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Summary: Very good techniques
Review: Techniques for meditation vary from person to person, and with a little alteration, this book can provide a large amount of insightful help on budo and other meditation arts.
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Summary: Don't underestimate
Review: This book and Iron Body Ninja reveal alot of information just becoming available, for instance it is noteworthy that Master-Yu Liangs book Qigong Empowerment reveals the same finger knitting mudras some 10+ years later. Read my review of Iron Body Ninja.
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Summary: Not bad, but not authentic
Review: This book did have some very good ideas regarding fighting techniques, mostly distractions, and some philosophy.
Kim is without a doubt a self made ninjutsu guy. The facts are that he uses very little Japanese,alot of chinese, does know a little fighting skill,and a little stage magic.
I read the book as a child, and have used some of the techniques to defend myself while in the Military Police Corp.
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Summary: Briefly states basic finger positions and meditations.
Review: This book doesn't live up to it's name of mind control. Dealing briefly with hand positions to gain "power" along
with breathing exercises to relax. It also goes into Ninja
moves which leaves room to be explained better. This is a book more on the Ninja than it is on how to BECOME a Ninja.
This book also deals very little with Chi power, contrary
to the books back cover description. This book need only be
read by Ninja fanatics.
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Summary: Ashida Kim...most people either love him or hate him...
Review: This book is concerned with the control of one's own mind...something not intuitively obvious from the title. If anyone believes this book will allow you to control peoples minds like Obi-Wan or something, you will be very mistaken! The main content of this book deals with breathing techniques and the kuji-in methods of focusing chi, derived from the buddhist art of Mikkyo. On a purely design note, the pictures tend to be rather blurry, and Kim insists on using chinese throughout the book to supplement the japanese words for the 9 kuji-in.As with all of Kims books (and indeed any book on the subject of Ninjutsu), read them and then decide for yourself what to believe and what to ignore.
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Summary: Larry Woodall age 19 usefull to all in many ways
Review: this book is for the beginner as well as the expert in martial arts it explains the art of breaking if you have minmum science understanding it is very logical you unlease the power of your mind thur your body with air=energy as well as healing benifits if questioned it can be well proved by simple science Ashidia Kim is a great writer very good book
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Summary: THIS BOOK RULES!!!
Review: this book teaches some of the best ninja arts in my studying of the ninja. beleave me the price is worth it get the book and enjoy!
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Summary: He's a fake
Review: This book was terrible. I bought it hoping to get some helpful direction for meditation, but before I even made it through in introduction, I felt like I was reading Celtic Magic rolled in Freud. The concepts are hardly consistant, discussing by name, the occult, and stating some metaphysical concepts as fact, while condemning others as obviously false. The use of quotes was abused to the point of absurdity, with little or no reference to the source, and often taking the words out of their context. The same goes for the frequent telling of stories, which had no reference, and generally seemed to be little more than fables. In describing what ninja are, Kim discusses Hindu religion, Chinese medicine and martial art, and western stage tricks and boxing, with the occasional mention of an actual Japanese concept or art. Very importantly, the actual fighting diagrams and descriptions are awful. The attacks rely upon the enemy standing still, and often recommend doing away with your guard in the name of deception and balance. The best way to stay balanced is good footing, and a low stance, and it's generally just a bad idea to attempt deceit by intentionally removing your guard. Also, the book preaches that a ninja does not need to kill, though all but one or two of the diagramed techniques are attacks, and the blocks shown are very dependent on the situation, and rather ineffectual, and the remainder of the techniques emphasize causing great harm to your 'enemy', using key phrases such as "finish off" or "Massive blood loss causes death." One must wonder if Kim even thinks about what he writes. I think the largest problem I had with this section is that Kim tries to fit several months' worth of training into 49 poorly angled photographs, captioned with bad descriptions. The pronunciation (when given) and spelling of foreign words seemed to be a bit off, and it was apparent to me that their use was primarily to give Kim the appearance of being more intelligent than he is. It says something, I think, that the back cover has the word 'ninjutsu' while Kim continuously spells it as 'ninjitsu' within the text. Unless you want to pay for a piece of trash, don't get this book.
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Summary: It would have been funny if it weren't so frustrating.
Review: This book was terrible. I bought it hoping to get some helpful direction for meditation, but before I even made it through in introduction, I felt like I was reading Celtic Magic rolled in Freud. The concepts are hardly consistant, discussing by name, the occult, and stating some metaphysical concepts as fact, while condemning others as obviously false. The use of quotes was abused to the point of absurdity, with little or no reference to the source, and often taking the words out of their context. The same goes for the frequent telling of stories, which had no reference, and generally seemed to be little more than fables. In describing what ninja are, Kim discusses Hindu religion, Chinese medicine and martial art, and western stage tricks and boxing, with the occasional mention of an actual Japanese concept or art. Very importantly, the actual fighting diagrams and descriptions are awful. The attacks rely upon the enemy standing still, and often recommend doing away with your guard in the name of deception and balance. The best way to stay balanced is good footing, and a low stance, and it's generally just a bad idea to attempt deceit by intentionally removing your guard. Also, the book preaches that a ninja does not need to kill, though all but one or two of the diagramed techniques are attacks, and the blocks shown are very dependent on the situation, and rather ineffectual, and the remainder of the techniques emphasize causing great harm to your 'enemy', using key phrases such as "finish off" or "Massive blood loss causes death." One must wonder if Kim even thinks about what he writes. I think the largest problem I had with this section is that Kim tries to fit several months' worth of training into 49 poorly angled photographs, captioned with bad descriptions. The pronunciation (when given) and spelling of foreign words seemed to be a bit off, and it was apparent to me that their use was primarily to give Kim the appearance of being more intelligent than he is. It says something, I think, that the back cover has the word 'ninjutsu' while Kim continuously spells it as 'ninjitsu' within the text. Unless you want to pay for a piece of trash, don't get this book.
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Summary: Highly Interesting Read
Review: This emphasises on relaxation techniques based on chinese medicine, Ashida Kim's focus is controlling one's mind if one can understand the following statement "The greatest warrior is the one who can conquer himself" you understand what I means...thourughly recommend it !
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