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Stretching Stretching is vital to achieving and maintaining flexibility. This book contains stretching routines specific to a variety of people, including sports enthusiasts, travelers, children, gardeners, and people in wheelchairs. |
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Bare Essentials Guide For
Martial Arts Injury, Care, and Prevention Written in easy to understand language, the guide addresses important self-care issues for the martial arts athlete including stretching, conditioning, nutrition, taping techniques, and dealing with minor and serious injuries. |
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Weight Training for Martial
Artists A complete guide to weight training for martial artists of all styles. Covers weight machines, free weights, isometrics, traditional martial arts strength training and maintaining your flexibility while adding speed and power. |
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Dynamic Stretching and Kicking Bill "Superfoot" Wallace, full-contact Karate's most famous kicker, wrote this book as an introduction on his particular kicking method which revolves around three kicks (roundhouse, side, and hook kicks). Much of the book is devoted to warming up, stretching, and footwork exercises. |
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The Law and Martial Arts Carl Brown (attorney, author and black belt judo instructor) describes the legal policies that can protect or indict an individual who uses martial arts techniques in self-defense. Topics include assault and battery, the law and self-defense, martial arts weapons, state laws and a table of cases. |
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Magic of Conflict This set of simple techniques, including meditation, breathing exercises, openness, and play--Aiki--leads gently to a reordered state of mind. From overcoming apathy to understanding how conflict doesn't have to mean contest, Aiki turns mind-body integration principles into powerful tools. |
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Parents' Guide to Martial Arts The ultimate who, what, where and why reference book for parents in search of a martial arts school and a positive experience for their children. The authors answer dozens of questions about choosing a martial arts school and understanding what's going on once lessons begin including evaluating an instructor's credentials, understanding contracts and membership agreements, spotting unsafe facilities/exercises, preventing injuries, purchasing the right safety gear, and helping your child get the most from his or her martial arts lessons. |
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Moving Toward Stillness A collection of anecdotes based upon Dave Lowry's magazine articles from the past decade, written from an almost Japanese perspective. Topics explored include entering the martial arts way, making the pursuit of traditional Asian martial arts a part of modern western life, the paradoxes and conflicts such a path inevitably generates, how to adapt to the mindset necessary for true mastery of a foreign art, and much more. |
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Bible of Karate Bubishi Treasured for centuries by karate's top masters, studied, applied, and plagiarized, The Bubishi is a classic Chinese work on philosophy, strategy, medicine, and technique as they relate to the martial arts. Referred to as 'the bible of karate' by the famous master Miyagi Chojun, for hundreds of years The Bubishi was a secret text passed from master to student in China and later in Okinawa. |
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Living the Martial Way A step-by-step approach to applying the Japanese warrior's mind-set to martial training and daily life. It combines a knowledge of fighting with an exploration of the culture of the warrior. Morgan carefully guides the reader from The Way of Training, through The Way of Honor, to The Way of Living, constantly finding applications both inside and outside the martial arts. |
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Secret Power Within Norris peppers his discourse with illustrative anecdotes, such as the story of the wounded marine who--despite the loss of both legs--studied martial arts under a visionary master and learned to use his wheelchair as a weapon. Norris also champions Zen as a path to self-awareness whereby followers learn how to reward, motivate, and respect themselves. |
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Secret of Inner Strength, My
Story Karate champion and movie star Norris discusses his secrets of inner strength with the aid of biographer Hyams. Norris's formula consists primarily of positive thinking and visualizing in advance what will take place next, with added bits of advice on more specific subjects like dealing with failure and advancing beyond conceived limitations. |
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Strike like Lightning Martial artists of all styles can learn how to learn from nature to increase the benefits of their training. Discover how watching nature and animals can enhance your mental and physical development. |
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Unfettered Mind So succinct are the author's insights that these writings have outlasted the dissolution of the samurai class to come down to the present and be read for guidance and inspiration by the captains of business and industry, as well as those devoted to the practice of the martial arts in their modern form. |
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Karate: the art of empty self As a martial art, karate is a way to end conflict by nonviolent means. In addition to the physical confidence it instills in its practitioners, karate empowers them to curtail conflict at its source: the human mind. These meditations are designed to raise the reader's awareness of how aggression and tension can hold up a mirror to reflect the roots of fear. |
