Martial Arts Self Defence category: 1396 books
In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition
Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Green Berets
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
The war in Iraq has heightened interest in the military mindset and raised questions about whether it’s possible to be a mindful, moral fighter at a time when impersonal, technology based warfare reigns. In Search of the Warrior Spirit confronts this thorny issue with Richard Strozzi-Heckler’s...
by HowExpert
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
This “How To Fight Muay Thai” guide will give you all the history, traditions, customs, and basic techniques you need to know to begin Muay Thai.
If you’ve always wanted to start Muay Thai, but weren’t sure what the techniques are and how to perform them, “How To Fight Muay Thai” will...
Classical Strategies for a Modern World: the Essence of the Art of War and the Thirty-Six Stratagems
Classical Strategies for a Modern World: the Essence of the Art of War and the Thirty-Six Stratagems
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
This bold reimagining of Sun-tzu's masterwork of strategic planning and conflict analysis has taken the disjointed, esoteric aphorisms of the original and reworked them into a lively and easy-to-read English prose.
Classical Strategies for a Modern World takes a unique approach by discussing...
Pi Gu Chi Kung
Inner Alchemy Energy Fasting
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A step-by-step guide to the Taoist fasting practice of Pi Gu
• Explains how you do not stop eating with this fasting practice and details the simple pi gu diet
• Illustrates the chewing and chi kung practices to accompany pi gu, for natural chi energy production
• Reveals...
by Othmar Vigl
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Practical Tai Chi Chuan: Short Form & Advanced Short Form - Trilingual edition (English, German and Italian), Kurze Handform & Kurze Handform für Fortgeschrittene - Dreisprachige Ausgabe (Englisch, Deutsch und Italienisch), Forme breve & Forma breve per progrediti - Edizione trilingua (inglese, tedesco ed italiano)
The 47 Ronin
A Graphic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Here is the first historically accurate graphic-novel version of a legendary event in Japanese history. In the eighteenth century, forty-seven samurai avenged the death of their master in a plot involving over two years of secrecy. After succeeding in their mission, the masterless samurai all committed...
T'ai Chi for Seniors
How to Gain Flexibility, Strength, and Inner Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This book gives you all the information you need to undertake a safe, health-improving exercise regimen. These ancient Chinese exercises are fun and low impact and help to alleviate the pains of arthritis, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome, and many other "senior" diseases. The book presents...
Samurai and Ninja
The Real Story Behind the Japanese Warrior Myth that Shatters the Bushido Mystique
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
The myths of the noble Samurai and the sinister Ninja are filled with romantic fantasy and fallacy.
Samurai and Ninja expert Antony Cummins shatters the myths and exposes the true nature of these very real—and very lethal—medieval Japanese warriors. The Samurai and Ninja were, in fact,...
Seppuku
A History of Samurai Suicide
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
The history of seppuku -- Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri -- spans a millennium, and came to be favored by samurai as an honorable form of death. Here, for the first time in English, is a book that charts the history of seppuku from ancient times...
by Bakari Akil II, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2010
"Grappling for Newbies" tells you what you absolutely need to know before you search for and sign up at a grappling school and what you need to know afterwards. This book also lets you know things about training, instructors and academies that no one ever talks about (ever) or definitely...
by Guy Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This book is for beginners who want to practise swordsmanship, and need to know what kind of sword to buy. It covers what to look for in safe training weapons, as well as the ideal range of length, weight and other specifications for each major European sword type, including: Falchion, Arming Sword,...
Kickboxing: Blocks, Parries, And Defensive Movement: From Initiation To Knockout
Kickboxing: From Initiation To Knockout, #5
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
A successful kickboxer must be complete in all aspects of his game, and offense cannot survive without defense, and vice versa. Many kickboxers think of defense as simply avoiding a strike or kick. But good defense has many other purposes. Your goal defensively is to make your opponent pay a price....
Sugong
The Life of a Shaolin Grandmaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Nick Hurst was working in London when he threw in his job in advertising to train for four years in Malaysia and China with a kung fu grandmaster, Sugong. This is a mix of Nick's experiences in South-East Asia and the story of Sugong's extraordinary life. Initiated into kung fu by an opium-addicted...
by Othmar Vigl
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Wudang Tai Chi Chuan, Cheng Tin Hung lineage(Ng's Cheng style): Long Form - Trilingual edition (English, German and Italian), Lange Handform - Dreisprachige Ausgabe (Englisch, Deutsch und Italienisch), Forme lunga - Edizione trilingua (inglese, tedesco ed italiano)