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Title: Stick Fighting by Masaaki Hatsumi, Quintin Chambers ISBN: 0-87011-475-1 Publisher: Kodansha America Pub. Date: 01 August, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: truly excellent
Comment: Like other books from Kodansha publishers, this is a very informative book to read, and it avoids repetition of identical moves. Each page is a new technique, and the techniques are grouped in a very logical way. The pictures are extremely clear, the clearest of any stick-fighting book I have seen. If you were going to buy one book on stick fighting, this should be the one!
Rating: 5
Summary: Written by THE Ninja Grandmaster!
Comment: This book is a real treasure - it teaches the techniques from one of the original nine ninja clans in ancient Japan, and the Hatsumi should know what he's talking about, he's the 34th grandmaster of the nine ninja traditions (Ryu) that go back over 900 years!
Aside from the historical interest, as a student of taijutsu and ninjutsu I found this book to be tremendously helpful. Even with no other training, you can use it to learn to defend yourself very effectively with a common cane or stick.
Rating: 5
Summary: Appropriate book with good explanations and photographs.
Comment: I have been doing jo training for eleven years. This book has shown me things that I have never seen nor thought of. I own a dim-mak book as well and it is amazing how much overlap. In this book the author even uses accurate bone names.
Pay attention to the techniques using a hanbo or similar instrument. These techniques and weapons are more powerful than you may think. Many of these techniques would be impractical to use, and he points it out from time to time. Very refreshing. The point of the mover is not to memorize them, but to learn what the weapon and skill is capable of doing.
I looked at the back of this book and saw the rediculous pictures and poses. I though that this would be mostly fluff. Those moves are far easier and useful than it first seems. I have used technique 23(a strange cross-wrist scisoring) in too-rough sparing sessions and it worked to great success. My partner had no idea what had happened.
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Title: The Grandmaster's Book of Ninja Training by Masaaki Hatsumi ISBN: 0809246295 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Essence of Ninjutsu by Masaaki Hatsumi ISBN: 0809247240 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Ninjutsu: History and Tradition by Masaaki Hatsumi ISBN: 0865680272 Publisher: Unique Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Understand? Good. Play!--Words of Consequence by Masaaki Hatsumi, Benjamin Cole ISBN: 0971084955 Publisher: Bushin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Secrets from the Ninja Grandmaster by Stephen K. Hayes, Masaaki Hatsumi ISBN: 1581603754 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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