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Self-Defense: Nerve Centers & Pressure Points for Karate, Jujitsu and Atemi-Waza

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The pressure points/nerve centers detailed in this book are very basic. I have been doing martial arts for only six months and I know more points than are covered in this book. Also he has a very 'Queensbury rules' attitude towards self-defense. He states that blows to the groin should not be used as it is a 'repugnant' tactic. Well if someone attacks you, you should use anything which doesn't cause them more than necessary harm. There's no place in self-defense for the niceties of sporting competition.

After buying this book, I was very upset about it. It doesn't really contain any pressure points at all, it basically tells you striking areas. This sounds good, but almost anyone that does martial arts would know them any way. I strongly encourage you not to buy this book. If you want a book that has pressure points this is not it. You're much better going to your dojo or martial arts school and learning something. rather then wasting your time and money on this book.

A good book for some-one looking for the basics. The author offers an "ethical" approach to martial arts which is quite refreshing. He also demystifies many of the assumptions made about pressure points. A good starting point - but don't expect to be an expert in the arts of nerve point strikes after reading this. Represents good value for what you get. Mike Peggs - 2nd dan UK.

Well, I am starting on Kempo at the age of 24, so I'm a little rude for the arts yet, but this book is excellent on many practical ways.
This book calls for common sense and an adequate form to deal with agression. Choosing a place to target looking to stop the figth, having in mind that there are areas in the body that when hit you can "disarm" your opponent by inflicting pain in the arms, legs or other easy targets,is a civilisized aproach to combat. The book shows with pictures the target areas and explain the difference in results in terms of the force, shape, and size of the attacker and defender. It is very, very practical.
Just as Mr. Tegner advised on his book, you have to use only the enough force so your legitimate self defense don't turn to an assault. Agression came in many shapes and sizes, so you must learn to adapt. Keep it simple is my law, when a fight is inevitable. The book show basic areas of strike, and almost every body area targeted is easy to reach in a real fight. Contrary to the concept of the points where, only by touching them you can stop your opponent, Tegner approach looks for bigger and easier-to-reach targets, even if is true the whole thing about preasure points and it effectivity. So, when you can't grab or touch a preasure point to stop the energy, oxygen, or circulation of blood, remember Tegner and hit an articulation of the arm or leg, or hit the neck, or other weak point.
(Excellent against police harassment)

If one surveys martial arts books they will quickly find that few books have been written that specifically deal with the subject of pressure points and nerve centers. Mr. Tegner weeds through the myths and heresay surrounding this subject and succeeds in presenting a realistic view of vital point striking. He avoids the hype (unlike the "death touch" books) and gives the reader an idea of what can be expected and accomplished from the exploitation of these anatomical targets in a very easy to understand format. (Let's face it, a 250lb man will certainly do more damage than a 120lb woman). Should be read by every martial artist

What Bruce Tegner has done with this volume is to strip away the mystical, pseudo-magical approach to the topic and present a straight forward and highly effective amalgamation of nerve centers, pressure points, striking techniques, and common sense self defense. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the martial arts or self defense in general. It is a valuable addition to your library.

This is a good book. It's cheap, well organized, direct and straightforward.

There's nothing mysterious about the data presented, and it's useful information.

There are plenty of expensive books out there that'll promise you magic information that will permit you to win every fight.

This is a good deal more honest. It has a lot of information on vulnerable targets of the human body and the tools used to attack those targets.

It presents the information clearly.

If you want a useful, comprehensive exposition of targets and the effects of light, medium and heavy shots, and the body weapons that are used to attack the targets, you'll like this book. Mind you, if you've studied martial arts for any period of time, you will probably know a lot of these, and maybe all of them. Similar information (less detailed) is provided in a chart with numbered targets in Funakoshi's "The Master Text".

This book isn't new, but the location of targets on the human body hasn't changed much lately.

I read this book and my reccomendation is that you lower the price because it is not worth even the little amount that is being payed at the moment. Other then the price I think this book has good instuctions on the nerve points but compared to The Encyclopedia of Dim-mak it rates only about a 3 star. Being a Jujitsu Sensei I think that the Atemi-Waza was not bad but needed some more definition. This is a good book to read but not much more.

This is a book that describes all the vulnerable areas of the human body and how to hit them. Knowing your attacker's weak spots is just as important as knowing how to properly strike them. This is a book all martial artists should have in their library, but it isn't just for them only. This is a book that every person has to own.

The reason why this book is so great is that it is meant and written for the average person like you and me to understand. It talks about all the major weaknesses of the body and all the physical effects that will occur when hit with strikes of differing force. ITS GREAT.

The book is also loaded with a plethora of pictures and maps showing all the body's natural vulnerable areas.

Bruce Tegner is an excellent author. Mr. Tegner explains in detail the legal definition of what self-defense is and what it is not. He did a ton of reseach to make this book. For example, he debunks all the mythical "deadly blows" and he talks about how television shows and Hollywood have heavily distorted what actual self-defense is. This will seriously educate anyone about what real self-defense is.

If you desire to protect yourself adequately and realistically,

THEN YOU NEED TO GET THIS BOOK!

I am a martial artist and just bought this book a couple days ago. The other reviewers were right. This book is utterly useless to even yellow belts of I would say almost ANY self-defense orientated martial art. Practicality is true, but most of this is common sense, even to the layman. He really should change the title to "SELF-DEFENSE Striking Areas: In Layman's Terms". It would fit this book much better.

The one thing thats really disappointing is that the title leads you to beleive that it actually discusses pressure points. It badly and undetailingly shows 20 some common "striking areas" useful in a self defense situation. Another thing is the big attacker, small attacker thing. Anyone who knew really anything about a true martial art would know that size does NOT matter and that power DOES matter.

I would only reccommend this book to people who have absolutely NO knowledge whatsoever of a martial art or any intention of ever training in one. It's generally just a bunch of facts to help the layman in a self defense situation, but please don't think its a "real" book about "pressure points" or "nerve centers"....