For a beginner this book might be of some interrest in that it shows you some basic hand and foot tecniques, and some wery basic sparring combinations (for training purposes only), but when dealing with the different types of blocks the author does not mention how the arms are being held prior to the actual blocking, somethinig that is essential for all beginners to know. As i said before, this can be fun for the beginning student or the one thinking about taking up classes, since there is not many books out there hwo represent themselfes as pure ITF Taekwon-Do books, but if you have been training ITF for six moonths or more you should rather put money aside to buy the condensed ITF Encyclopedia by General Choi Hong Hi..... For black belts and high ranking colour belts..... stay away from this book, it has nothing for you in it, ecxept nice pictures