Secrets of Pankration

In this three-volume set, Jim Arvanitis, the father of Modern Pankration, teaches you pankration's brutal stand-up fighting skills, then moves to its punishing locks and ground skills, and finally shows you how to combine them into a formidable mixed martial art.

• Volume 1 takes you through pankration's devastating ano, or standing, arsenal of punches, kicks, elbow strikes, shoots and takedowns, clinching techniques and a series of throws and sweeps sure to knock the fight out of your opponent.
• Volume 2 introduces you to the kato, or groundfighting skills of Modern Pankration, including pins, holds, chokes, submission locks and defenses against a mounted striker.
• Volume 3 puts it all together, teaching you how to counter throws and holds, gain top position from the bottom, maintain top control and execute compound attacks that will have your opponent submitting in no time. For information purposes only.