The Complete Martial Arts Training Manual is a book/DVD combo designed for anyone who has an interest in the martial arts. Having a broad knowledge of the various techniques of the martial arts gives a martial artist an expanded ability to counteract a variety of attacks and overwhelm an opponent's defenses. In expanding his own martial arts knowledge, Martin shares with the reader his years of experience as a practitioner and teacher. He provides a catalog of the various martial arts being taught worldwide and their strengths and weaknesses. He then covers the basics of hand-to-hand techniques within each of those disciplines, from strikes to ground fighting. Finally, he offers information on the overall health and well being of the martial artist, including important nutritional information and stretching techniques. With an instructional DVD included, The Complete Martial Arts Training Manual is a solid foundation of martial arts for beginners and a key supplement for the veteran martial artist. Chapters include: Learning the Aspects of Fighting—an introduction The Way of the Warrior—definition of a martial art; limitations of ground fighting; a complete martial artist A Catalog of Martial Arts—Kung fu; Jujutsu (or jiujitsu); Aikido; Judo; Karate; Kickboxing; Taekwondo; Boxing; Wrestling; and more Combat Basics—fighting ranges; reflex training; basic combat techniques Hand and Elbow Strikes—jabbing punch; hook punch; uppercut; superman punch; and more Defenses—slip; duck; block; two-handed defense Foot and Knee Strikes—front kick; roundhouse; tornado kick; flying knee strike Break Falling—front break fall; back break fall; side break fall; front rolling break fall; break falling myths Takedowns—hip throw; shoulder throw; side sacrifice throw; the sprawl Locks and Choke Holds—arm lock; Americana; rear naked choke; cross choke Ground Fighting—shoulder hold; chest hold; guard; passing the guard Stretching for the Martial Artist—leg flexibility; arm flexibility Nutrition for the Martial Artist—food pyramid; pre-exercise nourishment; reducing body fat; weight gain program

The Complete Martial Arts Training Manual is a complete guide for anyone who has an interest in the martial arts. Having a broad knowledge of the various techniques of the martial arts gives a martial artist an expanded ability to counteract a variety of attacks and overwhelm an opponent's defenses. Author Ashley Martin shares with the reader his years of experience as a practitioner and teacher. He provides a catalog of the various martial arts being taught worldwide and their strengths and weaknesses. He then covers the basics of hand-to-hand techniques within each of those disciplines, from strikes to ground fighting. Finally, he offers information on the overall health and well being of the martial artist, including important nutritional information and stretching techniques. The Complete Martial Arts Training Manual is a solid foundation of martial arts for beginners and a key supplement for the veteran martial artist.

In Martial Arts Home Training: The Complete Guide to the Construction and Use of Home Training Equipment, police and SWAT trainer Mike Young shows you how to make and use ingenious home training aids-from such inexpensive, easily obtainable resources as a grocery bag, an old towel, a worn-out tire, or various construction-site scraps-to enhance your martial arts practice. Included in this martial arts book are simple instructions for a wide array of equipment for the home martial arts studio, including the shadowboxing towel; footwork, balance, and leg developer; multipurpose tire; precision blocking stick; heavy-duty striking post; grocery bag; small hanging bag; and choking dummy. Martial Arts Home Training sets out Mike Young's patented "rock & roll" methods for getting the most out of your training equipment and your training time. With the twin maxims "correct practice makes perfect" and "KISS" (keep it simple, stupid) always in mind, Young provides a thorough grounding in the essentials of developing home training equipment and the fundamentals of maintaining the diligent yet playful attitude necessary to get the most from it.

