100 Deadliest Karate Moves
by Ted Gambordella
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Author: Ted GambordellaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1982-01
ISBN: 0873642457
Number of pages: 88
Publisher: Paladin Press
Book Reviews of 100 Deadliest Karate Moves
Book Review: A horrible reminder of the 70-80ies martial art craze
Summary: 1 Stars
Wow. I bought this book by mailorder during the mid 1980ies, before starting to practice karate, and even knowing nothing about karate back then, I immediately realised it was worthless and that I had wasted my money.
Now after practicing karate for close to 20 years, Im amazed that this junk is still in print.
I actualy gave my copy away to a friend who collects "questionable" martial-art litterature, because I was ashamed to have it on my bookshelves. I borrowed it back for this review.
It starts out with a 1 (or 2 if you are lucky) picture description of a few very basic karate techniques, This means you are shown the moment the technique hits and nothing more. Together with this is a short description of its effect. One example is a picture of a knee touching the face, with the text: "Damage: broken nose, crached teeth, broken jaw
Result: attacker will be knocked out for several minutes."
That is all the description or explanation there is, and that is fairly typical for the "100" techniques listed in the book.
The technique shown on the cover, is described in the book with that picture (and only that single picture) and the text
"Damage: loss of breath.
Result: death, unless pressure is released."
And nothing more!
At the end of the book are a few "situations" where the techniques are shown applied. If I ignore the horribly unrealistic situations and applications, I question the knowledge in how you can learn how to defeat 3 opponent in three pictures and the text:
"Situation Two: You are getting into your car with your wife when two thugs attack you with a crowbar, trying to kill you.
Response: You both react with kicks; the man with a SIDE KICK to the face; the woman with a BACK KICK to the groin. You then finish them off with STOMPS to the throat and neck."
I could also question the legal aspects of recommending stomping on a downed opponents throat and neck.
All in all this book is to be avoided by anyone who wish to learn martial arts of any kind -be it for self defense or competition.
There are many good books about karate and martial arts out there, but this book is not among them. The only use for this book is as a source of amusement over how incredibly bad it is.
You learn more Martial Arts by playing computer fighting games on your PC.
If it was possible to rate something a negative star, I would!
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