When I bought this book, I was looking forward to reading stradagies on how to make my sparring better. I am currently a 1st degree black belt. I like to watch Sparring competition, and I also like to compete. But I wanted to make it better. When I saw this book, I thought that it would give you some good tips. As I went through it, I only found out that it did have some things to help you. But the things were for beginners. All of the advice they gave you was just common sense. This book did not in any way help me in my Sparring training. But, I do reccomend this book for those who have just began Sparring. The book does have good pictures. And gives you a workout plan that you could use.