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Master Essential Self Defense Skills and Establish Good Habits for a Lifetime- Discover how to formulate a self-defense game plan designed to keep you safe- Understand how to sharpen your awareness skills- Uncover the best ways to manage fear and adrenaline- Understand how to hit hard- Instantly apply these techniques to raise your level of personal safety- Self Defense Tips Everyone Should Know, Are you struggling to learn to find a self defense...
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With over 50 years of experience in Wing Chun Kung Fu, Sifu Francis Fong is recognized as one of the top Wing Chun instructors and martial artists in the world. A Path of Mastery contains lessons taught to Senior Instructor Jim Brault through thousands of hours of training over more than two decades. These lessons can no doubt help you to improve your martial arts ability. Perhaps more importantly, they will also improve your life. This book is your...
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Koryu Bujutsu is a collection of eight essays by the world's most experienced non-Japanese practitioners of the classical martial arts, including Hunter B. Armstrong, Meik Skoss, Diane Skoss, David A. Hall, Liam Keeley and Ellis Amdur. These individuals have spent decades in Japan training and researching with the headmasters of a number of these ancient traditions, and their essays provide a behind-the-scenes look at these most exotic and secretive...
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Los orígenes del judo se remontan al antiguo ju-jitsu. Es una técnica de combate sin armas elaborada por Jigoro Kano, que en el año 1882 fundó la escuela del Kodokan («lugar en donde se estudia la Vía»). El judo es el arte marcial más conocido del planeta, y ha abierto el camino a otras disciplinas de combate en los países occidentales. Los autores, que acumulan muchos años de experiencia en los tatamis, aportan toda la información necesaria...
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Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest surviving printed book on Italian martial arts. This seminal and eclectic Renaissance work contains clear and systematic instruction on the use of the sword and small buckler, sword and large buckler, sword and targa, sword and dagger, sword and cape, two swords, sword alone, and sword and rotella, plus a fascinating compendium on the use of pole arms....
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Este es un volumen con una nueva concepción, muy ilustrado y escrito con un lenguaje sencillo. En él encontrará fácilmente las posiciones fundamentales (naturales. defensivas. de ataque): las técnicas de desplazamiento, las formas de presa, la técnica para desequilibrar al adversario, etc., siempre con fotografías muy claras para entenderlas de verdad. Después encontramos las numerosas técnicas de proyección según la clasificación del...
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You Get a Ebook about the history of Mixed Martial Arts and MMA Figures as well as a Mixed Martial Arts Figures Price Guide combined in one Ebook.
MMA or Mixed Martial Arts is the hybrid contact sport that combines the best set of techniques from Muay Thai, karate, jujitsu, judo, wrestling, and boxing - just to name a few of the disciplines. Initially, MMA was considered to be a brutal blood sport because of its critics, but it slowly transitioned...
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The third installment in the bestselling series-now featuring live-action video content.
"The first volume in the 100 Deadly Skills series delivered clandestine hacks to help you escape and evade threats at home and abroad. The second book, Survival Edition, provided a blueprint for surviving fatal disasters. Now, with the Combat Edition, I've created the most comprehensive on-the-ground combat manual ever assembled-helping good people defeat evil,...
89) Tai Chi
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Tai Chi Chuan began as a martial art in China over 1000 years ago and is now widely recognized for its great health benefits. This Collins Gem provides a simple, clear and highly illustrated introduction.
This book provides an introduction to the history, philosophy and practice of this fascinating, multi-faceted art. From its early origins in the holy Taoist Mountains of China it has now become a highly practical tool for life in the 21st century....
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When Boxing Mattered is a fact-based history of boxing covering the classic era from 1880 to 1980. Beginning with John L. Sullivan and the bare-knuckle beginnings of the modern sport, the author takes the reader through all the greats, and some of the not-so-greats, who make up the fascinating history of professional boxing. The book utilizes a decade-by-decade approach, focusing on the original eight weight divisions. All-timers Jack Johnson, Stanley...
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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 culture and lifestyle, and does so in such a humble, engaging, and accessible way. "Budo Bum Anthology" is a book that answers not so much "how" or "what" as it does "why?" Why call budo teachers "sensei"? Why do we bow? Why kata?...
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This book has obviously been written for those who officiate, umpire, referee and judge sporting events. It has also been purposely designed for leaders in business, other professions and avocations to encourage thinking outside the box while establishing, reviewing or modifying their philosophy of leadership. If you look at this book only as through the eyes of a sports official, the covers may be too far apartso read between the lines! Hopefully...
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The perfect training supplement for martial artists, The Martial Artist's Book of Yoga shows how the ancient practice of yoga was the genesis of all martial arts. It clearly illustrates how specific yoga poses can directly improve one's martial arts abilities, with asanas that the reader can easily incorporate into a balanced workout.Designed for those practicing any martial art including judo, karate, kung fu, tae kwon do, jujitsu, and hapkido, the...
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This book is a no nonsense, practical and effective approached to self defense. It doesn't teach you a 'quick fix' self defense against a willing partner, but gives you the basics behind the techniques. It shows which part of your body can be used as a weapon, their ranges, which one is effective to which target, the correct structure to deliver them and a lot more. It will teach you Wing Chun principles, footwork, hand techniques, using both hands...
96) Sword & Spirit
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Take a look at the martial arts section in your local library or bookstore and you'll find a huge selection of titles, ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. What you won't find is much in the way of accurate information on the authentic fighting traditions of the Japanese samurai. Sword & Spirit, the second volume in the Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan series, fills that gap. The eight essays in this volume include a translation of advice...
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Karate is a growing phenomenon in the United States and internationally, and adults as well as children of all ages have discovered this Japanese martial art. In Karate for Kids, author Vincent A. Cruz presents a discussion of the essential physical and philosophical elements of traditional karate and provides clear and purposeful instruction for the young practitioner.
Cruz, an experienced teacher of karate, offers an introduction to traditional...
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T'AI-CHI CHUAN is a Chinese martial art based on consciously aligning with the unforced balance of Yin and Yang energies that underlies all things. Whether or not you are interested in martial arts, T'ai-Chi principles of balance can be applied to any life activity to increase performance, efficiency, health and enjoyment. T'AI-CHI FOR GENIUSES is a practice companion, not an instructional training manual. Rather than presuming that the reader is...
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Russia is rich in martial traditions deriving from a highly diverse population. Sambo-developed by the Soviet Red Army-became the most recognize martial art associated with Russia mainly because of its presence in international competitions. Another style to become recognized for its great practicality and encompassing training regimen is Systema. Originally created for Russian Special Operations Units, Systema's teaching gradually spread world-wide...
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Los compromisos diarios de las mujeres en la actualidad hacen que frecuentemente se vean solas ante situaciones de peligro potencial, y tambien son numerosas las ocasiones en las que una mujer puede ser molestada o agredida: al regresar tarde a casa, caminando por una calle desierta, en un aparcamiento subterraneo, en la parada del autobus, al sacar dinero en un cajero. Esta guia ilustrada puede resultar muy util cuando no se dispone de tiempo para...