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Customer Reviews
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Drillion Dollar Book
For Basics on the Martial arts this book is worth every penny!
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Low Quality of Readability
While this book presents an average knowledge, and basic drills, it does so with hard to see images-B/W of maximum 5/8 inch tall or 1.5 cm tall. The quality of the media is very poor, they could have make full-size or half-size page images for better viewing of the gripping, sword cutting angles, etc. I cannot recommend this book, when much better quality production are available on this website. Sorry.
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Excellent!
A clear book with the basis drills without sticking any martial arts shool in particular.
If you just try to practice the first steps into japanese sword, off from any particular shool, this is your book
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Extraordinarily average
Despite the fact that it claims to have some advanced techniuqes this really is a very basic book of sword drills. The writing is adequate, the knowledge is for the most part correct, the pictures while small and elementary are serviceable, and the information is okay but frankly nothing in this book stands out as special at all. There are stepping/footwork drills, solo drills, and two person drills that are usable as a supplement for just about any Japanese sword art. There is nothing truly wrong with this book but in my mind it is about 100 pages of extraordinary averageness. Find it used if you want to pick up a copy.
Lawrence Kane
Author of Surviving Armed Assaults, The Way of Kata, and Martial Arts Instruction
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For the record
For the record...
This book is NOT for someone that is trying to learn on their own.
You need to be around someone that has taken some lessons & has at least a basic idea of what they are doing. (Or know yourself)
There are a few details left out that but if you're in a school they tell you what this book doesn't.
This book is what it says "practice drills" nothing more.
Others have comments about footwork not being able to tell which foot is left & right.
I have taken kendo but was also shown some iaido by a friend.
In both, your rt. foot is always forward. (Unless you're doing something special like sonyko) (I probably spelled that wrong but it is the bowing sequence you do in kendo before you spar)
I only give this book a 4 because the pictures are really small.
The information in the text is good & deserves a 5.
As a side note I am not sure this book is worth more then 10 dollars. (my friend bought his used for 7, I would not pay more myself after seeing it)
But it is a good book.
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