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Product Description Randy "The Natural" Couture is the most respected and celebrated MMA combatant in the history of the UFC. A UFC Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight World Champion, and a UFC Hall of Famer, Randy Couture's reputation and fighting style are among the best in the world.
Now, with Wrestling for Fighting: The Sport of Mixed Martial Arts, Couture presents the techniques and strategies that allowed him to devastate the world s best strikers and grapplers time and time again. His unique fighting system, a mix of martial arts, wrestling, boxing and jiu-jitsu, is broken down clearly and concisely for amateurs and seasoned veterans alike. Couture also includes important information on creating fight game plans, and a variety of training tips you won t find anywhere else.
Knucklepit.comDecember 10, 2008 WRESTLING for FIGHTING by Randy Couture with Erich Krauss & Glen Cordoza (Victory Belt)
Marc Wickert October 31, 2008 www.knucklepit.com
Wrestling for Fighting is jam-packed with powerhouse coaching from one of MMA's most successful gladiators.
Randy `The Natural' Couture has blazed more boundaries than any other fighter on the planet, including holding the UFC Heavyweight Championship Title, then the UFC Light-Heavyweight Title, before snatching back the UFC Heavyweight Title in swashbuckling fashion.
Now 45 years of age (another boundary crossed), Randy is putting his UFC World Heavyweight Title on the line against Brock Lesnar, and most critics are tipping The Natural to take his belt home on November 15.
In Wrestling for Fighting Randy Duane Couture splits his book into three sections: Wrestling, Greco and Wrestling for Fighting. And this Bobby Fischer of MMA provides his readers/students with hands-on tutorage. From the start, Randy makes you feel like he's right there in your corner. When he's explaining how to set up your opponent, Couture whispers in your ear, "I'll send you along this path by demonstrating the basic ways to tie-up an opponent, and then showing how those tie-ups can be used in tandem with movement to set up your various takedowns."
Randy also keeps his students in the loop by running through all his moves and then constantly referring to when these moves were used in past UFCs by himself and other MMA stars.
Although the title refers to wrestling, The Natural also covers his cage tactics, g'n'p-ing, and his legendary `dirty boxing' techniques.
A masterpiece by MMA's mastermind.
Outstanding Book On Wrestling For MMA!October 20, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Randy has put together this book in much the same way that he put together his MMA career, brilliantly!
I have read through this book many times and really am having a difficult time finding anything really wrong with this book. Sure you could henpeck it to death with trivial inconsequential things, but really to what point.
This book was very well done and the layout is really quite remarkable. I really like the fact that Randy and his opponent are dressed in opposing colored shorts and shirts, which makes it a lot easier to distinguish between each of them and some of the moves that are being demonstrated in a lot of the photographs. It is also quite helpful that the photographs are all in color and printed on glossy paper.
Randy takes you through a wide variety of wrestling moves and situations that you will undoubtedly find yourself in when competing in MMA competitions and does so with the utmost professionalism and instructive ability that one can get from reading a book. Not quite the same as live one-on-one instruction, but it is pretty darn close.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in wrestling and not just those involved in MMA. You definitely get your monies worth!
Shawn Kovacich Martial Artist/Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series.
randy is not even a top fighterOctober 10, 2008 0 out of 13 found this review helpful
randy and his book is not great he is more hype than anything his record of 16-8 is not impressive like this book i dont think he is a top fighter at all and the other millions of people world wide think the same as i do ,so its up to you if you want this but not recommended.
Wrestling for Fighting: the natural WaySeptember 28, 2008 A well written opening summary of Randy's early life and career, accompanied by informative and excellently illustrated techniques that can easily be learned by all those eager to follow and benefit from Randy's years of experience, both in the ring, and in the Octagon. The illustrations are all in color - and should present no difficulty for aspiring students of wrestling and the sport of mixed martial arts. Randy explains the difference between freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling, and explains how his Greco Roman wrestling background served advantageously in his Octagon bouts.
It is worthSeptember 3, 2008 Very good book for a intermediate MMA practitioner. You will not waste your time and money.
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