self defense essays
February 3rd, 2010
American Political Thought Abstract: "The fall of the [Soviet] empire," former Czech President Vaclav Havel wrote, "is an event on the same scale of historical importance as the fall of the Roman Empire. "
Bas Rutten Street Defense – The Better Version
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The Book of Five Rings (Bushido–The Way of the Warrior) $11.55 To learn a Japanese martial art is to learn Zen, and although you can’t do so simply by reading a book, it sure does help–especially if that book is The Book of Five Rings. One of Japan’s great samurai sword masters penned in decisive, unfaltering terms this certain path to victory, and like Sun Tzu’s The Art of War it is applicable not only on the battlefield but also in all forms of competition… |
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Iron and Silk $4.00 In 1982, Salzman flew off to teach English in Changsha, China. He writes of bureaucrats, students and Cultural Revolution survivors, stripping none of their complexity and humanity. He’s gentle with their idiocies, saving his sharpest barbs for himself (it’s his pants that split from zipper to waist whilst demonstrating martial arts in Canton). Though dribs of history and drabs of classical… |
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Cheng Tzu’s Thirteen Treatises on T’ai Chi Ch’uan $12.98 In this erudite yet practical book Professor Cheng shares the secrets of his lineage and takes us to the heart of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, presenting it as a martial artm a medicine, and a means of exercise and self-development. With examples from anatomy and physics, he demonstrates precisely how the postures and moves work, internally as energetic principles, and externally on opponents. Professor Cheng… |