by klonk on Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:56 pm
It is one of only a few martial arts books that passes the Klonk test. You can reasonably expect to learn to do what it says from the text, the illustrations and partner practice. It's not a whole lot of jiu jitsu, in fact it's a basic bag of tricks, but a few schooolyard bullies got handed some surprises on account of that book.
I think Nakae understood kuzushi better than anyone who wrote about it since.
And, yeah, I was lucky to happen upon it. For a while what was going on was that, as soon as I had to return the book, my buddy would check it out again, and back and forth until we had worked out the moves.
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klonk on Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I define internal martial art as unusual muscle recruitment and leave it at that. If my definition is incomplete, at least it is correct so far as it goes.