Footwork Wins Fights: The Footwork of Boxing, Kickboxing, Martial Arts & MMA (Win Fights Series)

Some writers have one good idea and pad an entire book with it. Others have excellent information, but don’t include enough of it for you to put it together by the end of the book. And then there are writers like David Christian who give you heaps of useful, actionable info. Take your time with this book. Play around with the contents, find out what works best for you. You could happily spend years mastering all the ideas here. If you enjoy watching martial arts fights or boxing, this will also give you a deeper appreciation for what’s going on.

I love this book. Plenty of detail and photographs. It's given me lots of new techniques to work on and helped me brush up on a few others. Also the knowledge in the book has made watching combat sports even more interesting by being able to identify strengths and weakness's in the combatants techniques.

I found it a useful reference however I did found some of the photos difficult to understand at some points.

Slowly been chewing my way through this. Well organised with clear diagrams. Definitely a lot of food for thought in this. Really opened my eyes to a broader way to look at footwork and movement. If you're on the fence about this purchase, just dig right in. Cant wait for his next book already!

Absolute quality, good for people who are fighting and looking to enhance there knowledge in the sweet science. would totally recommend.

Excellent book. I have been doing martial arts for years and never knew half of this stuff. Highly recommended.

My son in law really is enjoying this book

Brilliant buy

the images are not always easy to understand and the book is not well structured.

I first found the author of this book, David Christian, on his YouTube channel (ModernMartialArtist) where he provides in-depth breakdowns of fights and fight strategy. His YouTube content is phenomenal and this book does not disappoint. It provides the reader with a breakdown of the fundamentals of movement, footwork techniques, fighting strategy, gives example of what positions are superior and which are less so, and finally provides examples of basic and advanced footwork sequences which you can copy. All of this comes with great photos and fight examples which you can pull up on YouTube. I was able to directly apply the techniques taught in this book immediately and with great effect. Learning is a long curve, but it was great to immediately see some small results straight off the bat.

Very big book with diagrams with in-depth explanations of footwork.

Coming from heavily martial footwork dominated schools, this is an awesome work of research and time on the discipline of Martial Footwork. When most think of Martial Footwork they tend to gravitate that thinking of styles like Capoeira, Baguazhang, Aikido, Silat, Shaolin, and others. Boxing, Kickboxing, Savate, Western Fencing and now MMA also possess tactical and strategic footwork. However, only a small fraction of practitioners have mixed and closed the gap between the two. As Sun Tzu would state that everything is of a duel nature, it important if your an Eastern Martial Practitioner to know the methods of a Western Martial Practitioner, and vice versa. This would be the first step in Sun Tzu's system "Laying Plans," in which you would discuss opponent Philosophy, Climate, Leadership, Ground, and Methods to see where you can win and where you can't. This text shows you exactly that. It discusses philosophy of Western Martial Footwork, "Climate" which is really trends is given by showing or providing references to each techniques/ patterns taken from real fights, Leadership shows how the energy is led when applying the patterns/ techniques, Ground talks specifically about the Ring dynamics, and Methods are the patterns/ techniques themselves with a chapter dedicated on ways to enhance those methods. As a strategist, and adept of the martial way this is an awesome book to add to one's collection of knowledge; to digest, to assimilate, and foster evolved growth in your combatives game and strategic thought. To the author, you mentioned that you put many hours into the crafting and shaping of this text, well It definitely shows. Thank you for your contribution to the Martial World and I look forward to any future work you might be contemplating.

Imaginad un trabajo de instituto escrito con un procesador de textos al que se le han insertado fotos de pésima calidad y se ha impreso con una impresora de inyección de tinta en blanco y negro (a color la portada) con la tinta al 50 o al 60%. A todo esto, que no es poco, añádele una cantidad incontable de erratas que te hacen perder el ritmo y la comprensión de la lectura. Estoy hablando de la edición original en inglés en tapa blanda. Creo que ya he dado motivos suficientes para justificar el título de mi reseña. Es una pena que un libro con una información tan completa y detallada y al que se le nota un trabajo de investigación bastante laborioso haya sido editado de una forma tan inmisericorde. Pese a todo esto, mi intención (siempre y cuando no encuentre mejor alternativa) es seguir comprando el resto de libros del mismo autor ya que la información contenida en estos -una vez descifrada- sirve de manual de consulta y guía para entrenador@s y/o quienes practican deportes de combate; de ahí mis tres estrellas.