Pressure-Point Fighting: A Guide to the Secret Heart of Asian Martial Art by Rick Clark
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(Paperback - First Edition)
- Pub. Date: December 2000
- 208pp
- Sales Rank: 207,031
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: December 2000
- Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
- Format: Paperback, 208pp
- Sales Rank: 207,031
- ISBN-13: 9780804832175
- ISBN: 080483217X
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: First Edition
Synopsis
Pressure-point fighting-the practice of manipulating the body's vital nerve and reflex points for self-defense-offers the unique ability to neutralize attackers without causing any permanent harm. This intricate and temporarily devastating self-defense system has obvious advantages. What it hasn't had is a comprehensive guidebook from the Western perspective. Now martial arts expert Rick Clark offers all the fundamental pressure-point techniques-illustrated with hundreds of photographs and twenty-five detailed pressure-point charts-melding the ancient Asian knowledge with modern Western medicine and science. Here, at last, contemporary readers can learn to utilize this effective, reliable defensive art on their own terms. Rick Clark has nearly forty years of martial arts training and teaching experience. He has conducted seminars all over the world, is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on vital-point techniques, and has been a pioneer in bringing this knowledge to martial artists all over the globe.
Biography
Born Natsume Kinnosuke, Soseki was brought up in a middle-class family at the beginning of the Meiji period. After an extensive education in English, Chinese, and Japanese literature, Soseki taught English at the University of Tokyo. In 1907, he gave up teaching to devote himself to writing and produced a number of books, including Botchan, The Three-Cornered World, and Mon. He died in Tokyo in 1916.
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Pressure-Point Fighting: A Guide to the Secret Heart of Asian Martial Artby Anonymous
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February 05, 2003: I don't usually talk or let alone write anything negative about people but I feel compelled to do so here. My friend who is also involved in law enforcement let me read this book. Much of the martial information seems interesting. I am not sure however if the author has had real experience in extremely violent fights. I and a number of police officers I know have attempted to apply many of the techniques displayed in this book and the great majority of these methods failed miserably. Please get real and tell the truth. These techniques, which are shown and explained very well, work only when there is some compliance shown by the would be assailant. This is, however, one of the better books on the subject. I do know how to apply these methods. I and the other Police instructors who I know and work with have used them effectively on people who are not attacking violently. Try a simple test. have a friend put on some boxing gloves and have him or her punch you from any position without a setup. See if you can apply a pressure point technique under full speed while they are trying to knock you out. Good luck.
Pressure-Point Fighting: A Guide to the Secret Heart of Asian Martial Artby Anonymous
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April 15, 2000: I enjoyed Professor Clark's previous book a lot. It opened my eyes to a whole new facet of my art. This one is even better! It addresses many of the questions that I had about the other books that I've read on the subject. The photographs and charts are excellent tools that will soon be worn and dog-eared, I'm sure. Another fine effort by a fine martial artist.
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