--- product_id: 5081579 title: "Hapkido: Traditions, Philosophy, Technique" price: "COP 1115784" currency: COP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co/products/5081579-hapkido-traditions-philosophy-technique store_origin: CO region: Colombia --- # Hapkido: Traditions, Philosophy, Technique **Price:** COP 1115784 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Hapkido: Traditions, Philosophy, Technique - **How much does it cost?** COP 1115784 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co](https://www.desertcart.co/products/5081579-hapkido-traditions-philosophy-technique) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 1136 Pages - 9000 Photos - 2000 Techniques ----- The most compre­hensive text ever written on a single martial art. Superbly organized, highly informative, profusely illustrated. Indispensable to martial artists of virtually any style. -----This ground-breaking work is the first to comprehensively document the traditions, philosophy, and techniques of one of the world's most varied, exciting, and practical martial arts--Hapkido. More than 9,000 photographs introduce over 2,000 martial techniques, including strikes, kicks, blocks, avoiding movements, holds, joint locks, chokes, throws, falls, tumbling, ground fighting, and weapons. Numerous closeups show precise grips, leverage methods, pressure points, hitting surfaces, and direction of force. In addition to self-defense techniques, chapters are included on East Asian philosophy, martial arts history, anatomy, meditation, healing, and pressure point fighting, as well as in-depth, previously unpublished interviews with the world's preeminent Hapkido Grandmasters and renowned Grandmasters of related martial arts. Because of similarities between Hapkido and many other martial arts, including Taekwondo, Jujutsu, Aikido, Judo, and Tai Chi Chuan, this book is a useful reference for practitioners of all martial arts styles, from novices to masters. This unique work of exceptional quality is the definitive text on Hapkido, and a classic of martial arts literature. View sample pages, read book reviews, or get more information at marctedeschi.com ----- Review: Now THIS is how you structure a book to learn a martial art from! - This mighty tome and the dynamic of presentation through which it presents its sillibus is how you write a martial arts book for those who want to self-learn when there is no hope of finding a teacher or dojang anywhere in the region, let alone one that's not an after school sport-McDojo. If you have no other source of instruction in the whole region for the actual style as intended for its true and genuine puropse, THIS is THEE kind of book you want to try and book-learn from. Yes, THIS ONE. Marc Tedeschi presents his material in a properly segmented, modular, almost megolythically detailed body of instruction that encompasses nearly his entire art itself. THE WHOLE THING. He even publilshed a supporting series of 9 stand-alone booklets that cover the exact testing requirements for each belt level up to 4th-degree black, and the 9th of these books covers promotion beyond that point. And those booklets are equally as detailed in their presentation format as this one. If you have this large beefy tome of knowledge and those 9 ranking booklets together, you have Marc Tedeschi's entire Hapkido school in book form to self-train from for those who have no choice but to do it that way. Note however that certain assertions about trying to do so are HALF-correct; You can't easily learn martial arts just from READING a book, no matter how detailed or well-structured in its material. It's putting the book's instructions into physical practice in trial-and-error sessions that can reveal the rest of the little nuances for you. You can even alieviate many of the issue of sparring-enabled discovery of a lot of those nuances by learning to incorporate the Mook Jong wooden Kung Fo dummy into your practice of whatever fighting techniques are instructed in the book in front of you... most of, anyway. But the point is that the better qualilty the book, the more details you have to work from when trying to glean martial skill from that book when you have no choice but to try and do it entirely alone like I do. Secondly, there is also no such thing as learning martial arts from just ONE book on the subject. Even this huge book, while its level of instructional detail comes very close, stops just short of being enough to know EVERY little thing you need to know to attempt to gain real martial skill in the art or style. BUT: When you start to include other books that cover the missing categories of knowledge into the total combined martial arts instructional library you're self-training from, you start getting closer to forming the more complete picture after all. In my case, not only do I own this book and all 9 of the supporting belt-ranking booklets - I also own Marc Tedeschi's suppliment volume "Essential Anatomy." But I didn't stop there; See, while this book and 'Essential Anatomy' perfectly map out WHERE every pressure point is on all the meridian lines, they do not go into extensive hard-medical-science details about the exact effects of striking each of those points. Michale Patrick's book "Masters Series: Martial Science & Pressure Points" is however a 600+ page book that is exclusively a dictionarized volume solely on that subject. It lists each pressure point on the human body, shows exactly where it is and how to strike it in the form a photo showing the author doing so with a training partner, and gives a scienticfic description of the exact medical effects of that striking point. Get that book to suppliment the big Hapkido book my Marc Tedeschi, and now you approach the cusp of having the completely fleshed out Hapkido training corriculum. But for me it STILL does not stop there; There are even books on exact step-by-step processes for learning proper form and technical correctness on ones own, when it comes too such minutia as postute or the exact positioning of the fist and shoulder during a punch, ect. For example, I also own and train from a book titled "Dynamic Movement," which is part of the Karate Science series. In it, there are exact descriptions of not only how to position/angle your fists/shoulders/ankles/feet/knees and so on, but