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The Way of the Fight
The renowned UFC fighter tells his remarkable life story from bullied kid to world champion in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. For mixed martial arts fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticism—it’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years as a struggling garbage collector who spent all his free time in the gym, his hard-fought rise in the sport of mixed martial arts, and his long, painful recovery from a career-threatening injury, Georges never lost sight of his ambition to become the greatest martial artist of all time. In The Way of the Fight, Georges reveals ...
Georges St-Pierre
Xtreme UFC follows the thrilling action of today's most exciting professional mixed martial arts stars. The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) organization has produced dozens of champions over its 17-year history. This title focuses on Georges St-Pierre. Reader interest is enhanced with quotes, statistics, action-packed photos and short, easy-to-read bursts of text. Glossary words provide additional information and understanding to the curious reader. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Fighter: The Unauthorized Biography of Georges St-Pierre, UFC Champion
St-Pierre is two-time and current champion of the UFC's most desired and hotly contested weight class. He has forced other fighters to go to great lengths in an effort to unseat him. But he's more than that. He's ramping up the popularity of the sport itself and the culture around it. St-Pierre is a marketer's dream. He's handsome, charismatic and funny in a self-effacing way. He's Canadian, fluently bilingual, came up from a difficult background with a few personal tragedies and has never been involved with drugs or crime or had his love life make any headlines. He's the man that the UFC is going to ride on in its quest to transform itself from niche market to mainstream. It's already begin...
Part Reptile
For fans of Ronda Rousey's MY FIGHT, YOUR FIGHT and John Kavanagh's WIN OR LEARN comes the first book from UFC fighter and now analyst Dan Hardy, who lifts the lid on his own career and writes with insight and eloquence on all things MMA and UFC, the brutal and ever-evolving sport that launched such superstars as Conor McGregor, Michael Bisping, Georges St-Pierre, Nate Diaz and Amanda Nunes. Dan Hardy's first book is much more than a straightforward MMA autobiography. Taking the key fights from his career, Hardy explores the sport with the unparalleled insight that has made him the best analyst working today. From training in China with Shaolin monks, to how MMA helped him channel his rage, to psychedelics and the ceremony in Peru that changed his life, to tapping into his 'reptilian brain' and the psychological warfare of UFC, to his epic title fight with Georges St-Pierre. Hardy also speaks eloquently of the heart condition that forced him to stop fighting, the road to recovery, and the evolution of a sport that flies in the face of mainstream disapproval to entertain and thrill millions of obsessives around the globe.
Quitters Never Win
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Some people are born to be a certain thing. And I was a born fighter. At the age of eight, Michael Bisping began his training in martial arts. By the time he was 15, he was fighting in his first no holds barred competition. When he turned professional and joined the UFC he was sure about one thing: only a world championship title would do. A British underdog in the greatest fighting championship on earth, he spent the next decade winning some of the championship’s most sensational contests to achieve his dream, becoming the first ever British UFC world champion in 2016. From his boyhood years learning to fight in the gyms of Lancashire to his most shocking clash...
Gsp
#1 Globe and Mail Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller As the world’s most popular UFC fighter, Georges “Rush” St-Pierre seems almost impossibly tough and dominant. Long before he was GSP, as his millions of fans know him, champion MMA fighter in UFC,he was just a kid who was harassed by bullies. Thanks to years of practicing martial arts, GSP would invent his own way of life. With startling honesty, GSP relates the true story of growing up in martial arts but also discovering that his passion for learning and constant improvement, make him happy. By way of fighting, he’s discovered how to succeed, and by way of injury, how to maintain perspective on that success. This book highlights the lessons that brought him there, the unique system he invented to combine various forms of fighting arts, and the key people who helped make him world champion.
Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts: The Stand Up Game
Greg Jackson is the most accomplished and celebrated mixed martial arts coach in the world. In Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts, he brings you into his stable of fighters, which includes UFC Welterweight Champion Georges "Rush" St. Pierre, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans, UFC Light Heavyweight contender Keith Jardine, and UFC Middleweight contender Nate Marquardt. For the first time, he unveils his methods for developing fight strategies, detailing everything you must accomplish from the moment you sign the contract up to the time you step foot into the octagon. Next, he shares his arsenal of stand-up striking techniques that allow his fighters to dominate the world of mixed martial arts. He shares dozens of striking combinations, counterstriking combinations, takedowns, and throws. Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts also includes something no other technique book offers—a chapter on street fighting that was developed over several years of trial and error. If your goal is to rise to the top of the MMA mountain, Jackson's Mixed Martial Arts is a mandatory tool because it's written by a trainer who's taken several fighters there.
Employee to Entrepreneur
Make the leap and become an entrepreneur today Are you living for the weekend? Are you dissatisfied at work? Are you itching to do something that is important to you? How can you avoid the pitfalls that many first-time entrepreneurs have fallen into? How do you explore whether entrepreneurship is right for you without giving up your day job? Employee to Entrepreneur is your guide to leaving your job behind and building something for yourself. Author and employee-turned-entrepreneur Steve Glaveski, shows you how to navigate the challenges, find the entrepreneurial success that is right for you and become a better person along the way. Employee to Entrepreneur combines storytelling with a step...
Into the Cage
"In the late 1980s, a VHS tape circulated through the martial arts underground ... Gracies in Action showed a slim Brazilian fighter in a traditional gi fighting a boixer, a wrestler, and finally a karate master ... In 1993 the Ultimate Fighting Championship debuted in Denver, Colorado ... Since then, under the leadership of Dana White, the popularity of MMA has skyrocketed. In Into the Cage ... you will find the history of mixed martial arts, an in-depth appreciation of mixed martial arts styles, a behind-the-scenes look at The Ultimate Fighter, and a glimpse into life with a flight team and what it takes to face an opponent in the Octagon"--Publisher's description.
