"Endorsed [by] the World Taekwondo Federation."

Author Jennifer MacKay provides an in-depth volume on the ancient sport of Taekwondo. Readers will learn about the physics and biomechanics of the sport. They will appreciate the amount of fitness and training that is involved to be great at the sport. Additionally, they'll learn about nutrition, injuries, and the psychology behind Taekwondo.

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.

Though humans have practiced martial arts for thousands of years, many scientists believe that fighting for recreation, without the intent to hurt, began with chimpanzees, far before humans made it into a sport. Today, martial arts are popular all over the world, with organized competitions and a multitude of differing styles. Be it Korean taekwondo or Brazilian jiu-jitsu, martial arts have become a staple of sports culture. Learn about the history of martial arts, from their pre-human beginnings to today's Olympic-level competition. Explore the most common injuries that martial artists sustain, including treatments and prevention strategies. In addition, find out about: • How martial artists maintain their health and fitness. • How stretching before athletic activity can prevent injury. • What kinds of training martial artists must undergo in order to be competitive. • The importance of good nutrition. • The dangers of performance-enhancing drugs.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical, political, and technical evolution of taekwondo. Many of the supposedly ‘traditional’ and ‘ancient’ Korean cultural elements attached to taekwondo are, in fact, remnants of East Asia’s modernization drive, and largely inherited from the Japanese martial arts. The current historical portrayal has created an obstacle to a clear understanding of the history of taekwondo, and presents problems and contradictions in philosophy and training methodology. Using rich empirical data, including interviews with leading figures in the field, this book brings together martial arts philosophy with an analysis of the technical aspects and the development of taekwondo, and provides a detailed comparison of karate and taekwondo techniques. It debunks nationalistic mythology surrounding taekwondo to provide a reinterpretation of taekwondo’s evolution.

The reawakening of Asian martial arts is a distinct example of cultural hybridity in a global setting. This book deals with history of Asian martial arts in the contexts of tradition, religion, philosophy, politics and culture. It attempts to deepen the study of martial arts studies in their transformation from traditional to modern sports. It is also important that this book explores how Asian martial arts, including Shaolin martial arts and Taekwondo, have worked as tools for national advocate of identities among Asians in order to overcome various national hardships and to promote nationalism in the modern eras. The Asian martial arts certainly have been transformed in both nature and content into unique modern sports and they have contributed to establishing cultural homogeneity in Asia. This phenomenon can be applied to the global community. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Taekwondo is the most widely practiced martial art in the world. Many of the elements of this 2000 year old, Korean martial art have remained timeless and unchanged through the centuries. However, with the proliferation of Taekwondo as an Olympic Sport, the speed, stamina, and strength required for athletes to compete on a high level has increased greatly. While Dojang practice is invaluable to the modern practitioner, so is the implementation of supplemental workout routines designed to enhance competitive Taekwondo performance. From the leading Taekwondo author in the world today, Marc Zirogiannis, The Ultimate Taekwondo Workout Book offers a series of routines and exercises designed, specifically, for today's competitive Taekwondo practitioner. These routines were constructed with the feedback from some of the leading personal and fitness trainers in the world today. Practitioners using these routines will see results!

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