how to know on your own if you're getting it right by sensing how your wrists/ankles/knees/sense of balance/etc are supposed to feel to you when you are doing it right versus doing it wrong. Then there's the companion book to that one, titled "Fight like a Physicist." This one goes into detail on the hard Newtonian sciences of leverage, rotational forces, weight and balance, momention forces and how to use them in your movements toward what exact fighting purposes, etc. - It even goes into detail on exactly how breaking techniques for boards and bricks actually works and how it doesn't. I also have another book called "Iron Power Palm: 90 days to skull smashing power." This book is exclusively dedicated to exact step-by-step instructions for hard-science hand and body toughening methods used in breaking skills, and the raw science of why those methods work. There is even a section containing formulas for making your own Dit-Daw-Jow linaments using American-sourced equivalent ingredients to the original Chinese ones if you can't easily get supplies of those. Next I have my stack-o physical fitness manuals and books, one of which is titled "Ultimate Flexibility for Martial Arts," and another stretching-related one titled "Secrets of the Pelvis for martial arts." Having those two books together has helped me master proper martial arts stretching to effectively MAKE those high kicks become combat-practical. I've heard many accomplished masters of this art or that one all agree that the tool is only as useful as he who knows how/when to weild it, and I agree with that. As long as your fight strategy A-game is on point as far as fighting your fight (not your opponent's) to set him up just right, you can lead him into your perfect opportunity to flying roundhouse kick him over backwards at full power in a real fight. It's the preceding setup techniques and strategies that get you there, not just being physically faster or more frantic in your sheer will to try and haphazardly force such a kick into completion through his defense. And so I submit to you that having the right COMBINATION of different martial arts books, each one covering a whole category of martial knowledge and minutia that the other books in your training library don't cover... this is what makes all your training books work together to more effectively offer you the complete picture. After that it's your own hard work and eanest trial-and-error efforts in which you must get serious about those efforts, that will do the rest in gaining you the levels of skill you hope to achieve or at least begin to approach... if your location and situation leave you with absolutely no choice but to do it all on your own without an available dojang or instructor in or near your area. But as far as starting at the core knowledge of the particular martial art you're interested in learning, if it's Hapkido at its finest, then I can speak first hand that Marc Tedeschi's "Hapkido: History, Philosopy, Technique" is the finest example of the best kind of starting point in book form. If you want to learn real Hapkido but don't have access to a living instructor, then buy this book. But do more than that, like I did: Do your research to learn what other additional categories of information and skills are needed to master a martial art, find out what books by what authors will contain sufficiently detailed instructional material in those categories and buy them, REAR READ READ and internalize, and then put it all into physical experimentive practice as you go, and correct what needs correcting based on what the whole collective knowledge base in all those books says, and good luck to you. Review: Possibly the most comprehensive source I have ever possessed. - This is more then simply a book, this is a lifelong wealth of historical information, traditions, knowledge, philosophy, and technique. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #498,470 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #225 in Sports Encyclopedias #327 in Sports Reference (Books) #963 in Martial Arts (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 230 Reviews | ## Images ![Hapkido: Traditions, Philosophy, Technique - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71sam2PLZEL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Now THIS is how you structure a book to learn a martial art from! *by K***S on January 23, 2025* This mighty tome and the dynamic of presentation through which it presents its sillibus is how you write a martial arts book for those who want to self-learn when there is no hope of finding a teacher or dojang anywhere in the region, let alone one that's not an after school sport-McDojo. If you have no other source of instruction in the whole region for the actual style as intended for its true and genuine puropse, THIS is THEE kind of book you want to try and book-learn from. Yes, THIS ONE. Marc Tedeschi presents his material in a properly segmented, modular, almost megolythically detailed body of instruction that encompasses nearly his entire art itself. THE WHOLE THING. He even publilshed a supporting series of 9 stand-alone booklets that cover the exact testing requirements for each belt level up to 4th-degree black, and the 9th of these books covers promotion beyond that point. And those booklets are equally as detailed in their presentation format as this one. If you have this large beefy tome of knowledge and those 9 ranking booklets together, you have Marc Tedeschi's entire Hapkido school in book form to self-train from for those who have no choice but to do it that way. Note however that certain assertions about trying to do so are HALF-correct; You can't easily learn martial arts just from READING a book, no matter how detailed or well-structured in its material. It's putting the book's instructions into physical practice in trial-and-error sessions that can reveal the rest of the little nuances for you. You can even alieviate many of the issue of sparring-enabled discovery of a lot of those nuances by learning to incorporate the Mook Jong wooden Kung Fo dummy into your practice of whatever fighting techniques are instructed in the book in front of you... most of, anyway. But the point is that the better qualilty the book, the more details you have to work from when trying to glean