Championship Streetfighting: Boxing as a Martial Art
By Ned Beaumont
Book Review by Alain Burrese
Ned Beaumont does an exceptional job with Championship Streetfighting: Boxing as a Martial Art.
In the beginning he outlines why boxing is effective for
real fights. His argument for the
effectiveness of boxing is right on the money and his examples illustrate this
perfectly. He then moves to
principles of the ring and street and the difference between gloves and bare
fists. This chapter is very
important because
Chapter four discusses the physics and psychology of power punching. If you want to punch hard, this chapter is a must. And who doesn’t want to know how to punch hard?
The next chapters talk about stance, guard, straight punches, hooks, and uppercuts. These chapters are very good for describing boxing basics. These are the skills you must learn to make boxing work. And if you learn them well, boxing will work!
Chapter eight shows you how to put those skills together with combinations and related matters. Then chapter nine teaches defense and how not to get hit.
Chapter ten goes into fouls and other dirty tricks.
Things you would not do in the ring, but that can be very useful in
self-defense situations. And
self-defense is
The last chapter is on training, roadwork, gymwork, and
floorwork.
The is a very good book, and one of the things I liked most
about it was that