Extra Meridians, Points, and More, The (Encyclopedia of Dim-Mak S.)

This book is a well written and researched, and is a must for a serious study on the bodies vital points, it's only downfall is that you really do need to buy volume 1 to get the most from it (...) These two encyclapedias togetherwith Tsubo: Vital Points of Oriental Therapy by Katsusuke Serizawa make a wonderful collection that give the martial artist a good understanding of how each point reacts to varying pressures, from healing and preserving life to causing immense pain and taking life.

One final thing that Earle points out throughout the book is how soft styles of striking are the most effective, from past experience I would agree with this point and to truley get the most from this book you should be training in these styles. If you train in hard styles you may find this book is of limited use.


Encyclopedia of Dim Mak the extra meridians   May 31, 2002
2 out of 5 found this review helpful

Where the first book had 418 pages this volume has 127. Having said that this contains some of the more devastating strikes, ones which do more damage than just pain. Even more information on the internal qi system as if the reams and reams of information in the first volume wasn't enough, and when you read this you'll realise it wasn't. This book only gets 4 stars from me because of the unnecessarily graphic drawings showing the location of governer vessel 1 and conceptor vessel 1.