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Maximize Your Martial Arts
Training: the Martial Arts Training Diary Divided into six scientifically designed sections, this training diary gives you an organized way to record your goals, techniques, progress, reflections. Also includes detailed advice on how to use your journal for maximum benefit. |
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Breaking Unlimited, Complete
Version Systematic, step-by-step instructions on how to break wood, glass, bricks, ice, cinder blocks, etc. in many different ways and applications into self-defense and fighting. |
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Karate-Do Nyumon Karate-do Nyumon is the result of Master Funakoshi's wish to clarify Karate thought and practice for those who know nothing about it. It comprises unpublished writings from the years before his death in 1957, together with simplified kata-sequences of movements-synthesized by Funakoshi from the traditional Okinawa Karate-do kata, for beginners. |
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Bruce Lee's Fighting Method With Bruce Lee's Fighting Method: Self-Defense Techniques, the legendary fighter demonstrates the most effective methods for retaliating against surprise attacks, grabs, chokes, multiple attackers and armed assailants. Because Lee believed that the best defense is the most simple and effective, his no-nonsense counters include eye gouges, groin kicks, heads stomps and other techniques you won't be able to learn in most studios. |
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Best Karate -Heian, Tekki Detailed here in 1500 sequential photos are the five Pyang Ahn (Heian) and three Niahanchi (Tekki) forms. |
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Dynamic Karate The late Master Masatoshi Nakayama, chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association, left this book as a testament. It reveals his great experience as a karate competitor and teacher, describing and illustrating in detail all the correct movements involved in the particular block, punch, or kick you want to perfect, as well as instructions--on combining blocking techniques with decisive counterattacks. Because of the lightning speed of karate techniques, normal camera work often fails to record the action accurately. For this reason, many of the photo sequences found in Dynamic Karate were taken using a stroboscope with a flash time of 1/10,000 of a second, enabling you to follow each movement as it is actually performed. |
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Best Karate, Kumite 2 |
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Self Defense Nerve Centers and Pressure Points |
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Training and Fighting Skills Benny "The Jet" won over 50 full contact tournaments in his fighting career, undefeated. Very detailed instructions with pictures on general fighting skills, including practice and sparring. |
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Martial Arts for Women Advice on finding the right school, fitting into a male dominated atmosphere, finding the right equipment plus dozens of photos and detailed instruction on self-defense, sparring and conditioning techniques that work best for women. |
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Defend Yourself! Based on the self-defense approach currently being taught to thousands of women across the country, this book offers easily learned techniques women can use to protect themselves in a variety of dangerous situations. |
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Martial Arts Training Diary for
Kids! Designed to help children get the most out of their martial arts lessons and have fun doing it, this is a book that helps the young martial artist create a lasting record of their journey from white belt to black belt and beyond. |
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Junior Martial Arts Training, grading and competition which are appropriate for senior martial arts students may not be relevant or suitable for the younger ones. This book looks at the very specific needs, both physical and psychological, of the junior practitioner. Drawing on his experience as a sports physiologist, Tony Gummerson explains the effects of growth and training on the body, why coaches should ensure students are not overloaded and how to plan a safe program that includes body awareness and proper recovery periods. |
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Breaking the Chains of the
Ancient Warrior Inspirational stories for martial arts students presenting tests of wisdom involving attributes including honor, strength, humility, peaceful conflict resolution, and love. Each test contributes to character development. |
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Eye of the Hurricane
These tales and
full-color illustrations are aimed at young students of the
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Facing the Double-Edged Sword This book can help kids, parents, teachers, and counselors who are searching for healthy, nonviolent, humane ways for young people to deal with conflict. It gives readers a context in which to help young people understand and respond to violence. |
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Flight of the Golden Eagle These illustrated martial arts stories emphasize the practice of ancient arts with inner and outer peace, sensitivity, and alertness. |
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Maze of the Fire Dragon These classical tales will help the young martial artist understand the philosophical foundations of the martial arts and will therefore put them into their proper context. |
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Why Is Everybody Always Picking
on Me? This is a workbook for bullies and victims ages eight to fourteen. With sample dialogue and exercises, it teaches children to respect themselves and introduces them to a variety of threatening situations and how to resolve them nonviolently. |