The Formidable Fighter Series is a series of booklets for martial artists desiring to learn the concepts that create formidable fighters in the training hall, competition arena, and street. Each booklet is between 5,000 and 10,000 words in length and includes fighting scenarios, training tips, and illustrations. The Bodyweight Challenge, the eighth booklet in the series, is approximately 60 pages long and deals particularly with how to use the weight of your body, whether you weigh a little or a lot, to increase the power in your techniques and bring you a step closer to victory. Since the advice is not style specific but explores the underlying concepts of personal combat, it is applicable to students of most martial styles.The Bodyweight Challenge includes discussions and exercises that will help you take advantage of your weight and momentum in stand-up fighting and ground combat, whether in the offensive or defensive position. It also examines which weapons best lend themselves to fighting techniques dealing with mass and momentum rather than speed. Know how to play the cards you are dealt. Martial arts techniques are not complicated; it is the surrounding situations and how we think about them that complicate how we use them. If you follow the instruction and tips in the Formidable Fighter Series, you will learn how to develop your physical strength and mental tenacity and triumph as a fighter in the training hall, ring, and street.Formidable Fighter: The Complete Series, a compilation of all previously published electronic books in this series, is now available to a great reduction in price in both electronic and print format. The book is a variation of the previously published book (now out of print), Combat Fitness for the Elite Female Martial Artist, also by Martina Sprague, revised to be particularly suitable also for the male student.
