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Summary: Go take lessons!
Comment: This book is getting a lot of flak for not imparting Bruce Lee's devastating martial arts secrets, but of course the flaw here is that you're trying to learn martial arts from a book. It's fine as an overview if you're curious about the basic mechanics involved, but it's not the modern equivalent of the mystical ancient scrolls you've been taught to expect in those late night cable tv kung-fu movie marathons. At best, this book should only be used as a supplemental to formal instruction. If you bought this book expecting to learn this (or any) technique without real-life instruction, you have no right to whine after your friends beat you up.
Put simply, if you're serious about learning this technique you need to learn it from a person, not a paperback that you found on the internet.
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Summary: Great little manual!
Comment: Great book on these mechanics! I've learned similar mechanics in Wing Chun, similar but not the same. To a martial artist, the mind and breath exercises described herein are things that could be taken into other areas of training, rather than just this technique.
If such a technique can be learned from a book, it can be learned from this book, but one must build the skill patiently and a step at a time, as it is explained.
I don't know if this is a good buy for a regular person, but it's a treasure to an impassioned martial artist.
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Summary: tha rewiew
Comment: Awesome book on the one and three inch punch. THESE punching techniques are deadly and needs a lot of practice to perform it the way De'mile does it. Buy it if you want to know how to keep inside yourself a very strong knockpunch[if used on the jaw or solar plexus}that can be usefull against an physical fight
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Summary: I couldn't get it to work for me...
Comment: I got this book a few years ago hoping I could learn to do this infamous technique. I read the thing in less than an hour and tried following the guide and could not get mine to work. I am not saying that it won't work for you ($5? Come on, it's just $5, if it were $20 I'd be upset). It may or may not, some people have had it work.However, I later took up Wing Tsun (Bruce Lee's art) and realized my mistake. The technique takes all of 5 minutes to be taught it, and then perfecting it takes a long time. There are no exercises needed like explained in the book.
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Summary: Nothing special, didn't work
Comment: I originally bought this book a couple years ago hoping I could learn this parlor trick of a technique to show off to people at parties. I read the book several times, but couldn't figure it out. Later I took up Wing Tsun (which contains the punch) and realized after being taught the punch, it is nothing like described in the book. .... Nothing great in my opinion.
