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.

This is not a bad book by any means but it pales in comparison to Loren Christensen's "Speed Training: How to Develop Your Maximum Speed for Martial Arts," the definitive work on the subject in my opinion. To begin, it's about 60 pages of really good content floated out into a 160 page tome through the use of large type and excess spacing. The writing is easy to read and understand but there's simply not a lot of meat in here. Topics include the Speed Loop, visual reflexes, tactile reflexes, auditory reflexes, adaptation speed, initiation speed, movement speed, alteration speed, speed hampering, and supplemental speed training. The author's knowledge is clearly vast but not enough of it ended up on the pages. For example, the Combat Common Sense principle has a lot of promise but is more or less just hinted at rather than fully fleshed out. Further, while the Speed Loop is the author's trade-marked concept, I'm not convinced that it has any special functionality beyond Boyd's law and the OODA loop that many martial artists already know and understand. The book would have been much improved by addition of more examples, drills, and practical tips to help practitioners incorporate the information into their practice routine. It's a great introduction to the topic but I came away wanting a whole lot more.

Lawrence Kane
Author of 'The Way of Kata' and 'Martial Arts Instruction'