Kalaripayat

This is very excellent book on Kalaripayat

Its like elementary kids instruction to some outlines of yogic philosophy, no depth

WORST.

Nice book and give you very good knowledge about kalaripayattu, history, principles, types of weapons and fight all you have in this book

Worse book ever ,its cover only good thing ,don't judge book by its cover .great example suits for this book

We can get the information contained in this book from the internet these days.Not a detailed book about techniquesBest book is by chiraikkal sreedharan nair.

Highly priced

It is just primery information.iam not satisfaction with this book.

Very Interesting read on the Ancient Art or Kalaripayat, A Nice piece for any Martial arts history Collection

Good book

Little info, very poor about this martial art. It is only about the history of Kalaripayat. I am quite deceptionated.

This book, "Kalaripayat" concerns Kalaripayat in all of its aspects -- which are all the aspects of a full "Health-Defense Art". Actually "Kalaripayat" presents an overview of the whole "Kalaripayat World" -- the common Tradition of the Kalaripayat Arts as well as their more localized variants -- such as the Northern and Southern spectrum as explained in summary on pages 46 and 47 -- and elsewhere as well. Presented is a FULL background to the Kalaripayat Arts -- ancient history, legend, Diety aspects, metaphysics, meditation and breathing, bioenergy topics and practices, healing methods based on those, massage -- and other health methods. Actual living Kalaripayat lineages have been consulted by the author, Patrick Denand, who uses great BIG full-color photos [such as page 81 and so on], good black-and-white photos and good drawings to illustrate his excellent prose [developed as a CBS war correspondent]. Kalaripayat self-defense is sampled via a FEW well-chosen methods to demonstrate the FULL variety of postures, shifts, kicks, trips, blows and grappling -- one could expect of an Ancestor of Asian Defense Arts -- therefore of modern self-defense Arts -- such as Kenpo Arts like mine. This surely includes Tibetan Lion's Roar Arts -- the Kalaripayat Long and Fold Arm methods are mirrored in such Tibetan Arts. The Northern Long Arm and Southern Fold Arm Arts of Kalaripayat seem mirrored as well in Northern and Southern "Kung-Fu". The whole chapter 7 "The Influence of India on Asia and of Kalaripayat on the Martial Arts" presents a great summary of such deep ancient mirror-influences -- reflected and recreated into present Living Arts +++

Dieses Buch ist das beste (mir bekannte) Werk zu diesem Thema. Deswegen hat es vier Sterne verdient. Es hat Tiefgang, besitzt eine breite Informationsfülle und ist lesbar geschrieben. Einen Stern muss ich dem Buch vorbehalten, da ich gewisse Details dennoch vermisse. Aber kann es überhaupt ein vollständiges Werk zu diesem Thema geben?