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kikr
White Belt
Joined: 17 Jun 2006
Posts: 21
Location: Jacksonville, Fl
Styles: TKD, Kempo, JiuJitsu
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Col Dave Grossman "On Killing"
Gavin DeBecker "The Gift of Fear"
Rick Fields "The Code of the Warrior"
Plus many of the books mentioned already. Remember The more you know, the less they can use against you.
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rompie
White Belt
Joined: 30 Jun 2006
Posts: 1
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"zen in martial arts" is pretty good  |
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css1971
White Belt
Joined: 05 Jul 2006
Posts: 7
Styles: There is only Karate, there are no styles.
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Ian Abernethy's Bunkai Jutsu.
Plus the videos. It's all about real practical karate. It completely opened my eyes to some of the long forgotten and truly brutal techniqes encoded into the kata and to the meaningless irrelevance of styles. If you never read any other book on karate, this one is something you absolutely must read.
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Ian Abernethy's Karate's Grappling Methods
This book shows the true nature of karate. A mixed martial art from the beginning. It isn't just kickboxing.
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ff100
Yellow Belt
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Posts: 71
Styles: Kyokushin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: Lets add some Kyokushin in here |
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alsey
Purple Belt
Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Posts: 501
Location: UK
Styles: shotokan (2nd dan), jujitsu (3rd kyu), kendo (1st dan).
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Ian Abernethy's Bunkai Jutsu.
Plus the videos. It's all about real practical karate. It completely opened my eyes to some of the long forgotten and truly brutal techniqes encoded into the kata and to the meaningless irrelevance of styles. If you never read any other book on karate, this one is something you absolutely must read.
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Ian Abernethy's Karate's Grappling Methods
This book shows the true nature of karate. A mixed martial art from the beginning. It isn't just kickboxing. |
YES!!! these are the best modern books on karate IMO.
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scottnshelly
KF VIP
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
Posts: 715
Location: Ardmore, Oklahoma
Styles: My Style
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mavi
White Belt
Joined: 30 Oct 2006
Posts: 1
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Right....
Bruce lees tou id defenitely one of the best.
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NightOwl
KF Sempai
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 987
Location: Japan
Styles: This and that, Rookie Judo
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A hard to find and very technical book, but one of the best on the history of Chinese martial arts:
The Spring and Autumn of Chinese martial Arts -5000 years-
by professor Kang Gewu
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 12844
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo,Hapkido, SCA Combat, and I research Medieval Combat
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I have decided to post the books that I have in my library. My library is not all-inclusive, by any stretch of the imagination, but I would like to share what I have.
It is quite a list, so I will post it in chunks. I may also give a little synopsis of each that I have read, just to give an idea of what the book is about, and if it may be one that interests some of you.
I'll start with Korean Styles:
The Way of Traditional Taekwondo, 11 volumes
Grand Master Haeng Ung Lee
Encyclopedia of Taekwon-do, 15 volumes
General Choi Hong Hi
Man Of Contrasts
The Complete Tae Kwon Do Hyung, 3 volumes
The Complete Black Belt Hyung W.T.F.
The Complete Master’s Kick
The Complete Master’s Jumping Kick
The Complete One & Three Step Sparring
The Complete Martial Artist, 2 volumes
Master Hee Il Cho
The Complete Book of Taekwon Do Forms
Keith D. Yates
The Secrets of Tae Kwon Do
Jennifer Lawler, Ph.D.
Ch’ang Hon Taekwon-do Hae Sul Real Applications to the ITF Patterns
Stuart Paul Anslow
Taekwondo Kyorugi, 2 editions
Sang H. Kim, Ph.D., w/Kuk H. Chung, Kyung M. Lee
Tae Kwon Do The Ultimate Reference Guide to the World’s Most Popular Martial Art
Yeon Hee Park, Yeon Hwan Park, Jon Gerrard
Black Belt Tae Kwon Do The Ultimate Reference Guide to the World’s Most Popular Black Belt Martial Art
Yeon Hwan Park, Jon Gerrard
Tae Kwon Do The Korean Martial Art, 2 editions.
Advancing in Tae Kwon Do
Moo Duk Kwan Tae Kwon Do Korean Art of Self-Defense
Richard Chun
Taekwondo Techniques and Tactics Skills for sparring and self-defense
Yeon Hwan Park, Tom Seabourne, Ph.D.
Hapkido Korean Art of Self-Defense
Scott Shaw
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Tae Kwon Do
Karen Eden, Keith Yates
Taekwondo The State of the Art
Master Sung Chul Whang, Master Jun Chul Whang, Brandon Saltz
Authentic Tang Soo Do The Traditional Martial Art of Korea
Chun Sik Kim, Joe Goss
Taekwondo Textbook
Kukkiwon
Complete Taekwondo Poomsae
Kyu Hyung Lee, Sang H. Kim
Chon-Ji of Tae Kwon Do Hyung
Tan-Gun and To-San of Tae Kwon Do Hyung
Won-Hyo and Yul-Kok of Tae Kwon Do Hyung
Chung-Gun and Toi-Gye of Tae Kwon Do Hyung
Jhoon Rhee
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 12844
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo,Hapkido, SCA Combat, and I research Medieval Combat
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My books on Japanese styles include:
Jujitsu Techniques and Tactics: skills for sparring and self-defense
Doug Musser, Thomas A. Lang
Karate Techniques and Tactics: skills for sparring and self-defense
Patrick M. Hickey
Judo Techniques and Tactics
Jimmy Pedro
Aikido Techniques and Tactics: the ultimate system for street defense
Gary Bennett
The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Karate
Randall G. Hassell, Edmond Otis
Kodokan Judo
Jigoro Kano
Small-Circle Jujitsu
Wally Jay
Secrets of the Samurai The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan
Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere
Adele Westbrook, Oscar Ratti
The Way of Sanchin Kata The Application of Power
Kris Wilder
Best Karate series
1. Comprehensive
2. Fundamentals
3. Kumite 1
4. Kumite 2
5. Heian, Tekki
6. Bassai, Kanku
M. Nakayama
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