Product Description

At last, the long awaited book by Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming. This health and martial arts training guide reveals the secrets of Chinese internal power development. Loaded with photos and drawings, this book is destined to be the bible of martial power training. Shaolin White Crane is the root of Okinawan Karate, and is practical for all martial arts styles. 450 photos and illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61181 in Books
• Published on: 1996-08-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

For Serious Students
A a martial Art is not learnt but is practised. Although some of the conclusions to tie in traditional concepts with modern science sometimes have an extremely tenuous link, this book gives a good explaination of chinese medical/martial theory, and allows a decent grounding.

From there, many forms are provided to practise. NOTE, PRACTISE. This book is only for those that wish to spend time learning the forms shown in order to reap benefits, it's not for those that have no patience.

review
this is an excellent book and is pretty ambitious.

the book tries to explain internal power and external power using western medicine terms as well as traditional chinese medicine concepts. in the main i think that the book succeeds and gives an insight into the southern chinese martial arts.

the forms shown in the book are clear, but the emphasis of the book is on history and theory - not so much on technique

the reference in the title regarding karate may be a bit misleading as the connection between karate and white crane is only alluded to in one small section of the book. having said this, the book should be interesting for anyone who is interested in bunkai from karate or indeed taekwondo or anyone interested in trying to trace the history of those arts.

A little less converstaion........
This book is a serious attempt at explaining the deeper aspects of white crane kung fu but unfortunatly there is too much explaining about the explaining! there are hardly any forms or techniques in this book and the techniques that are shown are basic to most southern styles. I would like to have SEEN some more of the forms and techniques curious to white crane rather than read endless explantions about theory.