Martial Arts category: 1527 books

Get the edge for realistic self defense. Tiger Combat takes your style beyond punching, with advanced hand and finger techniques, an updated stance, exercises and new strategic principles. Shaolin Animal Kung Fu and Bruce Lee's JKD form the TanDao Tiger System. With over forty years...

The late 19th century saw a dynamic growth of contacts between Western countries and the Far East. Along with the increase in travel came a wave of educational opportunities for Americans and Europeans to gain first-hand experience of living in countries such as China, India, and Japan. Likewise,...

Developing Jin provides a complete and progressive training regimen for increasing and refining chansi-jin, also known as silk-reeling power or coiling power--the true power of the internal martial arts. With step-by-step instructions and photographs, experienced teacher Philip Starr walks readers...

Earning a black belt can be the most rewarding experience of one’s lifetime. Getting there takes considerable planning. Whether your interests are in the classical styles of Asia or today’s Mixed Martial Arts, this book prepares you for the challenge. Whatever your age, whatever your gender, you...

Let Kilu take you on a martial arts journey from A to Z. Go along with Kilu and learn some words that your Instructor will use in your martial art classes. Kilu will help you discover how fun and exciting your martial arts training can be. This book will help you become an awesome Black Belt like Kilu. Have Fun and Let the journey begin.

CAN YOU MAKE A GREAT LIVING WITHOUT SACRIFICING YOUR ART?Many martial art school owners think it's impossible to make a decent living while teaching a quality martial arts program. I think that's a tragedy.I've launched three martial art schools and spent two decades running them. During that time, I...

Fang Shen Do Training Guide: Volume # 1 is the first of an on-going series of training guides written by Fang Shen Do founder Sijo J. Patenaude. This guide covers the basic techniques and training that the beginner and intermediate student will require to understand and apply the upcoming advanced...

This book unravels the mystery behind Chinese martial arts, or wushu, an exotic branch of traditional Chinese culture. It traces how the rough and ready brawls of Chinese cavemen matured into the polished gongfu of Shaolin and Wudang warriors. But the art of gongfu is more than just martial abilities...

Soon after birth, tiger cubs are instinctively drawn to wrestling. Eventually their play transforms into real skills of potentially lethal efficiency. Humans have done the same. In this anthology, you will find unique combative techniques found in some cultures as well as some techniques that are...

The martial arts have a two-fold agenda: To prepare you to participate in tournaments (or sports), and to prepare you to participate in real life scenarios. This split focus might be the prime element that distinguishes the martial artist from other sports participants who are preparing to run a marathon,...

"The techniques are really a vessel for carrying all the things that are budo..." Most books about martial arts (budo) focus on techniques, although some tell the history, and a few wax philosophical. It is rare indeed to discover a book that so fluently combines all this within the broader context of...

You have an owner’s manual for your car, your stereo, and even your blender, so why not your body? The Fighter’s Body is exactly that—an owner’s manual for your most complex piece of equipment.As a martial artist, you make special demands of your body. Have you ever wondered how that latest...

Hannah is strong, dominant lady who loves nothing more than to put men in their place. In some cases Hannah has decided to defeat, dominate and humiliate certain men for her own delight and in other cases she has tamed predatory men. Either way Hannah is the one who is either smiling or smirking with...

“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate” (The New York Times Book Review). The most authoritative biography—featuring dozens of rarely seen photographs—of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a...