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Title: a disappointment, even for a martial arts book
Review: There is very little text to explain any of the techniques, merely a series of photographs for each, and a page wasted (left blank) for "seminar/practice notes" after each technique is presented. Hard to believe an editor actually let this go to press, but maybe these are sold at discount during workshops.Secondly, there are only sixteen techniques in the book. Nineteen bucks for sixteen waza is pretty steep, especially when the waza are not really covered in depth.Anyone interested in hanbo should not waste any time on this book, but instead get Hatsumi's Stick Fighting manual, which covers over 50 techniques and contains text a whole lot more informative, even translated from the original Japanese.
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