Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

Excellent Hapkido Self Defense Text Book:

Having practice the martial arts for over ten years, I find this book to be an excellent resource for both the Korean martial art of hapkido and self defense. The history section is great. The ki section is very interesting. The self defense section is very detailed and teaches true hapkido. This book is a necessary addition to anyone library. Recommended.

Great Resource:

The history of Hapkido and the Korean martial arts presented in this book, by itself, is well worth its very low... price tag. But, more than just an amazingly honest and revealing history section, something no other book on Hapkido presents, and I have read them all, Shaw details little known Hapkido Ki development exercises, energy coordination understandings, and numerous self defense techniques. Again, making this book well worth its low price.

Like many of us in the martial arts, I am an avid reader... more info

Understandably Good:

As one of the few practitioners of Hapkido in Hong Kong I have read Scott Shaw's articles on Hapkido in magazines like Black Belt and Taekwondo Times for years. So, it was no surpirse to me when I picked up this book that I found it to be well put together and a great source of information on this advanced system of self-defense. There are two things I really like about this book. The first is the presentation of the true history of Hapkdio. The second is that each self-defense technique is clearly and... more info

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