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Title: A Satisfying Read
Review: Although a bit short, Te Waza is a good read. The plot is put together nicely and characters, for the most part, are believable and interesting.My only criticism (and it is not of the author) is that this book is seriously in need of an editor, or if it had one, the editor needs to be gently slapped. There are quite a few errors in the book; it is an awful lot like a first draft of a novel but good none the less. If not for the typo's and sentence errors, I would have given this novel 5 stars.Now that the criticism is out of the way; E.C. Dearing is a good solid writer with an extremely open minded view of the martial arts. Martial artists tend to fall into two camps: Traditionalists and Non-traditionalists. Dearing seems able to see the value in all of the approaches and seems to appreciate that each has its strengths and weaknesses.If you are a martial artist or if you are at all interested in martial arts, you will definitely enjoy Te Waza. I highly recommend it.
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