-punching and putting your new skills to work in sparring practice. The lessons wrap up with advice on creating a rotating 12-week training schedule by introducing more advanced training concepts and variations on the workouts. Also included is a chapter for trainers and coaches, including sample program handouts and training advice.
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Summary: Very poorly organized, overly basic
Comment: Don't be fooled by the title of this book. It is not a twelve week boxing course. It is an unintelligible hodgepodge of various boxing training techniques and descriptions of basic punches thrown together in an utterly disorganized fashion. There is no "program" at all in this book. No one could learn anything useful about boxing from this. It just describes the punches and a few simple boxing workout routines in a disjointed and very cursory way. The "routines", as such, are so elementary as to be useless. Just telling the reader to practice a jab, for instance, does not make a "program". I have to believe it was self-published, because no editor would let this pass muster. It reads like a series of unconnected chapters, with one describing a jab, another a hook, etc.
I guess if you were from Mars and had never seen a boxing match or had seen a boxing gym, you would learn a little, but that's pretty much all it would be good for. They actually show you a photo of a heavy bag, in case you have no earthly idea what it is. A complete waste of fifteen bucks. It makes me wonder if the other positive reviews are legitimate.
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Summary: Straightforward & simple approach that produces real skills
Comment: This book works. It lays down a solid foundation. The exercises and practice drills continually produce and reinforce positions that the practitioner will appreciate later on. Its subtle but it will become quite apparent IF one does exactly as the book says. A good place to start.
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Summary: The best how to box book available
Comment: The American Martial Art is the most comprehensive boxing book now available. It covers all the basic punches,and defenses. However, I enjoyed the sugggested workouts covering the heavy bag work,shadow boxxing and counterpunching. No other book I have seen covers counterpunching in any detail.This book offers several counterpunch workouts. Anyone one who puts in the time and effort and completes the 12 week course offered in The American Martial Art, will become a much better boxer. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Basic Introduction to a Great Sport / Art
Comment: The book gives a basic outline of the great American art of self-defense, Boxing. The author introduces the foundation to the necessary basics to train and compete, if desired. Yet, boxing is a hands on sport that must be physically executed to truly learn. A book can serve as a guide or to attempt to enlighten one to the basics, but without a coach or sparring partner it can never be understood.
The recent trend to train in the exercises of a boxer has gained popularity because it is one of the toughest sports, if not the toughest, to obtain to appropriate amount of fitness in order to safely compete.
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Summary: Just another wantabe book
Comment: This is a very basic book meant mostly for the beginner. There are many other books out there which will take the up and comming boxer well beyond the info in this book.
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