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The Extra Meridians, Points, And More (Encyclopedia Of Dim-Mak)

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Mr. Montaigue's companion volume to the Dim Mak encyclopedia is a welcome addition to his outstanding series of Dim Mak titles. This book covers point strikes to the extraordinary meridians (covered in TCM theory), as well as additional information concerning the medical effects of point strikes to the human body. This book along with its companion "The Encyclopedia of Dim Mak" are excellent reference material for those wishing to learn more about both the damage and healing which this art can be used for.

erle montaigue just never seems to go wrong! this book is greatly written on not only point locations, effects, applications,multiple strikes, etc. but also has an added bonus on qigong (internal) training. also shows how to discover which points are most idealy for one to study by explaining how to learn the way which YOU already naturaly react. great learning tool to add to ones training. even includes his very personal fav. points in which he trains with. great companion to the fisrt volume! highly recomended reading!!

Mr. Montaigue's companion volume to the Dim Mak encyclopedia is a welcome addition to his outstanding series of Dim Mak titles. This book covers point strikes to the extraordinary meridians (covered in TCM theory), as well as additional information concerning the medical effects of point strikes to the human body.

This book along with its companion "The Encyclopedia of Dim Mak" are excellent reference material for those wishing to learn more about both the damage and healing which this art can be used for.

Similar books by martial artists such as George Dillman do not come close to cataloging this information in such a complete fashion. Rather, they concentrate on techniques in which the points may be used to take down an adversary.

While Mr. Montaigue shows clear knowlege of your basic accupuncture points (something you can easily learn from the multitude of existing teachers and manuals,) he tries to convince the reader that touching certain points in certain sequence will cause a KO.

Being quite familiar with the concepts of accupuncture, I can vouch for the accuracy of the ponts, but don't assume that striking them will cause the very opposite of the effect they are intented to treat, or a KO for that matter.

In conclusion, I have yet to be knocked out by anything lighter than a hard strike to the head or neck, which you don't need to be a dim mak master to pull off. Take the written material with a large dose of skepticism.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough - for both practitioners of the internal arts and the healing arts. I've had both volumes for years and am still regularly using them for cross-referencing, research and study. Lucky enough to have been instructed by Erle, I can assure you he is a true master in every sense of the word and the information in these volumes are worth gold.

My review of this book is the same as the first "The Main Meridians" by Montaigue, because this is merely a continuation of the first book. I have absolutely no difference of opinion.......

As a trained acupuncturist who has practiced martial arts since 1982 it is my humble opinion that this is a fraudulent book, as is the other vol. It will be obvious to any acupuncturist that Mr. Montaigue, with the aid of a TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) practitioner (Simpson), simply made use of TCM texts and reversed the application of energetically active points to suit "his" Dim Mak model. Anyone who has been in a real fight will not harbor an illusion that they can make use of minute accupoints to defeat an opponent. This is pure fiction and displays a total lack of understanding of Qi energetics. I don't dispute that Dim Mak once existed, but those capable of using it are people who were raised in temples where life revolved around simultaneous medical & martial training for many years; an existence most westerners cannot really understand. So Earl who bounced around from place to place and one thing to another does not even remotely fit this model. In his bio, he dedicates 1-single line mentioning his "main internal martial arts master", and makes no mention of being granted a rank of sifu or receiving a place in the lineage from this "master". So what great knowledge was really passed to him?

Ask yourself logically: How does Earl know the effects of striking all 360 + accupoints? Has he hit that many people and studied the effects? Did one of those old Chinese teachers he brags about give him such complete details? Or is it that he is just giving you the TCM obvious, like ST9? It does not take rocket science to know that striking a point where the vagus nerve & carotid artery are close will produce a negative effect. In fact, every true martial art is aware of such targets.

While Dim Mak makes perfect sense to me in theory, I am under no illusion that it is something I will ever perform in my lifetime. I have studied with, met, and observed many Chinese "masters", and I have yet to encounter a single one who has such command of their Qi. Unless you have lived like a monk uninterrupted for some 20-years under expert guidance, it is simply not realistic in this age.

The application of real Dim Mak is beyond any of us today. It is the equivalent of performing acupuncture treatments without using needles, but under combat stress. If you believe Earl is some high Qi master, then this book may be for you.

More likely, your martial path will be significantly enhanced by studying the legitimate positive effects of these points through a TCM text book. After learning to heal yourself you can consider healing others. Earl's "Dim Mak" would have you take that in reverse. Focusing your Qi to harm others, or even just entertaining the thought is a dangerous act that has no place in daily training and should only be reserved for life-threatening situations.

Well, written, well illustrated. The only thing that's keeping me from rating this 5 stars is that this book and the one for the main meridians promise a little more than what they deliver. In other words, I want more information on the healing aspects of the Meridians and pressure points. I.E. if it's possible to cause this much destruction to a human being, shouldn't it be possible to do more to heal others?

Mr. Montaique has expanded on his other masterpiece, and well done I might add. This is the follow on to his other encyclopedia and a must have to complete the collection.

Bryan Winkelman (www.senseibryan.com)- Author of "Training Manual for Isshin Ryu Karate" listed on Amazon.com

This is a great addition to the first edition. The author also includes his favorite pressure points. I think these pressure points are the most useful to know. Great book.