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Combat Kicking | 
 enlarge | Author: Andre Alex Lima
Publisher: Unique Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 3173997
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 150
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7 x 0.3
ISBN: 086568197X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.8
EAN: 9780865681972
Publication Date: October 2002
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Product Description
Many martial artists believe that high kicks are ineffective for actual self-defense situations. Brazilian-born Andre Lima contends that high kicks are practical - and in this book he proves it! With proper training, the kick is one of the most effective weapons of the human body, offering the advantages of distance of power. Lima, famous throughout the world for his kicking skills, shows the secrets to developing kicks with speed, power and precision.
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 Very Talented Author, But This Book Is Not Worth Your Time! May 26, 2008
Shawn Kovacich (The Greatest Little City in the World)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well it would be pretty hard to say that the author didn't have some pretty impressive credentials when it comes to Tae Kwon Do competition, however, having impressive credentials in a tournament and having impressive credentials on the street are two entirely different things. And that is where there seems to be a bit of confusion as far as the content of this book is concerned.
The author has a lot of good points that he briefly mentions in various sections of this book, and one notable point he talks about is the seemingly common misconception that high "flashy" kicks aren't good for self-defense. The author defends his viewpoint on this very intelligently and I would like to give him high regards for that. However, when it comes to having enough photographs to demonstrate the techniques he is showing and providing enough detailed informative text to go along with those photographs, I found the author to be sorely lacking in that respect.
The author demonstrates eight (8) primary kicks utilizing anywhere from one to three photographs per kick and at most two paragraphs of text per kick. This simply isn't enough! This is possibly due to the fact that, once again, the author (not just this author) of a book on kicking is trying to put too many techniques in one book leaving little room for proper explanation on any one technique, rather than focusing on one or two techniques and then providing volumes of information to adequately explain and teach those one or two techniques. The kicks the author demonstrates in this section are as follows:
Front Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 6)
Side Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 10)
Roundhouse Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 9)
Reverse Crescent Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 5)
Back Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 1)
Axe Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 3)
Wheel Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 2)
Hook Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 7)
The author then goes into sections covering combination kicking with one leg, both legs, and then jumping kicks. Very lean on material concerning these subjects and would have been much better had they been left out entirely from this book.
The next section was a bit more interesting where the author demonstrated some self-defense techniques which incorporated a variety of kicks against an assorted number of different types of attacks. This was followed up by several different self-defense techniques designed to be used by women. Now when I say interesting, I don't mean to imply that everything was interesting, nor was it necessarily interesting in a good way. As a matter of fact, I found only a few of the techniques demonstrated to be of any value and the explanations that went along with them far less than adequate.
The author then concludes the book with some fairly good, although extremely brief, information concerning kicking in self-defense.
Overall this was not a very informative book at all and the information that was in it wasn't worth the price of the book. In my opinion this book was a waste of my money.
The truly sad thing about this book was that the author could have done a much better job if he had just shortened the amount of ground he was trying to cover and focused instead on just a few techniques and a greater volume of much more detailed information to go along with those few techniques.
Shawn Kovacich
Martial Artist/Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series.
 Iffy book December 28, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book has a good layout, I'll give it that, but after being in Jeet Kune Do for the past 9 years this book didn't show me anything new at all. Even if not a totally new technique I was at least expecting doing something old in a new way, which I didn't find in this book. I don't really know if this book is even that good for beginners, as this thing is so basic I don't know that everything is explained as well as it should be. If you are in a "reality" martial art or study under a decent instructor that shows and knows combat applications, don't get this book, I really wished I hadn't bought it now. Mr. Lima is good at what he does I'm sure, but I think the martial arts world would have been fine without this book.
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