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. Gross vs. Fine Motor Skills, the twelfth booklet in the series, is approximately 45 pages long and deals particularly with how to manage the stress of combat on the street when your life or safety are seriously threatened. Since the advice is not style specific but explores the underlying concepts of personal combat, it is applicable to students of most martial styles.
Gross vs. Fine Motor Skills includes discussions and exercises on how to use techniques that are uncomplicated and easy to apply under stress, such as low kicks and grabs to larger joints. It also examines fear and discusses how to shorten reaction time and block out negative reactions that hold you back when it counts, so that you can ultimately emerge the winner.
Gross motor skills are not pretty, they are not smooth and graceful, but they do enable you to save your life right now. On the field of battle, you command the fight by force, not finesse. 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.
