Introduction

Welcome to gmanreviews.blog. We will continue to look into the best boxing books, and we will talk about the next book in the series by Sam Ness, which is Peek-A-Boo Boxing Combinations, and we pick up in this book where the other left off.

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If you happen to have a Willie bag, you will love this book as it uses the numbering system of the Willie bag. For those who don’t know, a Willie bag is a special type of punching bag with numbers that correspond to various punches, and it’s used to train combinations.

This book starts with an introduction on how the setup of the combinations works with a discussion of different fighting ranges and the falling step (discussed in depth in the first book). Then it moves into combinations for long range (about 80 pages), combinations for short range (about 100 pages) and more complex combinations.

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What’s unique about this book?

Much that I said about the first books applies here. The first is that when the book demonstrates a technique, you get a written description and some boxers demonstrating each step, followed by screenshots of Tyson doing the technique.

There are way more screenshots of Tyson in this book than in the previous book, which makes sense because this book is about combinations. The book has almost 300 pages, becoming a pattern for these books, so it’s chock full of combinations.

I have to say I like the way Sam Ness structures these books and this one in particular because, in my experience, martial arts books can sometimes be constructed haphazardly, but it makes sense in the book.

Separating the sections as he does means that you can focus on one set of distancing (say infighting) and work on that through the combinations in the book, and then when you are comfortable with that range, you can move on.

Also, the more extensive section of the books, like the section on long-range combinations and short-range combinations, have their own indexes(apart from the main index of the book), so it’s straightforward to pick up where you left off or work out a training regime based on the index of combinations.

Conclusion

I have to say I love these books as their attention to detail is pretty straightforward, which is excellent as I am finding today it is becoming harder and harder to find boxing clubs. Hence, it almost feels like this kind of knowledge is lost, so it’s fantastic that Sam Ness is keeping the tradition alive.

In regards to this book specifically, this one is more about the combinations and can be thought of as an encyclopedia of different varieties of combinations from the Peek-A-Boo style of boxing. Still, it would help if you had the first book to make sense of this book as it builds across the foundation set by the first book.

To my surprise, I found out that a book on the footwork of the Peek-A-Boo style was released by Sam Ness this year while I was writing this review, so looking forward to reviewing that as well. This book makes me want to get a willie bag and get out there and practice those combinations.

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Peek A Boo Boxing Combinations Review

Introduction

What’s unique about this book?

Conclusion

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