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By: Dan Cassidy (Registered IP 86.45.153.59) on 15-11-2007 14:31

Lesley Jackson has written a quite insightful and fabulous review of the best book I have read about karate training. In my younger days I had the pleasure of seeing the Wolverhampton YMCA fighters in action (pleasure was in seeing and not facing them within the competition area) and they were phenomenal and a truly tough bunch of men (Eddie Cox looked really scary and Ralph Robb's description was spot on.) I never met any of them in person but I was privileged to witness Jerome Atkinson defeat the then reigning world champion Jeoff Thompson at the 1983 English championships at Crystal Palace in one of the best contests many of the lucky spectators ever saw. Ralph Robb's modesty (about his own prowess)and humanity (in his relationships with his family and cousin Clinton) make this a thoroughly enjoyable and moving book. It is difficult to add anything to Lesley's review except that this is a book by an accomplished writer (I have since bought and read his brilliant novel WHAT GOES AROUND) which should be read by martial artists both young and mature, who would surely gain an insight to what it really means to be a fighter, in every sense of the word.

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