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| Advanced Bowie Techniques: The Finer Points of Fighting with a Large Knife | 
 enlarge | Author: Dwight. C. Mclemore
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 530795
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 158160484X
EAN: 9781581604849
ASIN: 158160484X
Publication Date: January 2006
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In Bowie and Big-Knife Fighting System author Dwight McLemore explored the history of James Bowie and the Bowie knife and laid out a basic fighting system for large blades. In Advanced Bowie Techniques, McLemore builds on this foundation, ratcheting up the instruction to teach you more complex fighting techniques with the Bowie knife. Using the same highly effective workbook format, McLemore pairs step-by-step instructions with realistic illustrations to make the fighting sequences come alive. His uncanny ability to convey subtle motion and movement in his drawings allows readers to fully understand and learn the dynamic art of knife fighting. Progressive drills combine techniques into sequences designed to show you how to maximize time, distance and movement to create openings for attacking or defending yourself against one or more opponents.Advanced Bowie Techniques is for anyone who wants to learn how to fight with a big blade or improve the skills he already has.Dwight C. McLemore is the founder and director of The School of Two Swords in Seaford, Virginia, which provides instruction in a variety of edged weapons and close-quarter combat techniques from the 18th century through modern times. He is a member of the advisory council for the American Heritage Fighting Arts Association and a member of the Association of Historical Fencing. He is the author of two other Paladin titles, Bowie and Big-Knife Fighting System and The Fighting Tomahawk.
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Highly Recommended - A Graduate Course in the Use of the Bowie Knife! October 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Advanced Bowie Techniques is Dwight McLemore's follow-on text to his outstanding 2003 book "Bowie and Big-Knife Fighting System".
Advanced Bowie Techniques offers more techniques for using the Bowie (or other large knife) in combat situations. It includes advanced drills and engagement scenarios, and Mr. McLemore's concepts on effective use of the Bowie knife (which I found to be a very effective and well-developed system).
Advanced Bowie Techniques is divided into five major sections:
>1. The Spanish Circle
>2. Engagements Sets
>3. Application of Kicks
>4. Putting the Bowie into Action
>5. Multiple Opponents
The book is copiously illustrated with easy to understand drawings showing how to apply the various advanced Bowie techniques. It should be noted that the skills shown in Advanced Bowie Techniques are in fact more advanced techniques that require a foundation in the basics to apply most effectively.
Advanced Bowie Techniques stands on its own as an excellent reference, but is even more valuable when combined with Mr. McLemore's foundation text "Bowie and Big-Knife Fighting System".
Highly Recommended - A Graduate Course in the Use of the Bowie Knife!
mystical Spanish Circle May 8, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have rated this book at five stars and feel it is a great companion to Mr. McLemore's earlier book. I bought his first book when it was still put out in a 3 ring binder. The drawings are again great but still require a pretty good imagination to follow through step by step. This is not a criticism since I have experienced the same difficulty deciding on photos to accurately describe training sequences in my own book "The Rhythm of One." I too tried to explain how to use the Spanish Circle and I'm not sure that this book is entirely successful at that either. This is a very difficult concept to teach without a live instructor, relying on drawings of foot placement. The concepts in this book are quite advanced and will refine the prospective knife-fighters movements. They define the use of a big knife better than any other book I have read so far. Even if you only learn one technique from this book it is money well spent. If you like big knives be sure you buy both volumes and practice what Mr. McLemore says. I'd like to offer a personal thanks to Mr. McLemore who encouraged me to finish writing my own book "The Rhythm of One" many months ago.
Step-by-step drawings instruct on bowie knife engagements April 27, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dwight C. McLemore's ADVANCED BOWIE TECHNIQUES: THE FINER POINTS OF FIGHTING WITH A LARGE KNIFE provides high-quality and large-size step-by-step line drawings to accompany specific insights on bowie knife engagements. From an introductory history of James Bowie and his special knife to a basic fighting system which builds upon foundation skills and teaches more complex fighting techniques with the knife, ADVANCED BOWIE TECHNIQUES is for any who already has some familiarity with the big blade and seeks skills improvement.
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