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Hapkido: Traditions, Philosophy, Technique | 
 enlarge | Author: Marc Tedeschi
Publisher: Weatherhill
Category: Book
List Price: $90.00
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 358179
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 1136
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.4
Dimensions (in): 14.2 x 9.9 x 3.2
ISBN: 0834804441
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.8153
EAN: 9780834804449
Publication Date: September 5, 2000
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Product Description
This ground-breaking work is the first to comprehensively document the traditions, philosophy, and techniques of one of the world's most varied, exciting, and practical martial arts--Hapkido. More than 9,000 photographs introduce over 2,000 martial techniques, including strikes, kicks, blocks, avoiding movements, holds, joint locks, chokes, throws, falls, tumbling, ground fighting, and weapons. Numerous closeups show precise grips, leverage methods, pressure points, hitting surfaces, and direction of force. In addition to self-defense techniques, chapters are included on East Asian philosophy, martial arts history, anatomy, meditation, healing, and pressure point fighting, as well as in-depth, previously unpublished interviews with the world's preeminent Hapkido Grandmasters and renowned Grandmasters of related martial arts. Because of similarities between Hapkido and many other martial arts, including Taekwondo, Jujutsu, Aikido, Judo, and Tai Chi Chuan, this book is a useful reference for practitioners of all martial arts styles, from novices to masters. This unique work of exceptional quality is the definitive text on Hapkido, and destined to become a classic of martial arts literature.
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 Excellent Quality and Quantity +++ August 19, 2008
Kevin Kiersky (Olympia, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This very fine, but BIG, "Classic" has a great over-all style with accuracy down to small detail. "Hapkido" is of excellent quality and quantity; as a textbook, and in its content. It is very well-bound and sturdy, with good paper and print, in a clear style and font. It offers a generous quantity of technique with a quality of skill, style and meaning. This is made possible by a very well done modular pattern of presentation of precise explanations, diagrams, pictures and photos -- easily matching the best of academic works.
"Hapkido" has a nice balance of arts -- striking, avoiding and blocking, holding, throwing, weapons, internal and healing -- tradition and creation -- subtle and direct -- soft and hard. This reflects well the Art of Hapkido. Of a quiet, modest, eclectic Kenpo Art, I especially enjoyed the honest respect in this "Classic" -- as shown by the page fifteen "Comparison of Eclectic Arts". Such a modest attitude and book-price for such a wonderful work +++
Great book for every level of student February 17, 2008
S. Grater (Salt Lake City, Utah)
This is a wonderful book that I have enjoyed so much. It has given me so many new things to look forward to in my art.
great! December 18, 2007
J. LaFontaine
i bought this for my husband who is studying hapkido and he absolutly loves this book. recommend it to everyone!
 Reference Book November 16, 2007
Jeremy Hall (North Carolina)
Hapkido: Traditions,Philosophy,Technique is a very good reference book. First the Good
This book has a lot of pictures with close up and different angles to show details of specific moves. This book has a huge range of techniques from punches and kicks to submission holds to weapons. This book has an outstanding pressure point chart with not only pressure points but bone structure, organs, muscle structure, and even the nerve system.
The Bad
This book has tons of techniques, but there are alot of techniques that are just silly. The one on the cover for instance is a very pretty but not practical. He is performing two kicks, one with the ball of the foot and the other with his heel, and he is lifting himself up with his hands while doing them. This is not going to end a fight. The only other bad thing is that the pressure points that are referenced to in the book are accu pressure points. What does that mean? If you are not familar with that system you are constantly looking back to the accu pressure point chart and back to your technique. While this isn't horrible it can be time consuming.
Overall a very good buy but not a five star.
A true martial artist's dream. May 23, 2007
Kevin A. Schutz
I have been involved in martial arts and teaching for more than 20 years and this is one of the mast comprehensive manuals on martials arts that I have ever come across. It has some of the best technique in easy to follow daigrams and it is an excellent source of information for any and all martial artists
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