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Essential Anatomy: For Healing and Martial Arts Paperback – April 4, 2000

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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Weatherhill; Full Color edition (April 4, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0834804433
  • ISBN-13: 978-0834804432
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.4 x 11 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Reference on Oriental Meridians
By Glenn on April 21, 2005
Format: Paperback
I was really surprised to see so many negative reviews for this excellent book. I can only imagine that the writers were expecting a book teaching them the art of Pressure Point fighting, and while there is a brief section on both healing and martial arts applications in the book, this work is really about the Meridian and acupoint system of the human body, and it succeeds brilliantly as such. Also to be commended is the author's excellent overview of Western Anatomy and explanations of how Eastern and Western concepts mesh. The book is packed with info, mostly in the form of charts with short explanations. Certainly, you aren't going to learn everything there is to know about TCM, but what a great reference! As an Asian style bodyworker, I love this book. It's the best one I've found yet on Oriental Meridians. It is very straightforward and the Meridan charts are first class. The quality of this book is also first rate: nice stiff pages that read well and will hold up to a lot of pawing and page turning. Buy and study this book to learn the "whats" and "wheres" of TCM. Then find a Master to learn how to apply this wealth of information. This book WILL show you where the points are and how the different points and the meridians affect the body as a whole.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGreat Charts - Poor Text
By Corey H. Wiscomb on September 21, 2002
Format: Paperback
Marc Tedeschi has put a great deal of work into this book as far as assembling all the necessary information for a basis to learn pressure point fighting into one text. His charts are excellent and include all the special points off the meridian lines. It is also nice to have the contrasting Feng Shui charts to display color, emotion, and additional data that does come into play during advanced study. However, his written theory explaining martial application is poor, and the photographs of applications are misleading.
After cross referencing the data provided in the charts, they are completely accurate. I do think that this book is an excellent addition to a studying martial artist's library, but do not expect this book to teach you anything in regards to technique. Buy George Dillman for that. It is a supplemental data source...no more. Technique and teaching should be left to real teachers. I think Tedeschi would agree.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent pressure point text.
By M. Scott on January 13, 2002
Format: Paperback
I stumbled across this book last year before it was released and hed to wait to see if my purchase was a good one. Well, it is. This text has the clearest, most comprehensive and understandable charts of the acupoints that i have ever seen. Tedeschi also covers western theories of health and healing also making this book a good basic resource on human anatomy.
The book is structured very well, with the sequence of the charts following the flow of Ki through the meridians. Each of the meridians has a separate chart and a very useful table covering the associated points and other major connections between each meridian.The ying and yang meridians are also cleraly identified.
This book is a great text for identification of and theory surrounding the pressure points. Myself, being a martial artist have recommended it to my instructor and he has also purchased a copy. an excellent book. (It must be said though that any reference text also needs an experienced instructor to support the questions and / or problems encountered by the student.)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Lot of Information for a Good Price
By Gift on January 11, 2001
Format: Paperback
I recently purchased the book "Essential Anatomy For Healing and the Martial Arts" by Marc Tedeschi. I had a gift certificate that I receive for Christmas and was browsing through AMAZON.COM looking for some vital point books. I stumbled on this book and took a chance with it. This is a GREAT book of charts. The book is not much more then several very well done charts of the human body. The author divides the book into two sections. The first sections is on Modern Western Medicine (MWM) and in this section there are several charts of the bodies various systems. The second part is the Eastern or TCM view of the body. Each meridian has several great charts with point location and detail. If anyone has seen the book by Felix Mann called " The Atlas of acupuncture: Points and Meridians in Relation to Surface Anatomy", then you will recall some of these charts.
OK, OK....before anyone says this I will beat you to it.........YES! You can get this same information from other sources (Gray's Anatomy, Netter's books, Mann's books,etc. etc.) BUT here it is all in one place at your fingertips
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3.0 out of 5 starsNot enough martial arts content
By L. A. Kane VINE VOICE on November 22, 2004
Format: Paperback
I think that the title is a bit misleading. This book does have lots of good information compiled into one source. The problem is that it is more of an anatomy book than a martial arts resource. There are good illustrations though I do not think that there is enough depth or analysis in the surrounding text. Discussions of meridians and pressure points are more suited to acupressure/acupuncture students than to martial artists who are the target of perhaps 10% of the content. There is almost nothing, for example, about how martial techniques work from a bio-mechanical perspective, nor how applications affect the body medically. If you want a good overview that compares and contrasts Western and Eastern thought it's a decent reference, but if you want an in-depth study suitable for serious martial artists this is probably not your best resource.

Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction
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5.0 out of 5 starsWonderful book

This is a wonderful book: it has many helpful and beautiful illustrations for both Western and Eastern perspective, is to the point and without new-agey posturing and... Read more

Published 6 months ago by C. Habeck
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book and very informative for any martial artist that is interested in anatomy and pressure points.

Published 7 months ago by Cassie Bullock
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Very useful.

Published 7 months ago by bryan ramsey
5.0 out of 5 starsA must have book for Black Belts

Excellent resource for pressure point fighting and… healing. This book consists of both Western Style Medicine's Anatomy and Eastern Medicine's Anatomy ( acupuncture/acupressure... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Rocquel Bye
5.0 out of 5 starsclean book covers the subject matter well,

clean book covers the subject matter well, timely arrival will use vendor again

Published 14 months ago by Jaime S
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Very technical but is doing what I need it to.

Published 17 months ago by Pandichen
5.0 out of 5 starsLots of beautiful illustrations of the acupuncture points

Lots of beautiful illustrations of the acupuncture points, very useful to learn the points and some martial arts points as well.

Published 20 months ago by Starlight Moonbeam
5.0 out of 5 starsTextbook format

Marc Tedeschi has been doing this for quite sometime.

This read more like a text book to me but had invaluable information.

Published on December 27, 2013 by Jerry R. Hedrick
5.0 out of 5 starshappy to have item

I enjoyed the item and hope other persons may be my be inten to buy this item also, it is helpful for work I think

Published on December 9, 2013 by shane cook
5.0 out of 5 starsNice point of view

Very complete. It very nice to see the eastern medicine on a book. It's explained on a very clear way.

Published on September 7, 2013 by Braulio

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