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Here is a complete training program designed to help the aspiring sword fighter become proficient with his weapon of choice and truly dangerous to an adversary. Covers mental conditioning, air-cutting drills, slow-motion and exaggerated-range-of-motion practice, extra-heavy sword drills, isometric and resistance training, point-sensitivity drills, aggressiveness and power training, speed and accuracy drills and more.
About the Author
Fred Hutchinson is an avid martial artist who focuses on practical, systematic training in traditional combat methods for use in effective modern self-defense.
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The most important thing when choosing a sword is to pick one you feel comfortable with physically and psychologically. Read the first page
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The most important thing when choosing a sword is to pick one you feel comfortable with physically and psychologically. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First off this book is not a swordsmanship manual - there are no techniques on display, no particular style of sword or martial art favoured by the author. If you want to "learn how to sword fight" this is not the book for you.
What this book contains is a series of training drills designed to improve your speed, accuracy and striking power with an edged weapon as well as exercises to build up the strength and suppleness of your wrist and forearm. The author advocates the use of the sword for self-defense, which isn't really a good idea but it does give the book the interesting angle of seeing swordsmanship as a form of combat instead of a sport or hobby and has interesting information of fighting from crouching or prone positions. It might be thin but there's a lot of information packed into it which would be of use to martial artists training with a variety of weapons, not just the sword, although the quality is let down by the extremely poor illustrations.
Overall it's an interesting read for the serious martial artist and might add a new dimension to your weapons training.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This work is a comprehensive and realistic introduction to the defense of your home and person (and pets) using edged weaponary; providing you live shoulder to shoulder with either Walter Mitty or Mad Max!
The frankly humourous illustrations of how to wield both sword and pistol (for "home defense"!) and the (presumablely unintentional) labeling of a dog as a left-handed weapon , are capped only by the idea that one should be attacked by 'Bad-Guys' (who are presumably wearing black stetsons ... or towels on their heads) whilst walking one's dog in a wood.
As for the author's advice regarding maximum aggression and going for the kill; obvious the practitioner would view sewing mail-bags as an important skill to aquire or wished to become intimately acqainted with Bubba from 'C' Wing. In short much of the advice in this tome has no evidence to back it up, and is likely to end up in you becoming either very incarcerated or very dead.
The above aside the author does make a number of vaild points regarding the benefit of weapons drill over "meditating under waterfalls" (meow!), the possibility of one's blade becoming lodged in one's victim (or Bad Guy), and some novel physical training methods.
In summary, a must-buy if you are likely to be hacking foe-men limb from limb in anything over than your imagination. Otherwise read and return to the shelf
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book sadly lacks the depth to be a training manual, nor the breadth to be a good book of anecdotes. Anyone looking for training information would be better to pick a sword martial art and adapt from there.
Whereas if it's general banter about swords you're looking for, I'd suggest the "Secret History of the Sword", which has a great deal of information from throughout the history of the sword and it's related arts.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
training not technique!
As some other reviewers have stated, this book is about training rather than techniques. This is a manual about building strength,dexterity and accuracy rather than learning... Read more
Published on 15 Sep 2006 by peacekeeper
a great training aid
I think that the reason some others rate this book so low is that they expect it to be something it is not. The book is purely training drills for realistic use of the sword. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2005 by "gdsf007"
Very Poor
This book is aimed at those that wish to carry a sword around on a day to day basis for 'self defence'. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2003 by Jeremy Draper
Deceptively thorough
Don't let it's thinness deceive. It is crammed full of exercises and drills to hone your skills as a proficient swordsman. Read more
Published on 20 July 2001 by "sillius_soddus"
a very good training tool
This is a great book on training techniques, not only for the sword, but as well ( with a little bit of adaptation ) for the knife, stick, or any weapon user.
Published on 27 Nov 1998
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