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# Bare-knuckle Boxer's Companion: Learning How to Hit Hard and Train Tough from the Early Boxing Masters Paperback – January 1, 2009

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## Customer Reviews

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    Great book
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2023*

I have been in Asian martial arts for forty years. I have studied HEMA for the last fifteen. This book is excellent for understanding the basics of western pugilism. I use this book as the primer for studying other books from Victorian and Edwardian pugilists. If you want a good book for learning how to survive a street fight... this is it.

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    Essential All-in-One Resource, Covering the Entire Bare-Knuckle Era
  

*by Z***E on Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2016*

Consider this the Rosetta Stone for bare knuckle boxing, packaged in a modern instructional. The authors conducted painstaking research, and employed diverse backgrounds in historical studies and martial arts, to assemble a complete volume. When I say complete, the book covers techniques, counters, drills and training, with clear depictions of everything described. It provides a bibliography, and even features a section -- with further bibliography -- to recognize and neutralize conflict to avoid violence. The latter often is neglected in technique-focused self-defense books.Other books provide more on the history. In that sense, this book is syncretic. "The Boxer's Companion" combines techniques from both the Broughton and London Prize Ring eras, as well as some culled from earlier manuals. The historical delineation is less important for the purposes of this text than the techniques in play. For instance, the book details the "cross-buttocks" (hip throw) and the back trips used by pugilists when older rules permitted grappling. The grappling is less refined that what you see in Judo or Russian Sambo (grappling-only competition). It mirrors the quick-and-dirty lifts, trips, and drop-throws from Chinese Sanda. The reason is clear: It's harder to grab a skilled opponent who is hammering you with bare fists. Low kicks also receive some treatment, more prevalent in the Broughton era and often deriving from "purring" (shin-kicking).Why is this a Rosetta Stone? It reconciles terms and clearly presents actions described in older manuals. I suggest reading this book ahead of, say, the treatise by bare knuckle champion Daniel Mendoza. The older texts simply make more sense after reading this book. In my studies, I read at least a dozen of them, only to have "The Bare-Knuckle Boxer's Companion" illuminate techniques obscured by arcane language and absence of illustrations.The authors use a classic, erect bare-knuckle stance. This is an excellent choice, considering the bob-and-weave stance of Daniel Mendoza was a rarity at the time. Bladed stances and modified cross-guards also were used. The authors' choice reflects one commonly taught throughout the old texts -- similar to a standard boxing stance taught today, then modified to reflect personal styles. Among current-era fighters, contrast the Mexican style of Gennady Golovkin, the armadillo defenses of Archie Moore and Ken Norton, the Philly Shell of Mayweather, and the break-all-the-rules-and-succeed stance of the early Roy Jones.To complete your studies, I recommend buying Kirk Lawson's "Banned from Boxing," which emphasizes pugilistic grappling in exquisite detail (sold through Lulu.com). For multi-media depictions, you can see "Gentleman Jim" Jeffries' holdover techniques from that era in a friendly sparring session with Gene Tunney on Youtube. There's an old-fashioned uppercut ("rising sun punch" in some karate styles), and a long swing to the kidney with the top of the fist. I also highly recommend the late Carl Cestari's "Bare-Knuckle Boxing" DVD, available at carlcestari.com. Cestari's DVD has a great tutorial on the drop-step, footwork, and a 10-minute section on swings and chops not available in the "Boxer's Companion." While the chops and backfist are illustrated, other swings and the "archaic" uppercut -- a nasty sucker punch -- don't appear in the book. See also Daniel Mendoza's "The Modern Art of Boxing," Edmund Price's "Physical Culture and Self-Defense" (1867), Billy Edwards' "Art of Boxing and Manual of Training" (1888), Robert Fitzsimmons' "Physical Culture and Self-Defense" (1901) and James J. Corbett's "Scientific Boxing" (1912). The latter books by champions of the gloved era offer techniques and styles that predate it.

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    A text that is useful for both historical and practical content in relation to the martial arts.
  

*by M***H on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2015*

Interesting book for those who train in martial arts/combat sports and who have some street fighting experience. Bare knuckle boxing was much more practical for the streets than modern boxing (though it is still good) because it had few rules and was much more dirty than even modern MMA. I like the use of classic European texts in bare-knuckle boxing as a basis for what they are teaching in this book, as few people know much about bare-knuckle boxing and its practicality as a combat-style. It is perhaps just viewed as boxing without gloves (and some modern competitions are like this), but traditional bare-knuckle boxing was much more close to real combat and consequently much more deadly (arguments for the the cumulative effects of damage to the brain from the softened gloved punches in boxing aside). Fighters were allowed many punches that are illegal in boxing--hammer fists, backfists, etc. A fighter was able to clinch, use certain locks, use certain throws, use headbutts, trips, and often use kicks and elbows. It was much closer to the hand-to-hand combat of the street than modern combat sports are today, and thus provides a great basis for practical combat training methodology grounded in a Western tradition. I liked the book, but felt that many of the illustrated panels that dealt with drills involving deflections, blocks, etc. could have been simplified or eliminated. I was surprised to find that many of the moves to be found in the textbook were similar to the style of fighting I have been trained in in CHA-3 Kenpo, which originated in the '40's with our grandmaster being a boxer. I am not sure how this bare-knuckle influence was retained, but there is a lot that we do in training that is exactly from this textbook, and different in many ways from modern gloved boxing. An interesting read, though one can skim much of it, and one has to have had solid foundational training to actually understand it.I actually read "Championship Street Fighting" about a month ago, and just finished a biography of John L. Sullivan, (as well as that graphic novel on the famous 18th century British bare knuckle boxer Mendoza, etc.), so it was interesting to me, though it has very real limitations and could have been expanded and developed more, I guess.It has to be said that the historical material in the text was integrated in in an extremely professional manner, with enough to give a context going from ancient times through the medieval and all the way from the bare knuckle age to the modern, while never being excessive. The allusions to and examples from texts like Sigmund Ringeck's "Ringen" with a set of techniques called "Mortschlag," or murder strikes, for example, are very interesting (and very much like CHA-3 Kenpo).I have to add as an afterthought (and I added another star because of this), that the chapter on self-defense, for its brevity, was actually very good, and that there were many tips on training and conditioning that were very practical as well-from training the hands to punch to building the complete body strength a fighter, not a bodybuilder with largely "cosmetic" muscles, needs to be able to fight efficiently.

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