From Al Case, inventor of Matrixing Martial Arts Technology, comes the ultimate Martial Arts book: 'The Book of Five Arts.'Five martial arts, including forms, two man forms, matrixing charts, showing how the martial arts evolve from had to soft.Myamoto Musashi, centuries ago, wrote the Book of Five Rings. It has become the standard for martial arts strategy.In The Book of Five Arts Al has described five arts, enabling the reader to actually go through the martial arts and see the whole picture. This will enable them not to just read about a strategy and wonder how it works, but experience the strategy and KNOW how it works.There are matrixing charts and procedures throughout the book. These charts take out all the blank spots, enabling the reader to see how to make a martial art perfect. The reader will be able to use this data to fix his own martial art. Most important, the reader will finally see the complete procedure for making the martial arts into one art, how they fit together and why.The book is 164 pages with over 300 illustrationsArts include: Matrix KarateShaolin ButterflyButterfly Pa Kua ChangMatrix Tai Chi ChuanMonkey Boxin

Teach Yourself Jeet Kune Do! Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do is more than a bunch of martial arts techniques. It is a usable Jeet Kune Do training manual covering all aspects of Bruce Lee's fighting method. Unlike other martial arts, Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kune Do to be a practical form of self-defense. Use these techniques and strategies to beat your opponent as quickly as possible. Discover one of the most street-effective martial arts ever invented, because this is Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do. Get it now. Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do Includes * Offensive and defensive Jeet Kune Do techniques. * Learn a martial art made for street fighting. * Train in the way of the intercepting fist. * Learn Jeet Kune Do foundations and fighting strategy. * Increase personal fitness. * Become lightning fast. * Increase power in all your strikes. * Easy to follow descriptions with clear pictures. * Progressive lessons so you can learn at your own pace. * Develop the ability to instinctively escape/react to any situation. ...and much more Train in the Way of the Intercepting Fist * The fundamental lead straight punch and all the important lessons that go with it. * How to deliver punches your opponent will never see coming. * Simple explanations of the principles of economy of motion. * Details the 5 ways of attack and how to apply them in your fighting strategy. * Learn about the centerline and how to use it to your advantage. * The On-Guard Position. * Development of power and speed. * The fastest strike you can do and how to make it (and all other strikes) as fast as possible. * The most powerful strike you can do and how to make it (and all other strikes) as powerful as possible. * Jeet Kune Do footwork including the shuffle, quick movements, circling, bursting, etc. * A modified Jeet Kune Do version of Chi Sao. Offensive and Defensive Jeet Kune Do Techniques * Evasive movements. * Parries. * Counterattacks. * Trapping. * Jeet Kune Do kickboxing skills including punches, kicks, and combinations. * Interception. * Sliding leverage. * Knees and elbows. Learn Jeet Kune Do Fighting Strategy * Discover the use distance in fighting. Includes simple explanations of fighting measure, closing in, the four ranges, etc. * Understand the use of broken rhythm, cadence, and other timing concepts. These will give an otherwise slower person the upper-hand. * Learn how to create openings in your opponent's guard using feints, false attacks, and more. * Breaks down the 5 ways of attack for complete understanding and use in fighting strategy. A Perfect Accompaniment to The Tao of Jeet Kune Do The Tao of Jeet Kune Do is Bruce Lee's own book on his fighting art. It has techniques, strategy, and philosophy, but it is not a Jeet Kune Do training manual. Unlike other Jeet Kune Do books, this one fills that gap Limited Time Only... Get your copy of Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do today and you will also receive: * Free SF Nonfiction Books new releases * Exclusive discount offers * Downloadable sample chapters * Bonus content … and more! Teach yourself how to fight like the legend himself, because this training manual covers all aspects of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do. Get it now.

Weight Training for Martial Arts is the most comprehensive and up-to-date martial arts-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by martial artists worldwide. This book features year-round martial arts-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results. No other martial arts book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book is the most informative and complete resource for building muscles, speed, and stamina to enable the body to excel in judo, karate, aikido, kung fu, jujitsu, taekwondo, kempo, muay thai, and all other martial arts forms. The book provides martial artists with an abundance of easy to follow training techniques needed to be effective in the martial arts, such as flexibility, joint stabilization, balance, and muscle development. From recreational to professional, martial artists all over the world are already benefiting from this book’s techniques, and now you can too!

