How to Maximize Your Hand Speed - and Fighting Speed

J. Barnes has given us a well-written comprehensive guide to improving your fighting speed. There are step-by-step guides and exercises to the maximize areas that enhance your speed, such as: vision, reflexes, adaptation, and hearing. The guides and exercises are very easy to understand and follow. The methods are effective and efficent. This is a great read for anyone who is involved in martial arts or fighting.

Speed Training for Martial Arts
J. Barnes
In this book, Mr. J. Barnes clearly explains how to overcome common mental barriers and improve your speed and efficiency.
In several exercises of varying difficulty, Barnes' book will help you in countless areas.
The book is easy reading and doesn't bore you with useless mumbo-jumbo.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone involved or considering being involved in martial arts of any kind.

Speed Training for Martial Arts is a great reference to have on hand if you are a serious student or just someone who wants to be proficient in self defense. It is easy to understand. Full of exercises and knowledge. Written by someone who has over 20 years experience in martial arts, it shows that he knows what he is talking about. As a beginner, this book has been a valuable resource to me, showing the proper way to do things and how to be proficient in the least amount of time.

It was not hard for me to gravitate to this book in any way, it's just what I needed and quite easy to read. Masterfully written, J Barnes did a great job of perfectly explaining each strategy creating a nugget in so many ways. Readers all over will no doubt feel the same as I do.

As a former U.S. Marine trained in military combat, I really enjoyed this book. I would definitely recommend it to all of my buddies and colleagues. It shows the reader easy steps to improve your fighting skills through speed. By completing the exercises and following the steps, I have seen a great improvement. Like J. Barnes has written in the introduction, this book isn't meant to just be read; the exercises and methods should be followed and practiced in order for the reader to get the full value of this book.

This book has no photos. Not a single one.
This book has large print, as if written for the optically-challenged (probably a space-filler).
This book has few instructions for specific drills, giving loose descriptions of basic drills instead.

Example 1: a mental drill is described in which you envision yourself being attacked and think of how you might defend against it.
Example 2: the author suggests you take up Filipino stick fighting, because it'll make you faster.
Example 3: a mitt drill is described in which you assign a number to three different techniques and when your partner calls out that number, you do the technique.
Example 4: a reaction drill is described in which your opponent strikes at your face but you try not to blink.

Let me emphasize that these are all REAL DRILLS from the book, accompanied by no deep instructions and not a single photograph. If you are a beginning fighter with no idea how to train yourself, you might find some of these usefual and innovative. "Wow, I've never thought of ANY of these drills before! I'm a way better fighter now!" thought no semi-trained martial artist, ever.

I was hoping to find some really good drill both for myself and to integrate into my class, but there was little innovative in this child's primer, not even visually (again. No photos). You are literally recommended to lift weights (because, get this, it makes you stronger, p.157) and stretch (because - get ready to have your mind blown - it helps you to be more flexible, p.159).

I would return this, but I won't get enough back for it to make it worth my while. Shelved. Or given as a gift to a white belt, maybe. Boo.

If you have been training for awhile, the advice is basic and common sense. It was easy to read and presented well. I would have liked to see more actual drills that increase the speed of the muscle groups.

This book should be considered more like equipment than an actual book. In it the author gives you instructions, and drills to help gain speed and maximize your potential as a martial artist. I highly recommend it to individuals in the martial arts field looking to maximize their speed and learn different concentration and focus techniques. It would also benefit individuals in the dance field.

Wow! This is a great instructional guide to speed train for Martial Arts effectively. If you want the speed it takes to be your best, this is where to start. The skilled instructions in this book was easy to understand and implement as a Martial Arts fighter at any level.

This book is an excellent reference book for anyone interested in the martial arts. The author explains in great detail all of the elements involved in speed, including movement speed and reaction speed just to name a few, as well as drills and exercises to increase one's speed. The drills are beneficial for beginners as well as experts. This book would make a great addition to anyone's bookshelf, especially a martial arts instructor's.

The author has speed training activities like saying "ugh" as soon as you see a green light while waiting in traffic or pulling toys away from your pets as his speed drills.
The book is about 20 pages long, tagged at 9.99 on Kindle, I doubt it's actually published by anyone. It's hardly longer than a pamphlet. Here is an excerpt:
"Traffic Light
While driving or riding in a vehicle, you can work on your anticipation skills by reacting when the traffic light changes from red to green. You can respond with a light "ugh" when the light changes. Do not try to anticipate the green light. Just react. Race care drivers use this drill to develop anticipation skill.
Caution: do not react by slamming the gas pedal to the floor. Use an appropriate and safe response to avoid injuring anyone."
Seriously...the book is full of that kind of useless garbage.
I have 107 Kindle purchases, I'm going to seek a refund on this one, first time ever.

There are no innovative methods revealed, just some common exercises you would find in a boxing gym or martial arts studio. Any mediocre instructor could provide more useful training without this much hype.

A Great reference book! Very Good.
It's seems that the author, J.Barnes (A.K.A the Rabbit) has a lot of knowledge in combat arts, sport and even has participated in real combat fights.
His knowledge is well written and the drills that described in this book are beneficial both for beginners and experts.
The book contains ten chapters (Speed Loop, Visual Reflexes , Movement Speed and more) that are well written and its seems that the author knowledge and expertise is indeed transfer to the reader.

I like that the author motivate the reader to "go out and succeed". "You must give effort before you get results" ! He is so right!

I read this e-book on cloud PC and HDX. Look Great.

J. Barnes has here written an easily digestible book on the importance of speed for martial artists and a range of drills and thought lines to help practitioners acquire it. The font is gym friendly with good spacing between the lines - I can imagine some people having this open while working out. The book doesn't outstay it's welcome at only 150 or so pages in paperback form. There aren't any illustrations to show the drills that are mentioned but they are explained in a straight forward manner and aren't all that elaborate so that doesn't detract from the book.

The author has broken the book up into different chapters covering topics such as visual acuity, reflex speed etc and also discusses things like overall fitness and muscle condition in terms of assisting speed. Much of the work is pretty much basic common sense to be honest. One issue that really detracted from the book for me was that there were so few drills. There will be a few pages of preamble on each subject often saying common sense basic things and then a few drills. I'd hoped for a book mostly of speed drills to work on rather than someone telling me why speed was important...

Having said that the author has cleverly avoided trying to make the book too specific for certain martial arts and addresses himself to a broad spectrum of artists. In fact even the general amateur athlete can probably get something from this book.

Certainly a worthwhile addition to your martial arts collection but after reading it you'll probably then have to go and buy a book that specifically contains mostly drills so you can marry that up with this work.