Cao Dai Kung-Fu: Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam

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Summary: Fantastic instructional
Review: Perhaps the finest English language instructional on Vietnamese martial arts ever published. The book has detailed (yet easy to follow) text along with numerous illustrated diagrams. Published in a limited printing, this book has already become quite a scarce martial arts collectible.

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Summary: All Aspects of Martial Arts Here!
Review: This book is more than simply a martial arts manual that shows the moves, the positions and the strikes. It is also a history of martial arts--sort of a thumbnail sketch of what there is around the world--and how it developed in Vietnam. The author goes into the political climate that created conditions in which Cao Dai would come to exist in the first place and how it has evolved. Plus the excellent illustrations, done by the author and they are easy to understand. There's no substitute for a live teacher, but if you already have some background or if there is no dojo around, this isn't bad. And I don't know what you mean about it being hard to come by. Loompanics 8003802230 has plenty of stock--or go to their site.