Dan Hardy autobiography available for pre order
Dan Hardy’s Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me is available for pre-order now on Amazon, and will be published on March 23, 2017.
For fans of Ronda Rousey’s My Fight Your Fight and John Kavanagh’s Win or Learn comes the first book from UFC fighter and now analyst Dan Hardy, who lifts the lid on his own career and writes with insight and eloquence on all things MMA and UFC, the brutal and ever-evolving sport that launched such superstars as Conor McGregor, Michael Bisping, Georges St-Pierre, Nate Diaz and Amanda Nunes.
Dan Hardy’s first book is much more than a straightforward MMA autobiography. Taking the key fights from his career, Hardy explores the sport with the unparalleled insight that has made him the best analyst working today.
From training in China with Shaolin monks, to how MMA helped him channel his rage, to psychedelic drugs and the ceremony in Peru that changed his life, to tapping into his ‘reptilian brain’ and the psychological warfare of UFC, to his epic title fight with Georges St-Pierre.
MMAjunkie published a number of excerpts, one of which is below.
Hardy also speaks eloquently of the heart condition that forced him to stop fighting, the road to recovery, and the evolution of a sport that flies in the face of mainstream disapproval to entertain and thrill millions of obsessives around the globe.
Looking back, Michelangelo has a lot to answer for. Like every other young boy at school in the late 1980s, I became obsessed with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. When the bell sounded for break time, I sprinted onto the playground with an imaginary orange mask tied around my head, swinging make-believe nunchaku in the air with innocent, childish glee. I chose Michelangelo out of the four because he appeared to be everything I was not. He was the loud and funny one, the laid-back free spirit. In that always-too-brief window between lessons I longed to be that character, for I knew as soon as I was back in the classroom I’d revert to Dan, the quiet, insular, still-unsure-of-himself kid. Many years later it dawned on me that Raphael, the darker lone wolf of the quartet, was closer to the real me, but at five years old that Californian surfer-dude persona was the one I most aspired to.
Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me is available for pre-order now on Amazon, and will be published on March 23, 2017.