Ted Gambordella
Författare till Fight for Your Life!: The Secrets of Street Fighting
Om författaren
Verk av Ted Gambordella
Mastering the Knife 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1948-02-22
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Kort biografi
- Author of 38 books and 42 DVD's, 1st Jiu Jitsu Black Belt in Texas, 1st Weapons Black Belt in Texas, and Louisiana, 1st Okinawan Karate Black Belt in Louisiana, 1st to promote students to black belt in weapons and jiu jistu in Texas, Louisiana; 1st jiu jitsu team in Louisiana and Texas,
1st Jiu Jitsu Black Belt at Louisiana State University, started first Jiu Jitsu club at LSU, produced 1st Karate Collegiate Championship tournament 1971, 1st author of book on Hard KI (chi), 1st person to bend knife on neck in demonstration, wrote the 1st Complete Martial Arts Weapons manual in 1976, best selling martial arts manual in history, still in print after 35 years; 1st martial arts author to entirely produce a book from writing, taking photos, editing, typesetting, layout and cover design and actually printing book on company printers using “plates and negative” not computer printers, wrote 1st book on using martial arts techniques in sports to prevent injuries, improve performance and develop a winning attitude. 1st Martial Arts black belt with a weekly TV show in America, 2 years on channel 11 DFW, voted “The Most Perfect Body in America 1980”, appeared on National TV 8 times with martial arts programs. Including Real People, Entertainment Tonight, Playboy Channel, Fox TV, Inside Edition, and dozens of local TV stations across Texas, and Louisiana; 1st Martial Arts Master to work with US Olympic committee training US Olympic athletes using martial arts techniques; 1st Jiu Jitsu demonstration at the Karate Olympics, US Karate Championship, Mardi Gras Nationals, Texas Karate Championships, Big D, and dozens of other tournaments. Featured in Black Belt Magazine, Inside Kung Fu, Martial Arts Business cover story. 1st American martial arts author of book on KI. 1st American author of karate weapons manual.
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Recensioner
The book is a basic manual on weapons. The book starts off strong with very good techniques with the knife (with the exception of attacking with them.) Mainly the self-defense applications. Dr. Gambordella coverage of the yawara, tonfa ad Jo is adequate. But his coverage from there on shows poor technique. From the basics of how to hold the nunchaku, Bo or sai are wrong.
If you where to hold the sai as is shown in combat or kumite, you would break your fingers. It appears that Dr. Gambordella is self taught with these last three weapons and has no practical experience.… (mer)
If you where to hold the sai as is shown in combat or kumite, you would break your fingers. It appears that Dr. Gambordella is self taught with these last three weapons and has no practical experience.… (mer)
The book is a basic manual on weapons. The book starts off strong with very good techniques with the knife (with the exception of attacking with them.) Mainly the self-defense applications. Dr. Gambordella coverage of the yawara, tonfa ad Jo is adequate. But his coverage from there on shows poor technique. From the basics of how to hold the nunchaku, Bo or sai are wrong.
Statistik
- Verk
- 20
- Medlemmar
- 66
- Popularitet
- #259,059
- Betyg
- 2.0
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 19
He's not bigger or stronger. And you can be just as mean as he is-especially if your life is on the line.
The difference is that he knows the secrets of street fighting. In Fight for Your Life!, Dr. Ted Gambordella shows you these secrets and instructs you on how to use them with lethal effectiveness. These are no-nonsense, practical techniques designed to beat street-wise punks a their own game.
Stop taking it, and start dishing it oiut-with the help of Fight for Your Life! The Secrets of Street Fighting.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1 Fighting techniques
2 Escapes adn counters
3 Close fighting and groiund fighting
4 Knife and club defenses
5 defenses for a woman
6 Multiple attacks
7 Tips… (mer)