Customer Reviews

Hap Ki Do: The Korean Martian Art of Self Defence: Practical Hap Ki Do Textbook

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This book contains excellent photographs of the techniques that allows you to understand how you move from start to the finish. I have been studying Hap Ki Do (and other arts) for over 15 years and in my opinion, this book is one of the best I have read. It is a little lean in demonstrating advanced kicks, but is full of wrist, throwing and weapon techniques.

This is the book to start with for Hapkido. Master Choe's other book (Hap Ki Do - The Korean Art of Self Defense) focuses mainly on joint locks and takedows and how they can be varied from different grabs. This book however, shows a variety of striking techniques and counters in addition to the joint locks. Also, more realistic situations and the effective techniques are presented here. Although both books are lacking in text they are definitely worth getting as excellent references.

As a beginner in hapkido i would recommend this book for others that are also interested in starting hapkido. This book offers step by step pictures on how to execute kicks and basic self defense, and plus it is very short on words which makes it interesting and easy to learn techniques.

book has some good techniques for advanced students not a book for beginners.plenty of good pictures.

This book illustrates and describes techniques from breathing excercises to weapons defense. The book is logically laid out and has many photographs that accompany the text. I was somewhat disappointed that more advance kicks were not covered... All things considered, this book is a better representation of Hapkido than Spears or Han has published.

This is an excellent reference book for anyone starting in hapkido. The pictures are detailed and easy to do. I really enjoyed working through is book.

Replete with hundreds of photo illustrations of everything from proper front kick technique to defense against weapons attacks to multiple opponent attacks. A pratical textbook on Hapkido illustrated so well that it can serve as a self-study guide. I highly recommend this book for both students and instructors.

Excellent Hap Ki Do book. I'm a taekwondo'er and found this book very easy to understand with big clear pictures for illustration. I've purchased all three of Master Choe's HKD books and found a certain amount of redundancy in the techniques, but highly recommend all three any way. I originally found one of these in the library and realized right away that these books were the best I've found.

Looks a lot like his work. Good book. Should give credit where it is due however.