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Summary: For people who are interested in advanced skill development
Review: This is a great referance for people with previous Martial Arts skills. I like the explanation of medical complications, which can occur from the result of one's use of the described techniques. The book doesn't only teach you what damage can be done, but it also explains what could medically occur in the Best and the Worst case senerio. If you don't have any Martial Arts training, this book may not be for you, but with any skills this is a great reading material to further your Martial Arts knowledge. I didn't like the moves demonstrated in the case of attack and defence. Eventhough, they might be helpful, they are not always the best moves and might be missleading to the reader, but overall the book is amazing and deffinetly worth reading.
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Summary: Very detailed, but not comprehensive
Review: When I purchased this book, I was actually looking for ways to _avoid_ killing someone in a fight, so I was expecting a comprehensive listing of all the ways _not_ to hit someone, unless you wanted to kill them; well, it's a fairly small book, so I really expected principals rather than specific details. What I found was an excellent collection of case studies of specific blows with severe consequences.Within its scope, this is an excellent book, but it is a small book and its scope is similarly small. It is really a book of _potential_ consequences: worst case scenarios when one is hit a certain way. It makes little mention of the probability that damage will occur, and especially it doesn't seem to remark on how likely such damage is to occur accidentally. Also, there doesn't seem to be any real mention of principals of damage, just specific cases. All that said, I would recommend it to any serious practitioner of karate, or other similar martial art. I don't know what textbooks fight doctors use, but I would cautiously suggest it to them as well (in ignorance of similar resources). If you buy only one book on karate, this should not be it, but it makes a fine addition to a small library of martial arts textbooks.
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