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. Managing Failure, the tenth booklet in the series, is approximately 60 pages long and deals particularly with how to critique martial arts techniques to gain understanding of what works in a real scenario and when. Since the advice is not style specific but explores the underlying concepts of personal combat, it is applicable to students of most martial styles.
Managing Failure includes discussions and exercises on understanding failures due to standardized training, positional inferiority, and faulty discourse about the martial arts when applying techniques in the stand-up and ground arts.
Failure, when studied, brings enlightenment. When we address failure, we gain insight into how to avoid it and, more importantly, what to do should we suddenly find ourselves at the losing end of the confrontation. Good training makes allowances for failures and prepares you to win. 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.
