The 100 Deadliest Karate Moves

Product Description

Learn how to fight to the death utilizing the 100 most lethal kicks, shutos and blows known to the world's greatest karate masters. More than 100 dramatic photos cover snap kicks, heel kicks, vital points of the head and chest, shutos, palm heels, ridge hands and streetfighting with karate.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #1507619 in Books
* Published on: 1982-01
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 88 pages

Customer Reviews

Deadlieest moves? Dubious at best. A Marine or Special Forces manula might suffice3
Additionally, executing most of the things in this book are for not only an expert but also for one who is currently practicing. Trying things like high kicks when not fit enough might be more likely to hurt yourself. Executing even the hand techniques in a book like this does actually require intensive practice over many years - better to maybe pick one or two particular things appropriate to height, stature and fitness level - and practice them like a fiend - on a punchbag or similar - big difference between feeling the impact of smacking something and not doing so. For instance, the front cover has a dude stretching in a way that could do a while ago but I'd probably break something if I tried that now :) And some of this doesn't really look too much like Westernized types of competition karate - might be traditional mixed in with street fighting techniques? I'm guessing here but this book's a bit odd really and seems a little misplaced in the modern era as one of the other reviews suggests.

If I can kill someone so can you!5
This is the best book I have ever seen! I found it under a pile of reading material in a monk's bathroom while visiting Mongolia. I read it cover to cover during one morning's crap. Immediatly, I felt its power! I killed the monk and his whole extended family (who were over for a birthday party). I killed my way out of China south, through Laos then into Thailand, all the way down to Sinapore, over into Indonesia and eventually into East Timor. I killed over 400 Chinese, 350 Laos, 190 Thai, 50 or so in Sinapore (I was fearful of arrest), 2900 Indonesian and at least 96% of the population of East Timor and a panda. I tried useing each move equally but found certain moves far more deadly than others. 1 particular move took far too long to kill, over 30 minutes of exersion, but I'll let you learn on your own which one - you will get more out of it. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to break out of their mind numbing media fed brainwashed self absorbed paralysing fearful state of insta-gratification consumeristic oil buying loser existance and start killing.

A horrible reminder of the 70-80ies martial art craze1
Wow. I bought this book by mailorder during the mid 1980ies, before starting to practice karate, and even knowing nothing about karate back then, I immediately realised it was worthless and that I had wasted my money.

Now after practicing karate for close to 20 years, Im amazed that this junk is still in print.

I actualy gave my copy away to a friend who collects "questionable" martial-art litterature, because I was ashamed to have it on my bookshelves. I borrowed it back for this review.

It starts out with a 1 (or 2 if you are lucky) picture description of a few very basic karate techniques, This means you are shown the moment the technique hits and nothing more. Together with this is a short description of its effect. One example is a picture of a knee touching the face, with the text: "Damage: broken nose, crached teeth, broken jaw
Result: attacker will be knocked out for several minutes."
That is all the description or explanation there is, and that is fairly typical for the "100" techniques listed in the book.

The technique shown on the cover, is described in the book with that picture (and only that single picture) and the text
"Damage: loss of breath.
Result: death, unless pressure is released."
And nothing more!

At the end of the book are a few "situations" where the techniques are shown applied. If I ignore the horribly unrealistic situations and applications, I question the knowledge in how you can learn how to defeat 3 opponent in three pictures and the text:
"Situation Two: You are getting into your car with your wife when two thugs attack you with a crowbar, trying to kill you.
Response: You both react with kicks; the man with a SIDE KICK to the face; the woman with a BACK KICK to the groin. You then finish them off with STOMPS to the throat and neck."

I could also question the legal aspects of recommending stomping on a downed opponents throat and neck.

All in all this book is to be avoided by anyone who wish to learn martial arts of any kind -be it for self defense or competition.

There are many good books about karate and martial arts out there, but this book is not among them. The only use for this book is as a source of amusement over how incredibly bad it is.
You learn more Martial Arts by playing computer fighting games on your PC.

If it was possible to rate something a negative star, I would!