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Old Steel is a personal chronicle about how we must evolve and rethink our martial arts training and teachings as we age. Old Steel challenges us as aging martial artists to change how we think about the very nature of our martial arts. Gabelhouse offers up a narrative about how we can positively evolve our martial training through the changes and challenges of old age. Old Steel will benefit not only aging martial artists, but also those who can see old age from where they are standing in life.

Bushido significa muchas cosas, pero todas pueden resumirse en una: el alma de Japón. Este antiguo código guerrero japonés supone un tratado con todos los preceptos interiorizados por el pueblo japonés desde tiempos inmemoriales, y supone una radiografía pormenorizada de su identidad, su historia y su razón de ser.

Cette interprétation martiale du fameux "Livre des Cinq Roues", renoue avec l'intention originaire de cet écrit qui concerne avant tout, si ce n'est exclusivement, le combattant. Y sont exposées et expliquées les vérités sans lesquelles on ne peut comprendre réellement et en profondeur les messages du fameux escrimeur Miyamoto Musashi. Stephen Kaufman, fondamentalement respectueux de l'œuvre du Maître, nous livre un traité de stratégie martiale qui associe l'approche instinctive du combat à une analyse philosophique.

"Le Hagakure", qui fut écrit au début du XVIIIe siècle, rassemble des préceptes, leçons et épisodes historiques liés à la voie du samouraï. Ce livre audio fut dicté par un samouraï devenu moine, Tsunetomo Yamamoto, à l'un de ses disciples, Tashiro. Tsuramoto, qui compila les récits de son maître dans quelque onze volumes.

Warriors of myth and legend, yet as real as a throat slit in the night, 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.

My childhood had been cool enough. Horses and four-wheelers to ride, farmland to explore, good friends. The one blemish: a school bus bully. A year older and always bigger, this guy we'll call "Larry" started picking on me around kindergarten - flipping my ear, frogging my leg, reminding me how much of a wimp I was - and I let him get away with it. With literally hundreds of chances (every miserable ride to and from school), I never fought back. And while I’d done a stint in the military, earned a fancy degree, and started a family, I was always haunted by the lingering shame.

Learn how to achieve your goals, mentally and physically, by the art of kickboxing MMA, cardio based drills, and HITT training to become the person you always wanted to be.

Can a martial art improve your life? Neko Ryu Goshin Jitsu goes farther than other martial arts. Its philosophy and principles describe a way of interacting with the world. A way compatible with Christianity, Stoicism, and Buddhism. Its principles are practical. They apply to individuals, families, and nations. This short book isn’t about “moves”. You won’t learn throws or joint locks here.

Smart Defences is a practical self-defence system consisting of 27 basic defences that fully utilize the mind, body, and spirit. These Smart Defences serve as a trusted long-term process and ensure the proper practice, timing, and bodily response in all of life’s situations. This simple system was designed to feel natural, like a stimulant that your body needs to repeat every day, week, and month. Over time, you will become a master of your entire body.

The best way to learn about something is to ask someone with experience. That gets a little tricky, though, if you want to learn about abductions, burglaries, home invasions, and various other criminal acts committed by people you’d probably prefer not to sit down and have a cup of coffee with. Thankfully, if you own this audiobook, you won’t have to.

This is a short guide aimed at absolute beginners who would like to start kickboxing by training at home or are just looking for an effective home workout routine and want to try something new. Learn punches, kicks, knees, elbows, and how to avoid them! Master footwork, guards, and advanced strikes and learn how to shadow box -all from the comfort of your own home.

From ancient times to the modern era, martial arts has consistently evolved over the centuries and continues to evolve and thrive today. At the turn of the 20th century, martial arts saw perhaps its greatest evolution as many Japanese and Okinawan martial arts masters of the time no longer looked at martial arts as a mere tool of warfare, but instead as systems that have immeasurable mental and physical health benefits.

Enslaved teen martial artist Bensin is just one victory away from freedom—or one mistake away from disaster. But when a bitter rival frames him for a crime he didn’t commit, his fate is sealed with ruthless efficiency: a lifetime as a gladiator, forced to fight and bleed to entertain a bloodthirsty audience. Every day pushes Bensin to his limits as he struggles to survive in an environment designed to break him. The brutal system strips men of their identity, but Bensin refuses to be just another pawn in its deadly game. Defiance, however, comes at a high price.

This is a book based on over 50 years of teaching and personal experience. Start this audiobook on any location, and you will go away with great insights into the mindset of a aaster in everyday situations, training, and actual combat....

Sun Tzu was a famous Chinese general whose mastery of strategy was so exceptional that he reportedly transformed 180 courtesans into skilled soldiers in a single training session. While that episode was likely exaggerated, historians agree that Sun Tzu defeated the Ch'u, Qi, and Chin states for King Ho-Lu, forging his empire. With methods so powerful they can conquer an adversary's spirit, you can use Master Tzu's strategies to overcome any challenge, from warfare to self-defense to business negotiations.

Da quando a sette anni è salita per la prima volta sul tatami, Sara Cardin non ha mai smesso di combattere. Dalle prime gare a livello locale, quando si impone all'attenzione degli allenatori per il suo talento, alle sfide più importanti, oggi Sara Cardin vanta 20 titoli italiani, 7 Assoluti, svariate medaglie d'oro ai Campionati Europei e alle Premier League, e soprattutto il podio più importante della sua vita, nel 2014: Campionessa del mondo di karate. Oltre alle battaglie sul campo, questo audiolibro avvincente, che è più di una biografia.

This book is about a journey. A journey of perspective. We all go through life with our own perceptions and expectations based on our pasts, experiences, and beliefs. Beliefs of how things are or how they should be. We interpret experiences and assign meanings to them. Many times, the meanings we assign, and the perceptions we have based on them, are very limited. We project our preconceived notions into situations which oftentimes keeps us from fully understanding or appreciating the opportunities we have at our fingertips.

Like the legendary Hellenic hero Prometheus, George Dillman is both admired and criticized for sharing once arcane knowledge with the wider world. His pioneering work in the field of pressure point fighting has had made a profound and lasting impression on the landscape of the martial arts. By any standard, Dillman is a martial giant. Here, then, for the first time anywhere, is his story, told in the words of the man himself, and those of his students, and voiced by one of his senior instructors...

You get a book about the history of mixed martial arts and MMA figures as well as a mixed martial arts figures price guide combined in one book. 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 into a no-holds-barred competition, and it has maintained this persona to date.

Es kann jeden von uns unerwartet und unvorbereitet treffen: Gewalt und Schlägereien auf offener Straße. Obwohl die gesundheitlichen Folgen oft erheblich sind, ist diese fatale Entwicklung ein Tabuthema: Immer häufiger genügt es, zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort zu sein, ein schiefer Blick oder ein unbedachtes Wort - und selbst friedliebende Bürger finden sich innerhalb von Sekunden in einem Konflikt wieder. In der Regel werden die Opfer dabei schwer verletzt. Aktuelle Fälle machen deutlich, dass die Konflikte immer wieder tödlich enden.