Becoming a Supple Leopard

I'll admit that I've always been a little skeptical of Kelly Starrett. A few years back he came out with a lecture beginning with the inflammatory statement "STRETCHING IS DEAD!". Anyone that's followed this blog for long knows I'm a big believer in "stretching". It didn't help that despite declaring the death of stretching, a year or two later, he was preaching the virtues of stretching quite heavily in his mobility WODs. Becoming a Supple Leopard So, when he came out with a flashy hardcover book with textbook price tag of over $60, I wasn't sure what to think. Seeing it in the local book store, I decided to swallow my pride and get a copy.
I'm glad I did. Presentation Kelly has put together a book that you won't be ashamed to have on your coffee table. It is a beautifully bound hardcover book with glossy pages and hundreds of photos illustrating exercises and mobility work. If it were a college-level textbook, it would sell for over a hundred dollars - seriously.
Exercise and Drill Descriptions The exercise descriptions, full-color photos, and tips are outstanding.  Quite frankly, most people have no idea what they are doing when it comes to stretching and mobility work. With this book, people will be able to target just about any area that needs stretching/mobility work. Watching random videos put out by CF boxes, sometimes you wonder if there is any competent exercise skill and technique coaching present at all. This book, if followed closely, will give people a lot of food for technique thought and more than enough mobility fodder to experiment with for years.
Torque The chapter on "Laws of Torque" is going to be eye-opening for many people. I've been talking about spiral tension and emphasizing external rotation and it's application in squatting, pressing and overhead work for years, but this is probably the first published work I've seen on the topic other than Pavel's "The Naked Warrior" (another EXCELLENT book by the way).
Kelly Starrett talks about torque and shoulder stability in this video:

Universal Cues for Creating a Stable Hip Position: *Screw your feet into the ground. *Spin your feet as if they are on dinner plates. *Spread the floor. *Shove your knees out. 

Universal Cues for Creating a Stable Shoulder Position: *Break (bend) the bar. *Keep your elbows in. *Armpits forward (when pressing overhead). *Elbow pits forward (when doing a pushup). - From Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett (p. 50)

If there are any criticisms of the book that I have, they would be the following - understand that they are minor criticisms, but I feel obligated to state them:
*I'll admit, I'm not completely sold on the idea of moving potentially injured joints through pain and full range of motion while under compression (called 'voodoo flossing' in the book), and the current trend toward demonization of ice in the S&C community, to me, is silly. Has ice been overused as a restorative tool? Absolutely, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here...
*Tips make you better, but tips don't make you good. Although the book is presented as a system, it often reads like an encyclopedia of tips and techniques - nothing wrong with that, but you might have to kiss a lot of frogs on the way to finding your drill prince charming. Time under the bar and on the mat in the study of movement (and movement under load) goes without saying.
*I think the dichotomy between stretching and mobility is an artificial and grossly overstated one. That said, I think Kelly Starrett presents his argument for the distinction well and it's clear he knows the subject.
If you are a strength and conditioning coach, movement coach, or Crossfit gym owner, trainer, or trainee, I think this book is essential for your training library.