Tai Chi offers you the prospects of better health and vitality, peace of mind, and increased stores of personal energy. To realize this potential you must delve into the world of Tai Chi minutia, which is exactly where the essence of Tai Chi lays in wait for those ascribing to its regular and correct practice. This book looks deeply into Tai Chi's technical intricacies and nuances, offering guidance and practice tips, replete with step-by-step directions, on how to bring your Tai Chi to a higher level of correct execution. Seasoned Tai Chi teacher and author John Loupos offers wise and helpful guidance in a personable tone to help you recognize connections, feel connections, and keep connections. Tai Chi Connections...will help you to narrow the gap between where your practice is now and where you'd like it to go. Some of the subjects included: *Opportunities within slowness*Attention/Intention as dynamic ingredients*Tai Chi as a path to congruence*Tapping into earth force*Putting the brakes on momentum*Unspoken nuances of Tai Chi stepping*Training tips to optimize your Tai Chi experience*Moral / ethical mandates of being a teacher

In JKD Pure & Simple author Jason Korol helps clear away the confusion surrounding Bruce Lee's fighting method. Far from being complex and confusing, JKD is really Lee's unique combination of Wing Chun Kung Fu and the all but forgotten style of old-school boxing.

This is a textbook for self-defense with incredible detail regarding stances and other specifics. It includes a multitude of practical applications. Including objective tests of the integrity of your stances and descriptions of how to perform basic strikes. It also includes specifics on how to practice, strengthening, flexibility, body alignment and pain relief, and blocking drills. Lots of pictures make this a go to for beginners as well as a guide for continuous improvement for veterans of Kung Fu.

Master Perez has competed in many major martial arts tournaments since the 70s he was a three-time member of the U.S. Wushu team. His highlight was competing against Zhao Changjun and Yang Siwen. He has even sponsored exchanges with Chinese teams, athletes and Masters. His skills have given him opportunities to work in the movie industry as an actor, stuntman and fight choreographer. He has worked with legendary director Yuen Wo Ping and actors Donnie Yen and Jet Li. He has also worked in the German television industry in a series titled "Der Puma." In the entertainment industry he has portrayed a boxer, a police officer, a gymnast, and a break dancer, the red Power Ranger and a gangster. On stage he has worked with opera, ballet, symphony, drama and dance companies. He was a model for the Xbox game "Too Human." From magazines to stage productions to television, motion pictures to video gaming to security, Master Perez has had the opportunity to use his skills in a wide variety of venues. Master Perez continues to learn, teach and promote Wushu to this day through performances, seminars, articles for magazines, books, television appearances and a video training series. His goal is to make Wushu as accepted and as popular here in the U.S. and the Western world as Karate and Tae Kwon Do.

Walter Foxx, Happening Beach, California's most feared bar brawler, works at Sea Lion Beach Liquor at night, attends Wong Beach State College in the day, and dishes out street justice in his spare time to the scumbags, posers, wannabes, and bullies of the world who violate his personal code of honor. Driving a 1987 Chevy Sprint with his faithful pit bull Adolf riding shotgun, Walter and his twisted crew of Poppa Chulo, Rolando, Big Cal, and Gonzo hold court at the Dead Grunion bar where they take on all comers. When Walter sees a man beating his girlfriend one night and steps in to assist her, he gets punched for his trouble and makes the perp pay. The man has friends in high places, though, and Walter soon finds himself facing felony assault charges that his 600 pound bench-press-fueled fighting skills alone can't beat. As he battles liars on the stand and his own hapless attorney John Wittless in a desperate bid to clear his name and avoid prison, Walter struggles to understand what his life means and what his future holds. Author David "Tank" Abbott, the "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" and the world's most famous brawler, had over 200 street fights before bursting onto the MMA scene in 1995 when he shocked the world by defeating larger opponents with crushing ferocity inside the cage to become a household name. He later went on to star in the most watched "Friends" episode of all time before becoming a fixture at Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling where he quickly became one of its most recognizable and popular personalities. He later returned to the cage with his trademark intensity, leaving an indelible and enduring legacy. This seminal three-novel work chronicles the adventures of fictional character Walter Foxx, who is at the crossroads of his life and who navigates the harsh worlds of bar brawling and street fighting with the goal of living his dream and following his passion and someday becoming a no-holds-barred fighter. Written from the ultimate insider's perspective, Tank Abbott takes readers from the parking lot to the cage with a realism and honesty about mixed martial arts never before told or exposed until now

Warriors of myth and legend, ninja are a fascinating, mysterious presence in our world. Through generations of disinformation and, more recently, their place in popular culture, the origins, tools, and methodology of the ninja have been shrouded in secrecy to alternately terrify or entertain the populace. The weapons of Ninjutsu are unusual and unorthodox. Though they have been popularized by the public's expanding interest in the Ninja arts, they remain poorly understood. Glamorization of this method of defense has led to a publicly perceived disassociation from its origins as a "peasant art." Ninja Tools and Weapons provides a reframing of the skills of Ninjutsu closer to the discipline's lower-class roots. Dr. Michel Farivar clarifies the origins of the weapons as well as supplies indepth insight into the mindset that developed them. As Ninjutsu moves into the modern age, this clarification remains relevant to those interested in the history of the ninja as well as the anatomy and evolution of conflict.

Cold Steel (originally published by Leatherneck magazine), was the Marine bible of unarmed combat. Emphasizing the practice aspect of bayonet, knife and stick fighting, this rare volume also provides short courses in unarmed combat and knife throwing. For academic study only