Pressure-point Fighting: A Guide to the Secret Heart of Asian Martial Arts - Softcover

Clark, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080483217X ISBN 13: 9780804832175

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Supplement your martial arts skills with this expert guide to pressure point fighting.

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, martial arts expert 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 on open-minded observation and willingness to try new, or old, approaches to martial arts training.

About this title

About the Author

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.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080483217X
• ISBN 13: 9780804832175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208