Fighting As Real As It Gets

Fighting As Real As It Gets
Author: Michael Staack
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 3476049914

Michael Staack’s multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport ‘Mixed Martial Arts’. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly create and immerse themselves into their own world of ultimate bodily combat. With his examination of concentrative technique demonstrations, cooperative technique train-ings, and chaotic sparring practices, Staack not only provides a sociological illumination of Mixed Martial Arts culture’s defining theme – the quest of ‘Fighting As Real As It Gets’. Rather further-more, he provides a compelling cultural-sociological case study on practical social constructions of ‘authenticity’.

Warriors Of The Ultimate Fighting Championships

Warriors Of The Ultimate Fighting Championships
Author: Erich Krauss
Publisher: Citadel Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780806526577

A comprehensive and detailed history of the UFC and the men who participate in ultimate fighting showdowns.

Real As It Gets

Real As It Gets
Author: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0758289561

She can uncover the biggest celebrity secrets. But now Maya Morgan's hottest story ever is way too up-close-and-personal . . . For once, everything in Maya's life is falling perfectly into place. She's getting serious media cred uncovering the source of a new designer drug doing major glitterati damage. And the new man in her life is giving Maya all the cool bling and attention she craves off-camera. But the truth behind her scoop is about to cut too close to home--and put Maya and her family in the crosshairs. Soon, she'll have to decide just how far she can afford to go to save her family, her career. . .and herself. "Sit up and pay attention--Maya Morgan will knock your socks off." --Earl Sewell, author of The Keysha Diaries "Scandal and mouth dropping entertainment!" --Ni-Ni Simone

Real Fighting

Real Fighting
Author: Peyton Quinn
Publisher: Paladin Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-07-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780873648936

Techniques learned in the dojo rarely work in a real fight. Here the author of A Bouncer's Guide to Barroom Brawling offers a practical solution. Learn how to control the rush of adrenaline into your system and harness it effectively to shut down the bully's antics or pound him into the pavement when all else fails.

The Invention of Martial Arts

The Invention of Martial Arts
Author: Paul Bowman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 019754035X

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit "Kung Fu Fighting," martial arts have found a central place in the Western cultural imagination. But what would 'martial arts' be without the explosion of media texts and images that brought it to a wide audience in the late 1960s and early 1970s? In this examination of the media history of what we now call martial arts, author Paul Bowman makes the bold case that the phenomenon of martial arts is chiefly an invention of media representations. Rather than passively taking up a preexisting history of martial arts practices--some of which, of course, predated the martial arts boom in popular culture--media images and narratives actively constructed martial arts. Grounded in a historical survey of the British media history of martial arts such as Bartitsu, jujutsu, judo, karate, tai chi, and MMA across a range of media, this book thoroughly recasts our understanding of the history of martial arts. By interweaving theories of key thinkers on historiography, such as Foucault and Hobsbawm, and Said's ideas on Orientalism with analyses of both mainstream and marginal media texts, Bowman arrives at the surprising insight that media representations created martial arts rather than the other way around. In this way, he not only deepens our understanding of martial arts but also demonstrates the productive power of media discourses.

As Real As It Gets

As Real As It Gets
Author: Monica McKayhan
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781583146057

Three strong-willed women--Reece, a lawyer; Maxie, a struggling journalist; and Charlotte, a real estate agent--encounter the ups and downs of life as they search for true love and fulfillment.

Fighting Words

Fighting Words
Author: Mike Straka
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1600785638

A collection of interviews with UFC President Dana White, UFC fighter Frankie Edgar, MMA referee John McCarthy, Hall of Famer Matt Hughes, and others.

Seconds Out

Seconds Out
Author: Alison Dean
Publisher: Coach House Books
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 177056666X

Kicking ass and taking notes—what it’s like to be a woman in the ring. Alison Dean teaches English literature. She also punches people. Hard. But despite several amateur fights under her belt, she knows she will never be taken as seriously as a male boxer. “You punch like a girl” still isn’t a compliment — women aren’t supposed to choose to participate in violence. Her unique perspective as a 30-something university lecturer turned amateur fighter allows Dean to articulately and with great insight delve into the ways martial arts can change a person’s — and particularly a woman’s — relationship to their body and to the world around them, and at the same time considers the ways in which women might change martial arts. Combining historical research, anecdotal experience, and interviews with coaches and fighters, Seconds Out explores our culture’s relationship with violence, and particularly with violence practiced by women. "An important addition to women’s martial arts scholarship, Dean provides personal insight into the radical space women occupy in sport fighting. Seconds Out is a must-read for all fighters looking for mentors in the complicated world of martial arts." —L.A. Jennings, author of Mixed Martial Arts: A History from Ancient Fighting Sports to the UFC "Dean brings a fresh new female voice to the topic of combat sports." —Trevor Wittman, renowned MMA trainer, UFC analyst, and founder of ONX Sports "Trained in the discipline and art of both fighting and literature, Dean combines both with style. She honors the fighters, writers, and historians who have come before her and definitively ends the idea of women fighters as a novelty. Seconds Out is a must-read for anyone who feels the call of the bell and reverence for a good fight." —Sue Jaye Johnson

Fighting Scholars

Fighting Scholars
Author: Raúl Sánchez García
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2014-12-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1783083468

‘Fighting Scholars’ offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book’s main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to access different social dimensions, such as emotion, violence, pain, gender, ethnicity and religion. In order to explore these dimensions, the concept of ‘habitus’ is presented prominently as an epistemic remedy for the academic distant gaze of the effaced academic body. The book’s most innovative features are its empirical focus and theoretical orientation. While ethnographic research is a widespread and popular approach within the social sciences, combat sports and martial arts have yet to be sufficiently interrogated from an ethnographic standpoint. The different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Body and Soul’: the construction of a ‘carnal sociology’ that constitutes an exploration of the social world ‘from’ the body.