No Holds Barred - Ultimate Guide to Fighting Submission Wrestling

Product Description

This instructional guide explains the origins of submission wrestling, the underlying fighting skill associated with such events as the Ultimate Fighting Championships and the King of the Cage. It explores its various offshoots and influences and features hundreds of photos to demonstrate techniques and training exercises. Rules and regulations regarding associated competitions, workout programs, and match etiquette are thoroughly discussed, and resources for further research are included. Full of self-defensive skills and tips that improve physical fitness, confidence, and mental toughness, this book starts the novice on the path to proper training and provides fundamental information for all skill levels.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #428137 in Books
* Published on: 2000-10-01
* Format: Illustrated
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 256 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author
Mark Hatmaker has 23 years of experience in the martial arts as well as boxing, wrestling, and Jiujitsu. He has produced several instructional videos, including Escape from Impossible Holds, Brutal Submissions, and Guard Submissions. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. Doug Werner is an author of sport and fitness instructional guides, including Boxer's Start-Up and Fighting Fit. He lives in San Diego, California.
Customer Reviews

A really poor grappling resource1
This is an interesting book. It's title is misleading, it has nothing to do with NHB, it is geared entirely to no gi submission grappling with no thoughts given to striking offense or defense. The author has no grappling competition experience, and it shows in the glaring holes and errors in his technique.

Basically, this would be a good book if you had no access to a real instructor, good Brazilian jiu jitsu books or tapes. There are a lot of technical flaws with the techniques he shows that would get them defeated by anyone with any grappling experience.

EX: His sidemount control section shows a wrestling style sidemount, with his hips high and away from his partner. Leaving his partner more than enough room to get a knee through to put him in guard. He does show how to prevent a person from getting guard, but his opponent is attempting to do this from flat on his back instead of a shrimp position. Basically, his defense worked on someone with no clue how to do it. A brazilian jiu jitsu student with more than a months experience wouldn't be stopped by this.

His guard section shows him laying flat on his back, which is one of the first things you are taught to NOT do in both Judo and brazilian jiu jitsu. His in guard position is the sprawl, which leaves you unable to move to defend any submission or sweep attempts, and leaves you open to being choked, armlocked and having your back taken. Oddly enough, he doesn't use this position at all in his guard passing section. He uses a standard in guard postition, but doesn't go into details on it.

His takedown section shows a double leg takedown. He bends at the waist when he hits his partner at waist height. This would get you sprawled one by anyone with more than a months experience. It also makes lifting your opponent harder by making your back do most of the work in a good morning type motion, instead of getting underneath your opponent in a proper penetration step and lifting with your legs.
His high single leg attempt again has him bending forward and reaching for the leg, instead of penetrating into your opponent and taking the leg. His method is simple to defeat by simply stepping back, or pushing on him.
His throws make no mention of the kuzushi (off balancing) needed to make them work properly, and he has a LOT of space between himself and his opponent for his opponent to counter or escape.

His submission section has a lot of errors in it as well. Most of them are sloppy, with a lot of space in them for counters and escapes.

Basically, the book looks like he taught himself to grapple from books or poor videos so that he didn't pick up on the details that make things work well and never had the opportunity to try them out against skilled grapplers so that he could fix his mistakes.

Overall, this book has so many technical errors and problems with it that I highly recommend AGAINST it. Anyone buying this book without the benefit of proper grappling instruction will have many errors in their game that they won't know how to fix. Anybody with proper grappling instruction will catch the errors in the book and not learn anything new.

There are many books on the market today written by world class grapplers and trainers showing the techniques that they use against world class competition. I would recommend getting one written by an accomplished grappler, and not this one.

very good book5
mark hatmaker did it again. another very good book on NHB. mark is a credible author who can share his knowledge easily and practical. a 5 star rating was given for a very good author and NHB practitioner. hoping for more books to come

Well done5
Mark Hatmaker is an intelligent, articulate teacher of western fighting disciplines. I got so much from this book that I ordered the others in the series as well. Although it is a good overview and introduction to various techniques for beginners, Mark covers enough of the details and nuances to make the information useful to experienced grapplers as well. He conveys the information effectively in written format, and his videos are good, too.