Ymaa Publication Center: 67 books
Redemption
A Street Fighter's Path to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
USA Best Books Award FINALIST - 2016
"A British “karateka” offers a bone-crushing, lip-splitting, and often elegant memoir of a tough guy searching for higher meaning through the study of martial arts."
"In this memoir describing how karate turned his life around, Clarke...
Taekwondo
A Path to Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
ForeWord's Book of the Year Award FINALIST - 2010
USA Best Book Award FINALIST - 2010
By following Taekwondo’s path and developing its indomitable spirit, you—the Taekwondo traveler—will see the ‘Do’ or the Way. Learn how to cultivate a natural harmony and rhythm to life,...
Fighter's Fact Book 2
Street Fighting Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
No-nonsense training for street safety and survival
You will fight how you train. That’s why Fighter’s Fact Book 2 presents a critical look at training and real-world applications. When you’ve mastered the skills taught in this book, you will truly be ready to defend yourself in some...
Karate Science
Dynamic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Dynamics, motion, and sensation are karate’s connective tissue—and they are the heart of this book.
As a lifelong student of martial arts, J. D. Swanson, PhD, had searched through piles of books on form and function. Stand here, they said. Step there. But where movement was concerned, not...
Tai Chi In 10 Weeks
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
USA Best Book Award FINALIST - 2017
This book is designed to guide beginning students through the fundamentals of tai chi in ten weeks. Dr. Aihan Kuhn teaches readers the twenty-four-step Yang-style form. She shares insight on warming up, healing, and avoiding injury. But tai chi is more than...
Pain-Free Joints
Simple Qigong Movements for Arthritis Healing and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
If pain-free joints are the goal, qigong movements can help.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, over fifty million Americans struggle with doctor-diagnosed arthritis. Obesity and inactivity are proven aggravating factors, limiting mobility and making everyday activities difficult and painful....
Dukkha
The Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the course of a single week, everything Sam Reeves believed in, everything he knew, everyone he trusted, all would be put on the line. For a family he never knew he had.
Detective Sam Reeves, a 34-year-old martial arts instructor, has a solid fifteen-year record as a good police officer...
A Sudden Dawn
A Martial Arts Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Gold Winner - 2011 IP's Living Now Awards
Gold Winner - 2011 eLit Awards
Winner - 2011 USA Best Book Award
This epic historical fiction novel opens with a young man named Sardili born of the warrior caste in 507 A.D. Sardili realizes that he would rather seek enlightenment than...
Tai Chi for Depression
A 10-Week Program to Empower Yourself and Beat Depression
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
USA Best Book Award FINALIST - 2017
This book is designed to help readers understand depression and make positive changes to overcome it. Dr. Aihan Kuhn teaches a unique tai chi form that combines elements of Chen and Yang styles as well as qigong and meditation. The form is easy to learn,...
by John Donohue
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In every case, the modus operandi is the same, and the only clue available is a cryptic message scrawled on the wall bearing the signature "Ronin" - the Japanese name for a masterless samurai.
Connor Burke, a part-time college teacher with a passion for the martial arts, is called...
Kage
The Shadow A Connor Burke Martial Arts Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Bronze Winner - 2012 eLit Awards
Finalist - 2012 USA Best Books Award
In the seemingly trackless waste of the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, a coyote cross border smuggler is found dead, another victim of the escalating violence on the southwest border.
At the same time, a mysterious...
The Raven's Warrior
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
If Death takes a man it is called fate, when Death leaves a man it is called destiny.
Wounded in battle (900 A. D.), a near dead Celtic warrior is taken by Viken raiders and sold into a Baghdad slave market. He is dragged further East, through the desert, into the ‘Middle Kingdom’ where he is...
The Art and Science of Staff Fighting
A Complete Instructional Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2016
ForeWord Reviews Indie Award FINALIST - 2016
USA Best Book Award FINALIST - 2016
This book stands apart from other staff training manuals. While most titles focus on forms and twirling, The Art and Science of Staff Fighting emphasizes the dynamics of combat. The author draws on thirty...
Solo Training
The Martial Artist's Home Training Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Take your martial arts workout to the next level
Loren W. Christensen shows you over 300 ways you can add variety to your daily martial arts training routine. Whether you’re a student looking for fun new solo drills to spice up your home training or an instructor in search of new ways to...