martial skill from that book when you have no choice but to try and do it entirely alone like I do. Secondly, there is also no such thing as learning martial arts from just ONE book on the subject. Even this huge book, while its level of instructional detail comes very close, stops just short of being enough to know EVERY little thing you need to know to attempt to gain real martial skill in the art or style. BUT: When you start to include other books that cover the missing categories of knowledge into the total combined martial arts instructional library you're self-training from, you start getting closer to forming the more complete picture after all. In my case, not only do I own this book and all 9 of the supporting belt-ranking booklets - I also own Marc Tedeschi's suppliment volume "Essential Anatomy." But I didn't stop there; See, while this book and 'Essential Anatomy' perfectly map out WHERE every pressure point is on all the meridian lines, they do not go into extensive hard-medical-science details about the exact effects of striking each of those points. Michale Patrick's book "Masters Series: Martial Science & Pressure Points" is however a 600+ page book that is exclusively a dictionarized volume solely on that subject. It lists each pressure point on the human body, shows exactly where it is and how to strike it in the form a photo showing the author doing so with a training partner, and gives a scienticfic description of the exact medical effects of that striking point. Get that book to suppliment the big Hapkido book my Marc Tedeschi, and now you approach the cusp of having the completely fleshed out Hapkido training corriculum. But for me it STILL does not stop there; There are even books on exact step-by-step processes for learning proper form and technical correctness on ones own, when it comes too such minutia as postute or the exact positioning of the fist and shoulder during a punch, ect. For example, I also own and train from a book titled "Dynamic Movement," which is part of the Karate Science series. In it, there are exact descriptions of not only how to position/angle your fists/shoulders/ankles/feet/knees and so on, but how to know on your own if you're getting it right by sensing how your wrists/ankles/knees/sense of balance/etc are supposed to feel to you when you are doing it right versus doing it wrong. Then there's the companion book to that one, titled "Fight like a Physicist." This one goes into detail on the hard Newtonian sciences of leverage, rotational forces, weight and balance, momention forces and how to use them in your movements toward what exact fighting purposes, etc. - It even goes into detail on exactly how breaking techniques for boards and bricks actually works and how it doesn't. I also have another book called "Iron Power Palm: 90 days to skull smashing power." This book is exclusively dedicated to exact step-by-step instructions for hard-science hand and body toughening methods used in breaking skills, and the raw science of why those methods work. There is even a section containing formulas for making your own Dit-Daw-Jow linaments using American-sourced equivalent ingredients to the original Chinese ones if you can't easily get supplies of those. Next I have my stack-o physical fitness manuals and books, one of which is titled "Ultimate Flexibility for Martial Arts," and another stretching-related one titled "Secrets of the Pelvis for martial arts." Having those two books together has helped me master proper martial arts stretching to effectively MAKE those high kicks become combat-practical. I've heard many accomplished masters of this art or that one all agree that the tool is only as useful as he who knows how/when to weild it, and I agree with that. As long as your fight strategy A-game is on point as far as fighting your fight (not your opponent's) to set him up just right, you can lead him into your perfect opportunity to flying roundhouse kick him over backwards at full power in a real fight. It's the preceding setup techniques and strategies that get you there, not just being physically faster or more frantic in your sheer will to try and haphazardly force such a kick into completion through his defense. And so I submit to you that having the right COMBINATION of different martial arts books, each one covering a whole category of martial knowledge and minutia that the other books in your training library don't cover... this is what makes all your training books work together to more effectively offer you the complete picture. After that it's your own hard work and eanest trial-and-error efforts in which you must get serious about those efforts, that will do the rest in gaining you the levels of skill you hope to achieve or at least begin to approach... if your location and situation leave you with absolutely no choice but to do it all on your own without an available dojang or instructor in or near your area. But as far as starting at the core knowledge of the particular martial art you're interested in learning, if it's Hapkido at its finest, then I can speak first hand that Marc Tedeschi's "Hapkido: History, Philosopy, Technique" is the finest example of the best kind of starting point in book form. If you want to learn real Hapkido but don't have access to a living instructor, then buy this book. But do more than that, like I did: Do your research to learn what other additional categories of information and skills are needed to master a martial art, find out what books by what authors will contain sufficiently detailed instructional material in those categories and buy them, REAR READ READ and internalize, and then put it all into physical experimentive practice as you go, and correct what needs correcting based on what the whole collective knowledge base in all those books says, and good luck to you. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Possibly the most comprehensive source I have ever possessed. *by L***Y on September 26, 2025* This is more then simply a book, this is a lifelong wealth of historical information, traditions, knowledge, philosophy, and technique. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Reference *by D***Y on August 15, 2025* Outstanding reference for Hapkido/Combat Hapkido practitioner. 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