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# Muye Dobo Tongji: Complete Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts

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- **What is this?** Muye Dobo Tongji: Complete Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts by duk-moo yije-ga parksang h kim ph.d.
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Muye Dobo Tongji: Complete Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A gem of a book for historical weaponry enthusiasts!
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2001*

Wow!  What an awesome book!  I have always, as far as I can remember since beginning my martial arts training 15 years ago, wanted to know how martial arts were REALLY practiced back when they were really used in warfare.  This book is a complete answer to the question.  Now, many of you, if you live in the Western world, are probably most familiar with Japanese arts like Judo, Aikido, Kendo and Karate (originally meant "Chinese-hand", and came from the Ryukyu islands).  This book, of course, is Korean, but that should in no way diminish its interest for you.  Korea was a unified kingdom ever since about 700 AD.  Japan arguably never truly was until the Meiji restoration in the 19th Century.  So, the Koreans produced a textbook for their military whereas the Japanese kept their techniques secret from each other, and there are few traditions today in Japan that keep them alive (Kendo, Judo and the rest are modern creations meant for modern times).  This is also, naturally, the case in Korea as well, BUT there is this book that has preserved the ancient techniques as they were back then for us today.  The book describes in detail many series of techniques performed with the whole gamut of weapons, from fists to two-sword techniques on horseback.  It even describes contests and games that can be used to sharpen skill and these include things, interestingly enough, like soccer and polo among others.  I think in most cases it would not be possible to simply pick up the book and recreate whole forms in the backyard, but you can certainly learn and practice alot of individual techniques with the book in hand or conveniently placed nearby.  In this way you can learn many of the techniques used by the ancient soldiers of Korea in their battles against Chinese, Yalu tribesmen, Japanese pirates and invading Mongols.  I found the section on the Yedo (the so-called "short sword" which is what the Japanese call the Katana) to be particularly useful due to its detailed explanations of dozens of postures and attack/defense techniques.  Generally, the Korean arts have received much less attention than the Japanese and Chinese, and this is probably due to the fact that the Japanese came up with popular sporting versions of their arts earlier than the Koreans and that Chinese culture is so strong worldwide through the cinema etc.  The fact of the matter is that the Koreans beat off both the Chinese and the Japanese repeatedly throughout history, having been conquered only once before the 20th Century, and that was by the Mongols, whose victorious cavalry techniques they later adopted.  During the Japanese invasions of the late 16th Century, the Koreans were first caught off guard, but soon rallied and through guerilla action on land by warrior monks and soldiers, and through armoured naval technology and tactics at sea defeated the Japanese in spite of the fact that they had the advantage of being equipped with the modern Portuguese-style arquebus and cannon.  Another thing I really like about the book is that it speaks well of Chinese and Japanese techniques, many of which are adopted by the authors for instruction to the Korean troops.  Rather than be held up by silly pettiness and pride, the scholars of this book make full use of other nations' techniques wherever they are useful.  "Know thy enemy, know thyself" as Sun Tzu wrote.  Foreign weapons are also displayed and described, and the history of each weapon is given as exhaustively as possible from available sources.  If you are the sort of person who always wondered how Korean halberds, swords, spears, shields, staves, and so on were used, and you want to learn how to use them yourself, this is THE BOOK.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Muye Dobo Tongji
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2011*

I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Korean martial arts or Korean history.  It caught my attention after watching the Korean historical dramas "Yi San" and "Warrior Baek Dong-soo" both of which mentioned why and how the original book was directed by the Jeosun King to be created by his top generals and security force.  Having it translated into English is excellent for anyone who is not a native Korean speaker, and Amazon having this edition in paperback for $18.21 is great since I've seen people asking upwards of $400 for a hardback edition on ebay.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2008*

The description is hard to understand, but I loved it as the words are exact translation without any input from the translator.  It was really nice that there was a section where all of the moves were strung together to show which direction and where to spin.  The major problem I had was that the images goes right to left and pages read left to right.  It really needs to stick to one way or another, but then again I suppose that might have been because original pictures where ordered right to left.

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