Secret training manuals, magic swords, and flying kung fu masters—these are staples of Chinese martial arts movies and novels, but only secret manuals have a basis in reality. Chinese martial arts masters of the past did indeed write such works, along with manuals for the general public. This collection introduces Western readers to the rich and diverse tradition of these influential texts, rarely available to the English-speaking reader. Authors Brian Kennedy and Elizabeth Guo, who coauthor a regular column for Classical Fighting Arts magazine, showcase illustrated manuals from the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and the Republican period. Aimed at fans, students, and practitioners, the book explains the principles, techniques, and forms of each system while also placing them in the wider cultural context of Chinese martial arts. Individual chapters cover the history of the manuals, Taiwanese martial arts, the lives and livelihoods of the masters, the Imperial military exams, the significance of the Shaolin Temple, and more. Featuring a wealth of rare photographs of great masters as well as original drawings depicting the intended forms of each discipline, this book offers a multifaceted portrait of Chinese martial arts and their place in Chinese culture.

Examines the learning process and gives the martial arts student hundreds of examples and solutions to problems he or she will encounter during training. More importantly, the aim of the book is to start the student on the road to becoming a critical thinker, a person who can use the highest stage of learning correlation to accelerate his or her education in the martial arts.

With over 40 years of experience Paul Brecher gives clear and insightful explanations of the Chinese Martial, Healing and Spiritual Arts. In this book he brings together all his knowledge and experience of Taoist Martial Arts. To help you to bring Yin Yang balance to your health and your life and make progress on your martial arts journey. Training in the Chinese Martial Arts brings three great benefits, good health, martial skill and understanding Tao - The Way. BOOK REVIEW by Paul Caswell This martial arts text covers all aspects of training, the theoretical, the historical and the technical. It is a rich and essential tool for anyone wanting to learn Old Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan, Pa Kua Chang and Wu Tang Shan Nei Jia Chuan. There are no fancy stories, self-publicizing images or unnecessary material. Just excellent quality teaching notes, written simply and easy to follow. Don't be fooled in thinking that this is a how-to manual. It is a tool designed to build deeper learning and supplement good old-fashioned hard work done in class and at home. As a former student of Paul's in the late 90's I only wish that I had this manual available to me as a student. I remember trying to write my own detailed notes for the Cannon Fist Form and some of the Wu Tang forms. It took me more time than necessary; it took me away from training and into writing about training. This text that Paul has produced now means that students do not need to waste time making unnecessary training notes. Everything in his system is in this text. It fills in many gaps, answers many questions and acts as both a reminder for learning that has taken place, and a signpost for future learning paths. This book has shown me how much I had learned in my time with Paul but also how much I had not learned. Don't be fooled into thinking that Paul is a mere tai chi instructor turned writer, metaphorically pontificating from his hand carved wooden throne, slowly caressing his long white beard, observing his students from a far in the training hall and thus with distain. In many ways, this text reflects Paul's characteristics both as a teacher, a healer and a man. He is epitomizes the Yin Yang symbol. He (and thus the text) is a vast font of internal martial and healing art knowledge, but he does not want to hold onto this information and slowly give it to you like masters of old. This text should be likened to an encyclopedia of all he teaches. No secrets, no special techniques. But it is only a compliment to regular training with Paul. This training manual demonstrates that Paul is tenacious and utterly committed to his training and thus developing his students. He smiles when he trains and does not take himself too seriously. This training manual is just that, a manual, not a doctrine to be worshipped. Paul is a formidable yet humble martial artist, he believes in what he does, what he teaches. More importantly, just like the material in this text, he can expertly and clearly demonstrate material in class. Paul is a writer second and a martial artist first. He can subtly evade your attacks, penetrate your defenses and make you wonder why you did not feel anything until his fingertips are millimeters from your eyes and throat whilst smiling as you realize what has just happened. I would whole-heartedly recommend this book to anybody with an interest in the Chinese Martial Arts and those on the path learning Paul's material, beginner or advanced. Note the emphasis on the word martial. This text, like Paul is a shining example of the chuan, the fist, the kung fu, the hard work being both an integral and primary aspect of the Chinese Internal Martial Arts. Paul Caswell 2009

Karate student training manual for the mixed Martial Art of Tae Ryu Do. Includes information for students from beginners up to Black Belt.