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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Into martial arts? Then you should also train your mind!, 29 Mar 1999
By A Customer
This book is EXECELLENT. It gives a very good background and overview of what is essential to understand behind the physical aspects of martial arts: you and the martial world. To be proficient in an 'art' you need to also think and understand. Martial Arts is exactly that.However, wether due to my immaturity on the subject or just failing to see Peter's view and his interpretation of some of the very educational aspects he covered: I was left feeling confused by some of his arguments, beliefs and ideas which I believe are personal to him and not the Martial Arts. But I said this book is excellent and I meant it: I would be 'poorer' for not having read it. In Martial Arts terms, if you know what soft and hard is: fine. But if you don't know what 'ki' 'body-breath-mind' 'spontanity' are, or you are always interested in hearing somebody else's view on this - I can highly recommend this book. Even if some of it I cannot comprehend or I am unsatisfied with - particularly Peter daring to create a view of 'thinking' between East and West that quite frankly doesn't work on paper (I would love to discuss it with him). The fact I have taken time to write this and I am not an internet surfer, the fact that this is my second copy of the book after the first was damaged by water (after I carried it around on holiday with me), gives you a good indication that I believe I got something from reading it - as well as enjoying the book (which contains some excellent illustrations and photographs). In summary, I enjoyed reading it because it informed and stimulated my thinking: what more can you or should you ask from a book.
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