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Summary: Not so essential
Review: A very misleading title and description for this book. Other than some very basic western concespts of anatomy (you got them in the 8th grade), this book is good for little more than it's thorough coverage of the meridians, which comprises more than 80% of it's content.
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Summary: A Lot of Information for a Good Price
Review: I recently purchased the book "Essential Anatomy For Healing and the Martial Arts" by Marc Tedeschi. I had a gift certificate that I receive for Christmas and was browsing through AMAZON.COM looking for some vital point books. I stumbled on this book and took a chance with it. This is a GREAT book of charts. The book is not much more then several very well done charts of the human body. The author divides the book into two sections. The first sections is on Modern Western Medicine (MWM) and in this section there are several charts of the bodies various systems. The second part is the Eastern or TCM view of the body. Each meridian has several great charts with point location and detail. If anyone has seen the book by Felix Mann called " The Atlas of acupuncture: Points and Meridians in Relation to Surface Anatomy", then you will recall some of these charts.OK, OK....before anyone says this I will beat you to it.........YES! You can get this same information from other sources (Gray's Anatomy, Netter's books, Mann's books,etc. etc.) BUT here it is all in one place at your fingertips
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Summary: A Lot of Information for a Good Price
Review: I recently purchased the book "Essential Anatomy For Healing and the Martial Arts" by Marc Tedeschi. I had a gift certificate that I receive for Christmas and was browsing through AMAZON.COM looking for some vital point books. I stumbled on this book and took a chance with it. This is a GREAT book of charts. The book is not much more then several very well done charts of the human body. The author divides the book into two sections. The first sections is on Modern Western Medicine (MWM) and in this section there are several charts of the bodies various systems. The second part is the Eastern or TCM view of the body. Each meridian has several great charts with point location and detail. If anyone has seen the book by Felix Mann called " The Atlas of acupuncture: Points and Meridians in Relation to Surface Anatomy", then you will recall some of these charts. OK, OK....before anyone says this I will beat you to it.........YES! You can get this same information from other sources (Gray's Anatomy, Netter's books, Mann's books,etc. etc.) BUT here it is all in one place at your fingertips
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Summary: Excellent pressure point text.
Review: I stumbled across this book last year before it was released and hed to wait to see if my purchase was a good one. Well, it is. This text has the clearest, most comprehensive and understandable charts of the acupoints that i have ever seen. Tedeschi also covers western theories of health and healing also making this book a good basic resource on human anatomy. The book is structured very well, with the sequence of the charts following the flow of Ki through the meridians. Each of the meridians has a separate chart and a very useful table covering the associated points and other major connections between each meridian.The ying and yang meridians are also cleraly identified. This book is a great text for identification of and theory surrounding the pressure points. Myself, being a martial artist have recommended it to my instructor and he has also purchased a copy. an excellent book. (It must be said though that any reference text also needs an experienced instructor to support the questions and / or problems encountered by the student.)
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Summary: Not enough martial arts content
Review: I think that the title is a bit misleading. This book does have lots of good information compiled into one source. The problem is that it is more of an anatomy book than a martial arts resource. There are good illustrations though I do not think that there is enough depth or analysis in the surrounding text. Discussions of meridians and pressure points are more suited to acupressure/acupuncture students than to martial artists who are the target of perhaps 10% of the content. There is almost nothing, for example, about how martial techniques work from a bio-mechanical perspective, nor how applications affect the body medically. If you want a good overview that compares and contrasts Western and Eastern thought it's a decent reference, but if you want an in-depth study suitable for serious martial artists this is probably not your best resource.
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Summary: Should be titled "Essential Anatomy: For Teenagers"
Review: In the above sense the book has some value (this why more than one star), but the elders should look for something more serious and comprehensive.
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Summary: Great Charts - Poor Text
Review: Marc Tedeschi has put a great deal of work into this book as far as assembling all the necessary information for a basis to learn pressure point fighting into one text. His charts are excellent and include all the special points off the meridian lines. It is also nice to have the contrasting Feng Shui charts to display color, emotion, and additional data that does come into play during advanced study. However, his written theory explaining martial application is poor, and the photographs of applications are misleading. After cross referencing the data provided in the charts, they are completely accurate. I do think that this book is an excellent addition to a studying martial artist's library, but do not expect this book to teach you anything in regards to technique. Buy George Dillman for that. It is a supplemental data source...no more. Technique and teaching should be left to real teachers. I think Tedeschi would agree.
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Summary: Great Charts - Poor Text
Review: Marc Tedeschi has put a great deal of work into this book as far as assembling all the necessary information for a basis to learn pressure point fighting into one text. His charts are excellent and include all the special points off the meridian lines. It is also nice to have the contrasting Feng Shui charts to display color, emotion, and additional data that does come into play during advanced study. However, his written theory explaining martial application is poor, and the photographs of applications are misleading. After cross referencing the data provided in the charts, they are completely accurate. I do think that this book is an excellent addition to a studying martial artist's library, but do not expect this book to teach you anything in regards to technique. Buy George Dillman for that. It is a supplemental data source...no more. Technique and teaching should be left to real teachers. I think Tedeschi would agree.
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Summary: excellent overview
Review: Mr Tedeschi put together an excellent overview of anatomy designed for the martial artist. Covering both eastern and western philosophies the book is filled with clear concise charts and diagrams. This should be required reference material for all those studying the martial arts.
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Summary: My two cents
Review: The books of Mr. Tedeschi (I'm familiar with 4 titles) are of the highest quality. If you're interested in acupoint charts this title may be something you'll find interesting (nice charts and tables). IF your looking for martial arts information (specifically pressure points) then you may be better served by one of his other books - at least you'll get some martial arts information you might find interesting for the price and essentially the same pressure point information. The book contains 10 pages of information specify directed at the martial arts and its basically the same information in his other titles. I'm rating this solely from martial arts viewpoint.
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