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Focusing his expertise on the techniques and history of the bokken--the wooden training sword used by both ancient samurai and today's swordsmen--the author maintains that training with the bokken is important on two levels for the modern practitioner: to build the physical stamina, rhythms, and adroit body movements of traditional swordsmanship and to achieve something of the animating spirit of the traditional swordsman. This history of the bokken combines the author's concise, eloquent writing style with more than 100 photographs to provide the reader with the traditional and modern perspectives of this vital, historically rich practice tool.
This moment of perfect clarity that is the force behind all the
traditional Japanese arts--from archery to flower arranging--is
celebrated here in Dave Lowry's exploration of the common
principles shared by calligraphy and the martial arts.
Driving home after being kicked out of college, Tucker meets and picks up the mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop. Infatuated, and with nothing better to do, he ends up with her in St. Louis, where he gets a job as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. Even though he's a "gwai lo"--a foreign devil--his cooking skills impress the Chinese patrons of the restaurant, and his wooing skills impress Corinne when she joins him there as a waitress. But when Chinese gangsters show up demanding diamonds they believe Tucker's kind-of, sort-of, don't-call-her-a-girlfriend stole, he and his friends--which luckily include a couple of FBI agents--have to figure out just who is gunning for Corinne and how to stop them. Good thing Tucker is a Mandarin-speaking martial arts master who isn't afraid to throw the first punch. With its one-of-a-kind hero, "Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves" is perfect for anyone who loves cooking, Chinese culture, bad jokes, and young love. Diamonds are forever . . . unless Chinese mobsters decide they want them back.
The study of budo, or Japanese martial arts for self-cultivation,
is a lifelong path toward achieving perfect balance in body, mind,
and spirit. Here, Dave Lowry, who has pursued that path for over
forty years, addresses the myriad issues, vagaries, and
inconsistencies that arise for students of karate-do, judo, kendo,
aikido, iaido and other Japanese martial arts--classical and
modern--as their training develops, including:
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