No Holds Barred Fighting: Savage Strikes: The Complete Guide to Real World Striking for NHB Competition and Street Defense
By Mark Hatmaker and Doug Werner
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No Holds Barred Fighting - Mark Hatmaker
No Holds Barred Fighting:
Savage Strikes
The Complete Guide to Real World Striking
for NHB Competition and Street Defense
Mark Hatmaker
Tracks Publishing
San Diego, California
Photography by
Doug Werner
No Holds Barred Fighting:
Savage Strikes
The Complete Guide to Real World Striking
for NHB Competition and Street Defense
Mark Hatmaker
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.
Copyright © 2004 by Doug Werner
Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication
Hatmaker, Mark.
No holds barred fighting: savage strikes: the
complete guide to real world striking for NHB
competition and street defense / Mark Hatmaker;
photography by Doug Werner.
p. cm.
Includes index.
LCCN 2004106288
ISBN 1884654207
1. Hand-to-hand fighting–Training. 2. Wrestling.
I. Title.
GV1111. H38 2004 796.81
QBI33-2047
I humbly and respectfully dedicate this volume to Paul Maslak for setting me on the path to empiricism regarding combat analysis.
To the master pugilists who knew more than a trick or two, including Jack Dempsey Harry Greb, Stanley Ketchel, Dan Hodge, Jimmy Wilde, Gene Tunney and Mickey Walker.
To Doug Werner for allowing me to share in print some of what I’ve learned.
And to my grandfather, George Washington Goins, who hung a homemade heavy bag from the rafters of his barn and told stories of prizefighters during the day.
My respect for him, his amazing strength well into his 60s, and his love of pugilism influenced my admiration for the game as he knew it.
Acknowledgements
Phyllis Carter for proofing and editing.
Aisha Buxton for production.
Students and teachers past and present for making every day a learning opportunity.
Warning label
No holds barred fighting includes contact and can be dangerous. Use proper equipment and train safely. Practice with restraint and respect for your partners. Drill for fun, fitness and to improve skills. Do not fight with the intent to do harm.
Contents
Preface
1. Stance, footwork, upper body mobility and rolling a fist
NHB arsenal
2. Straight boxing arsenal
3. Insertion shots
4. Elbow work
5. Elbows as inserts
6. Low blows
7. Straight self-defense strikes
8. Head butts
9. Clinch inserts
10. Clinch breakers
11. Leg work
12. Knees
13. Clinch knees
NHB striking defense
14. Straight boxing defense
15. Elbow defenses
16. Head butt defense
17. Knee defense
18. Kick defense
19. Pick offs
20. Ground ’n’ pound
21. Combinations
22. Drilling
Resources
Index
Developing the complete NHB fighter — The NHB athlete has to balance ballistic assaults with concerns about an opponent’s incoming strikes and takedown shots and perhaps the subsequent ground game.
Preface
Welcome to the third volume of No Holds Barred (NHB) fighting. The first book was an introduction to the grappling game and provided the fundamentals. The second book built on that base to move you toward constructing intelligent offense and defense chains. This volume provides the nuts and bolts needed to formulate an intelligent, high-percentage striking game taking into consideration the dangers and challenges in this encompassing combat sport. It also explores the arsenal needed to play this game as well as the hows and whys - the strategies, science and drills tied together with the theme of striking not only as a striker but as a grappler.
I’m a strong opponent of mindless cross-training. You shouldn’t think you have covered all bases by grappling training on Tuesdays and Thursdays, going to the boxing gym on Wednesdays and Muay Thai class on Saturdays. All that does is expose you to three different sports.
The NHB athlete has to balance ballistic assaults with concerns about your opponent’s incoming strikes and takedown shots and perhaps the subsequent ground game. A sport that encompasses that much has to move beyond mere cross-training and toward unity of information and concepts to provide a more streamlined and intelligent base for the NHB athlete.
With that in mind, don’t use this guide as a boxing primer or a compendium of Muay Thai techniques. As much as I respect these two effective sports, that pure mix isn’t here. (In the Resources section, I recommend some solid stand-alone texts). What you will find is a distillate of Western striking styles applied specifically to the expansive demands of the NHB game. By keeping in mind this specific approach, I sincerely believe that you will move more rapidly toward athletic optimum.
Finally, there are a few sections on theory including one on physics. Please don’t ignore this material. I believe it is perhaps even more important than the arsenal section. Without a true understanding of what goes into a punch, you will throw only something that looks like a punch the rest of your life without getting to the heart of the matter.
A lead-in about leads
Right side forward or left side forward? Power side forward or power side back? Orthodox or southpaw? The answers have probably been decided if you are currently involved in a striking sport. Usually leads are taught by a coach or instructor or what you stepped into naturally after years of observing the striking arts. For those who haven’t decided, or for those who wonder why everything in this book is demonstrated from a right side forward lead, read on.
John L. Sullivan
The origins of lead choices illuminate what we see today. In the early days of boxing, the left lead forward was the rule because the majority of human beings are right-handed and use the right arm more frequently. The early pugilists were not known for finesse, and the game was more one of power and cutting the opponent with ripping shots. Since the jab was nonexistent (yep, that’s right, no jab) the game was posting (stiff-arming) an opponent with a lead hand and letting go with straight rights and roundhouse swings with the rear hand. Rear hand placement allowed fighters to wind up and really put some hurt in their punches.
When the forward-thinking James J.