Boxing category: 529 books
The Immortals
The Story of Leicester City's Premier League Season 2015-16
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Written by the legendary soccer writer Harry Harris the fairy tale account of how the team rose from the very bottom of the league in the previous season to triumph against all odds.
Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere
An Illustrated Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: An Illustrated Introduction provides a complete foundation in the practice of one of the most distinctive and effective Japanese martial arts.
Aikido was created in Japan in the 1920's by Morihei Ueshiba, also known as Osensei. To possess the skills, techniques...
Police Kung Fu
The Personal Combat Handbook of the Taiwan National Police
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Master the effective, practical style of Kung Fu practiced by the Taiwanese police with this illustrated martial arts guide.
Police Kung Fu: The Personal Combat Handbook of the Taiwan National Police is a comprehensive approach for the realistic use of traditional kung fu by law enforcement...
The Secrets of Kalis Ilustrisimo
The Filipino Fighting Art Explained
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Master the art of filipino kalis with this illustrated martial arts guide.
The Filipino martial art of ilustrisimo hails from Cebu, Philippines, where martial arts are still considered a matter of life-and-death survival—rather than sport or exercise.
Named after Antonio "Tatang"...
Shoto-Kan Karate
The Ultimate in Self-Defense
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
This martial arts guide is an introduction to Shoto-Kan Karate, a unique Japanese style of karate.
Shoto-Kan Karate is the popular ancient art of 'empty-hand' self-defense. This karate book explains and illustrates two of the major kata, or forms, in which all karate techniques are contained.
The...
Don't Be An Idiot When You Spar 2: A Guide To Muay Thai Fighter Types
Don't Be An Idiot When You Spar, #2
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Continuing the Don't Be An Idiot When You Spar series, Don't Be An Idiot When You Spar 2: A Guide To Muay Thai Fighter Types is about Muay Thai fighter types and the strategies one can implement when one knows the type of fighter one is and the type of fighter one is fighting.
About the Don't...
by George Thomas Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Let’s invite many of the greatest boxers, and their contemporaries, to tell their own stories, some true, others tales based on history. Peter Jackson barges into John L. Sullivan’s hotel room to demand a fight. Jim Jeffries regales listeners about his barroom confrontation with Jack Johnson....
Pressure-Point Fighting
A Guide to the Secret Heart of Asian Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Supplement your martial arts skills with this expert guide to pressure point fighting.
Western students of Asian martial arts have long been haunted by the aching suspicion that something is missing from the arts they love and practice wholeheartedly—something intangible, but something so...
Zen Kobudo
Mysteries of Okinawan Weaponry and Te
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Kobudo, the famous armed Okinawan fighting art that utilizes common farming implements in combat, and Te, the ancient Okinawan art of armed and unarmed combat, are two of the world's most widely practiced yet least-understood martial arts.
This book studies the individual Kobudo and Te systems...
Complete Aikido
Aikido Kyohan: The Definitive Guide to the Way of Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1997
Master the techniques of aikido with this illustrated martial arts guide.
Complete Aikido is the authoritative text on this enlightening martial art and self-defense system. This definitive aikido guide is packed with history and philosophy and offers precise descriptions with over 400 photographs...
by Russ Hodges, Al Hirschberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
First published in 1963, the year Russ Hodges started his fifteenth season as the voice of the Giants, MY GIANTS is the story of the man who has lived and died with the team through years that have been triumphant, sometimes disappointing, but never, never dull.
“I don’t believe it—I...
by Shoshin Nagamine
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The Essence of Okinawan Karate-Do presents the teachings of legendary martial arts master Shoshin Nagamine, founder of the Matsubayashi school of Shorin-ryu karate-do.
Used for generations as a practical and pictorial guide, it contains over 1,000 photographs to document eighteen classic karate...
Japan's Ultimate Martial Art
An Insider Looks at the Japanese Martial Arts and Surviving in the Land of Bushido and Zen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
With extensive, step-by-step photographs and instructions, this jiu-jitsu guide is an effective tool for mastering this ancient martial art.
The original Japanese martial art developed by the elite samurai class during Japan's feudal era, Jiu-jitsu is the forerunner of Judo and the precursor...
by Masayuki Kukan Hisataka
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
In Essential Shorinjiryu Karatedo, Masayuki Kukan Hisataka, ninth Dan Black Belt Karate master, introduces the highly innovative and effective Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karatedo system.
An integral system of Okinawan karate practiced for centuries, Shorinjiryu Kenkokan Karatedo is an evolving scientific...