Solo Training
The Martial Artist's Home Training Guide
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Publisher Description
Loren W. Christensen shows you over 300 ways you can add variety to your daily martial arts training routine. Whether you’re a student looking for fun new solo drills to spice up your home training or an instructor in search of new ways to pump up your classes, this book has what you need. It is an incredible collection of drills, techniques, and exercises that will take your workouts to the next level.
Organize your solo workouts to get maximum results from even the shortest training sessions.
Improve your speed and power with dozens of inside tips and tricks.
Beat boredom and get excited about your solo training sessions.
Become a well-rounded fighter by adding essential skills your instructor may not be teaching you.
Safely experiment with new techniques to find your ideal personal style of training.
Get an edge on your opponents with training methods that will elevate your skills in the ring and on the street.
Not only will you learn enough new training strategies and methods to keep you busy for years, but Loren W. Christensen’s no-nonsense writing style will get you up and moving, even on the days you’d rather skip your solo workout. This book is packed with insight, technique, and motivation. It will become your favorite training partner.
Customer Reviews
The Worst Stereotypes About Martial Arts Come to Life (with some photos, but not the logical ones)
I just can’t with this book anymore. If you are into martial arts for the sport, the exercise, the community - if you’re more into forms than sparring - this book is absolutely NOT written for you. If you’re into martial arts to win fist fights (street fights is Christensen’s preferred term), to beat people up, to find new, unique, inventive, and technical ways to hurt people, then this is just the book you need to do all those things better than ever before!
He repeatedly and at length waxes poetic about all the fist fights he got into as a police officer, even advocating dealing with a person who is upset by elbowing them repeatedly in the face (complete with pictures). This is like a manual on everything that is wrong with police officers and everything that makes good and decent cops look like monsters. It’s also a manual on all the negative stereotypes about martial arts and martial artists and how to make them seem like a reality.
Some of the drills assume you have martial arts equipment in your home that smaller martial arts schools don’t even always have. Some of the exercises and/or techniques make no sense as they are described (how do you do a front kick starting with your knee facing the ground, your foot “as close to your rear as you can get it,” pointing at your target but still a FRONT kick - this isn’t even physically possible unless you’ve dislocated your hips and can somehow kick through your body?) and they have no photos (but we get photos of him elbowing a person who is upset - good choice). To make this entire thing even more nonsensical, no videos are available of these techniques even in the vast world of YouTube, so are they really that great? YouTube has dozens (hundreds, thousands, innumerable) tutorials on every move ever used in an MMA fight, but it doesn’t have a single video of an “upside down front kick” or a “cobra kick.”
This book is a total waste of time and money for any real martial artist. Ask for home drills from your instructors or from martial artists online. This book is a nightmare for any real martial artist.