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Overview

Western students of Asian martial arts have long been haunted by the aching suspicion that something is missing from the arts they love and practice

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Binding	Paperback
Publisher	Tuttle
Country of Origin	USA
Number of Pages	194
Pubilcation Date	2001
Condition	New

Product details

Self Defence Book
by Rick Clark
Pressure Point
Loads of Photos
Great Story

Pressure Point Fighting Description

Learn the ancient knowledge of how the body's vital points, the centers of the body's natural energy, can be exploited to gain an advantage over your opponent in martial combat or self-defense.

In this detailed guide to pressure point fighting, martial arts expert Rick Clark describes how to target expertly placed blows which can defeat your opponent quickly and effectively. He offers a systematic introduction to this knowledge and to the tools needed to recognize vital points in the kata, hyung, or forms already in place.

The lessons explain:

Where the body's vital points are located and how to strike them for maximum effect
How vital points can be targeted most efficiently to successfully defend oneself
How targeting vital points can be used in conjunction with traditional martial arts to help meet a variety of threats

With 230 photos and 25 detailed charts, Pressure Point Fighting teaches that success in this discipline is not dependent upon acceptance of the tenets of traditional Chinese medicine, or modern Western medicine, for that matter―solely on open-minded observation and willingness to try different approaches to martial arts training.

Forewords written by pressure point combat expert Vince Morris and Tai Chi master Jane Hallander explain how this book's lessons are indispensable to anyone seeking to learn the elements of pressure point fighting

'On the back' of Pressure Point Fighting

"In my fifteen years as a martial arts journalist, I have seldom seen a martial artist with the ability and knowledge of Rick Clark, a person who not only knows several martial arts from all angles, but who can write about them in a manner anyone can easily understand... Pressure Point Fighting is a book for all martial art styles... a must-read for students, teachers, and those interested in learning more about common-sense martial arts and self-defense."
—Jane Hallander, from the Foreword

Western students of Asian martial arts have long been haunted by the aching suspicion that something is missing from the arts they love and practice wholeheartedly-something intangible, but something so essential that its absence leaves an unbridgeable void. For many, that missing ingredient is a true and thorough knowledge of the body's vital points: what they are, where they are, how to quickly find them under duress, how to use them, constructively or for destruction-and how to recognize them in the kata, hyung, or forms they thought they knew so well. In Pressure Point Fighting, Rick Clark offers a systematic introduction to this knowledge and to the tools needed to ferret out more of this information from forms and techniques already in place-knowledge and tools that are not dependent upon acceptance of the tenets of traditional Chinese medicine, or modern Western medicine, for that matter, but which are based solely upon open-minded observation and willingness to try new, or old, approaches to martial arts training.

Rick Clark began studying martial arts in 1962, at the age of four-teen, and has been an enthusiastic student ever since. With ample experience in arts including judo, jujutsu, karate, and Korean systems, a thorough understanding of physiology, and a knack for digging out gems from obscure sources, he has helped to bring about a quiet revolution in the training regimen of martial artists around the world. When he's not traveling throughout North America and Europe to conduct vital-point and applications cominars, he continues to research diligently at home in Indiana.

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