Hand-Fighting Manual for Self-Defense and Sport Karate (Fred Neff's Self Defense Library)

by James E. Reid and Fred Neff

Discusses hand-to-hand fighting techniques drawn from karate and other Asian martial arts useful for self-defense or tournament competition. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822511541
• ISBN13: 9780822511540
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Lerner Pub Group
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

The hand as an instrument of self-defense well explained

The Hand-Fighting Manual by Fred Neff is a work that explores various uses of the hand for self-defense. Hand blows from Karate, kempo, kung-fu and western boxing are included in this book with clear easy to understand directions and matching pictures. The book is very well organized. Its content includes basic hand positions, stances, body movement,blocks,punches and strikes. This is a book you can read and then come back to again and again while practicing to perfect your execution, so it earns my high recommendation.

Solid Explanation of Hand Techniques

Being a martial arts book junkie, I appreciate the distinctive simplicity and effectiveness for use of Fred Neff's Hand-Fighting Manual. The Hand-Fighting Manual provides a very readable explanation for using the hand and arms in fighting. The text breaks down each blow into component parts along with supplying matching pictures. This is not only useful for learning blows, but perfecting form and power in the techniques you already know how to do. Anyone interested in the martial arts should enjoy this outstanding book.