| Dynamic Kicking Method |  | Authors: Masafumi Shiomitsu, Shiomits
Publisher: Partners Publishers Group
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2021586
Media: Paperback
Pages: 126
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0946062072
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780946062072
Publication Date: June 1990
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Qualified Author, But The Book Just Doesn't Show It! May 22, 2008
Shawn Kovacich (The Greatest Little City in the World)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even though this book was written in 1985, it has some good information in it, although most of it is rather brief and could easily be expanded upon. However, I did feel that there were so many particularly distracting nuances in this book that I can't recommend it, and I have to give this book a 2 star rating. Being the author of several books on the very same subject matter, perhaps I am being more critical of the content than I should be. I will leave that for you to decide.
The obligatory stretching section that seems to accompany 99% of all books published on kicking is really no different than any of the other books. The author does demonstrate a limited number of stretches and the accompanying text is all too brief and other than being a limited overview of the subject, really doesn't add anything at all to the book.
In the books that I have written on the subject, I limited my section on stretching to two pages of text covering the basic do's and don'ts of stretching and encouraged the reader to read an actual book dedicated solely to stretching. That way I could spend the valuable space detailing how to execute a particular primary kick. It's a shame that this author didn't do the same.
The next section of the book was truly the "meat and potatoes" of the book, which was the demonstration and explanation of several of the primary kicks, of which I have included the list at the end of this paragraph. The author's layout of the kicks was fairly typical of most books on kicking with several pretty good photographs and then only a few sentences or two to go along with each photograph describing how to execute each kick. This used to be, and unfortunately still seems to be, a common practice with authors writing about kicking techniques. Fortunately, there are now some outstanding books available on the subject of kicking and they are:
Front Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 6)
Roundhouse Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 9)
Side Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 10)
Back Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 1)
Hook Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 7)
Crescent Kick (Achieving Kicking Excellence, Vol. 4)
Most, if not all, of the anecdotal stories in the book about the author's various experiences with kicking is quite informative and is the one truly shining spot in an otherwise dreary book. I did find the short section on the use of the iron shoe quite informative and would like to have seen that section expanded.
Overall I couldn't rightly recommend this book as there wasn't enough good information in it to justify its purchase. This is not to imply that the author didn't know what he was talking about, it simply didn't show all that much in his book.
Shawn Kovacich
Martial Artist/Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series.
Different title, different author, same book! April 5, 2000
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Why does it seem like every book you pick up on kicking spends more time trying to show you how to perform 20, 30, or even 40 different kicks, and never enough time on one or two? I did not feel that 4 sentences were adequate enough to teach me how to correctly perform a Front Kick, or 3 sentences in order to perform a Roundhouse Kick. I did like some of the different applications for some of the kicks that were presented in this book, although I did feel that they could have been more descriptive in exactly how and when to apply them. Another thing that bothered me was the listing of the vital areas of the body. Why were they listed in Japanese and not in English, or at least have the English name alongside the Japanese name. This would have added clarity to this particular section. Like the late, great Bruce Lee once said, "Before I started learning the martial arts, a punch was just a punch, a kick was just a kick. After I began learning the martial arts I realized that a punch was no longer just a punch and a kick was no longer just a kick. Then after I had learned the martial arts I realized that a kick was just a kick and a punch was just a punch". To better understand this quote I will use the analogy of learning to drive a car. Before you start to learn most people think all you do is get in and drive the car. Then after they start learning they realize that there is a lot more to driving a car than they first thought. There is putting it in gear, accelerating, braking, signaling, steering, watching other drivers, etc. Once they learn how to drive a car it merely becomes second nature and then it is merely driving a car. Think back to those times in your life and you will understand what I mean. Is this book for the person who knows nothing of the martial arts? or is it for the person who is already a high ranking martial artist? Because it definently falls far short of being for the person who wants to learn how to really kick. In finishing this review I would like add that although this book is not what I would call a very good book on kicking, it does have some insightful stories from the author that are worth reading.
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