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The Complete Book of Shaolin: Comprehensive Program for Physical, Emotional
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Necronos
Long-Haired Sword Guy
Registered: October 2002
Location: Bonn, Germany
Posts: 1324
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Review Date: Mon May 24, 2004
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Review by Thomas Stoeppler, aka Necronos
When I first bought the book at one of Wong Kiew Kits courses, it was my idea to have a good refernce (and reminder) of his Chi Kung methods. However, the book contains much more and should be of general interest to everyone studying the martial arts.
The book starts with background info on the Shaolin Temple, its origin and the beginning of the Shaolin martial arts.
The next part of the book contains a lot of good information on the Kung Fu practices – application, strategy and tactics as well as stance work and a solo set which can be used as a sparring routine as well. Although the information presented is of very high quality, the applications/movements itself are not broken down to great detail, so martial artists that look for exact mechanics of shaolin applications will have to look somewhere else.
Wong Kiew Kit also adresses traditional chinese weapons and the history of those. He briefly shows some of the strategies used to employ those, although not many applications there, its clearly not the focus of the book.
For me, as a reader, the most interesting part of the book is about the “internal” aspects of Shaolin Kung Fu. The Author shows a great variety of excercises to develop internal force, be it hard (iron palm/iron body) or soft force (for example “cosmos palm”, as he calls it). This section is really well-done, anyone familiar with Chi Kung should take a lot of good stuff out of this, although it should be useful for beginners as well.
At the end of the book, Wong Kiew Kit adresses meditation practices and the spiritual dimension of the Shaolin arts, also explained very good and understandable.
On top of it, the book contains a few inspiring anecdotes of Kung Ku skills, which serve a good purpose in understaning the traditional philosophy of teaching and training, which is at times enjoyable to read.
This brings me to the end of the Review – overall, its a very informative book, with good content. The only thing I would like to see more of – is more detail in appliactions and some training methods. Considering the book already has around 350 pages, one can´t complain though.
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