Description Jim Arvanitis, world-acclaimed Father of Modern Pankration and MMA pioneer, presents an in-depth analysis of this ancient fighting art and its modern derivative.
Pankration is one of the oldest martial arts on record and the first to integrate striking, grappling, and submission techniques.
The book examines the concepts, tactics, and training totheir adaptation by the author in the 20th Century.
Also discussed is pankration's development from its mythological roots to its sports inclusion in the Panhellenic festivals, and dynamic rebirth after it had vanished for several thousand years.
Hundreds of illustrations and photos depict one-on-one combat action and training throughout the text.
Greek pankration is the only fully-documented total fighting system of the Pre-Christian era and the precursor to MMA.
About the Author Greek-American Jim Arvanitis is internationally-renowned as Greek pankration's Renaissance Man.
For the past four decades he has devoted his life to researching and rebuilding the ancient combat arts of his ancestors which had seemingly perished and remained defunct for thousands of years.
Jim has used his skills as an athlete, competitor, world record holder, author, historian, and his constant media presence to carry the torch of pankration and educate the world of its influence on today's martial arts styles.
Arvanitis has written nine books and starred in over 30 instructional videos.
He has been featured in hundreds of articles in the leading martial arts magazine and has graced the covers of many of them.
In 2009 Jim was named Black Belt magazine's Instructor of the Year, and that same year was immortalized into the Martial Arts History Museum Hall of Fame in Southern California.
An extraordinary athlete, Jim holds world records for his patented thumb pushups.
In 1977 he completed 45 of them in 51 seconds, and three years later would top that mark on the internationally-televised Guinness Book of World Records Game Show with 61 in 4.
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