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Never Quit: The Journey of a Million Miles

Never Quit: The Journey of a Million Miles

Never Quit: The Journey of a Million Miles is a story of turbulence, triumph and hope. Passionate, provocative and inspiring. This book will make...
Marina Ustinova

Dr. Marina Ustinova

Dr. Marina Ustinova received her medical degree at the age of 23 from Samara University in Russia, where she next completed a year of...
Richard Ostrofsky Aikido Principles

Aikido Principles

You can't learn much about aikido just by reading. Many hours of practice and experiment are needed before the ideas presented here will have...
Sensei Ryan Speaks Out

Sensei Ryan Speaks Out About Life

Today Sensei Ryan Speaks Out about Life and his message will help make our lives better and more fulfilling. Did you lose contact with someone...
Balance in Eating and Diet

Balance and Discipline

You can never be too rich or to thin. We’ve all heard that old saying before. Of course, it’s a ridiculous thing to say. There’s...
Martial Arts Training DVD's

Can Training DVDs Teach Techniques as Well as Humans?

In recent years there's been a boom in the sales of martial arts training DVDs designed to teach certain skill sets to viewers. As...
The Christian Martial Arts Magazine

The Christian Martial Artist Magazine

The Christian Martial Artist was a free online publication for all martial artists who serve the ultimate Master, God. The magazine included profiles from...
The Princess and the Ogre: Martial Arts Based Nursery Rhymes

The Princess and the Ogre: Martial Arts Based Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales for...

Many of the fairy tales and nursery rhymes you know are wrong. To write The Princess and the Ogre: Martial Arts Based Nursery Rhymes...
Sensei Ryan Speaks Out

Wrap Up Extension Cords, Ropes or Cables

Never fight with tangled cables again! The best way in the world to wrap up extension cords is by using the basic or advanced...
Kumdo

Kum Do

Kum Do (Kendo) - The art of sword fencing Guhapdo (Iado) - The art of drawing the sword and cutting Ki Kong -...
Gordon Richiusa 5 Bird System

Gordon Richiusa: Five Bird System

When is a style really a style? What makes a fighter a martial artist? And what do we call a style that is founded...

Bruce Lee: A Life

“The first noteworthy treatment of its subject—and a definitive one at that...Fascinating narrative threads proliferate” (The New York Times Book Review). Bruce Lee: A Life...
Sugar vs Fat

Sugar vs Fat

Enough with the soda pop already (even the diet stuff, but for different reasons – like cancer). For decades we were told by “experts”...

Sam Sheridan Books

The Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game In his acclaimed national best seller, A Fighter’s Heart, Sam Sheridan took readers with him as he stepped...
Inside Kung-Fu Magazine

Inside Kung-Fu Magazine

Inside Kung-Fu Magazine covered a wide spectrum of martial arts styles including kung-fu, tai chi, muay thai and Korean and Japanese styles. Inside Kung Fu...

Gichin Funakoshi Quotes

Okinawan karate master Gichin Funakoshi is the founder of Shotokan Karate-Do and is known as  the "father of modern karate". He, along with other Okinawan karate masters, introduced...