Seven-Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu

The book is by one of my favorite wu shu authors; Dr Leung Ting

I had this book 35 years ago on my language but I lost it. Long story. So I wanted to get it again.

Highly diverse and gives basics and part of the form or taolu as well. Informative book.

Great book. Thanks

Excellent book!!

This book gets three stars because the techniques are accurate and highly illustrated, but the book also has a number of frustrating aspects, which I'll talk about shortly. It has an old style charm, as it was written in a time when martial arts books were not well edited. There are numerous cases of broken English in the intros. It was never re-edited in later editions. In a way this adds to the allure of the book, but its also distracting. Thankfully, most of the book is pictures. :)I get the feeling this book would be much better if they took all the photos and made a flip book. Seriously. It can be very difficult to follow the forms here, based on these static images, no matter how many there are. They need to be seen in motion. I'd rather see this on DVD, than in a book. As a book, its lacking, despite it's authenticity. A book is a training tool, and it gets three stars because it falls short of the many solid, modern texts on martial arts that exist today.

The 1st thing most martial artists will tell you is that you can’t learn properly from any book. And that’s true. But when I was at the peak of my kung fu phase in the early 80s (about 12, 13 yo), I was all Over this book!Hastily put together and somewhat shoddy presentation (though the cover is eye catching enough) but a decent reference for those curious about the style. (Note- I emphasize *reference*. Not a substitute for a teacher)

Is good dvd