Martial Arts category: 1527 books
Martial Virtues
Lessons in Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion from the World's Greatest Warriors
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
This martial arts books explores the role of martial philosophy and history in personal character development.
Martial Virtues explores the role of martial arts in character development. It focuses on the spiritual aspects of martial arts training, attempting to answer the question of what...
Indo-Malay Martial Traditions
Aesthetics, Mysticism, & Combatives, Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Many Indo-Malay martial arts are kept private, taught in secluded areas away from the public. These are arts of the older tradition, developed when combative knowledge was valued for its use in protecting the sanctity of life. This two-volume anthology brings together a great...
Prepare for Combat
Strength Training for the Martial Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Traditionally, the martial arts community believed that engaging in weight training was detrimental to the performance of the art, that it would hinder one's flexibility, speed, and agility. To be effective fighters, martial artists had to be quick and light on their feet like Bruce Lee and other...
by IntroBooks
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
The martial art of boxing is being practiced from the era of ancient Thira, maybe even before that. There are several purposes of practicing martial arts. The main goal is practicing combat since martial arts are a combination of codified systems and traditions of various combat techniques. The main...
Fighting
Kabadaro, Martial Arts from the Alley
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Author Travis Paul, originally born in Linden, Guyana, takes us into the sometimes dangerous world of street fighting. This is a book of martial arts real life application. The author has developed his own martial arts after 28 years of not being able to afford martial arts school but having to survive...
Warrior Odyssey
The Travels of a Martial Artist Through Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
“Suddenly I found myself in one of those situations only I can find myself in … I knew that I could fight my way out of most rooms, but here I would be fighting my way out of a room full of kung fu monks. If you had made a quick call to Atlantic City, bookmakers would have told you that they...
by Loren Landow
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Strike and kick with explosive power. Take down and grapple with sustained brute strength. Counter and evade with unmatched speed and agility. Be the best. Be your best with Ultimate Conditioning for Martial Arts, the complete guide for physical and mental dominance.
Whether you practice MMA,...
Okinawan Martial Traditions Vol. 1.1
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
NOTE: Volume 1 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 1.1 and 1.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and...
Okinawan Martial Traditions Vol. 2.1
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
NOTE: Volume 2 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and...
by Tommy Gong
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
In the new book Bruce Lee: The Evolution of a Martial Artist, author Tommy Gong traces Lee's path as he developed his martial art of jeet kune do and his philosophy of self-actualization. That path led Lee from Hong Kong to Seattle and then to Oakland and Los Angeles and back to Hong Kong as he evolved...
Okinawan Martial Traditions, Vol. 2.2
Te, Tode, Karate, Karatedo, Kobudo
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
NOTE: Volume 2 of the print edition was dividend into Vols. 2.1 and 2.2 to make two e-book editions.
What would you like to obtain from your research and practice of an Okinawan martial art? For an academic, it would be to obtain historical and cultural facts and details. For a practitioner,...
In the Wake of Kumite and Beyond
How to Develop Your Own Martial Arts Potential Through Sparring
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Explore the electrifying world of kumite, or sparring in martial arts, and take your martial arts work to a whole new level. In this guide, author Stephen Dialessi builds on more than thirteen years of Tae Kwon Do training and his study of Aikido and other martial arts to present an innovative, interdisciplinary...
by Bryan Keyleader
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The best self-defense technique you will ever learn in your life consists in avoiding danger, but before that you will need to recognize it and be ahead of the events when they occur.
The author of this book has coached many self-defense instructors, security guards, and police officers, as well as...
by Michael DeMarco, Kirstin Pauka, Chris Parker
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Many Indo-Malay martial arts are kept private, taught in secluded areas away from the public. These are arts of the older tradition, developed when combative knowledge was valued for its use in protecting the sanctity of life. This two-volume anthology brings together a great...