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3) Grappling
Author
Series
Publisher
ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Explores grappling, weaving together history, culture, geography and politics. This ten-book series explores the martial arts, weaving together history, culture, geography, and politics to give readers a balanced perspective of the world's fighting systems. Author Jim Ollhoff, Ph.D., holds a second-degree black belt in Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate, as well as intermediate belts in Korean Tae Kwon Do and Chinese Kung Fu. Series editor John Hamilton is...
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Lee goes to the island fortress of a warlord of crime, Han, who carries on his opium smuggling and prostitution activities under the disguise of a martial arts academy. Determined to avenge the death of his sister, Lee penetrates Han's stronghold and enters the brutal martial arts tournament Han is staging. The fighting sequences, staged by Lee himself, demonstrate the skills of karate, judo, tai kwan do, tai chichuan, and hapkido.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Inspired by the story of a real-life hero, Huo Yuanjia. When an ill-advised fight destroys the reputation of a renowned martial arts champion and his family, his difficult path to redemption will bring him face-to-face with the most ferocious fighters in the world.
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure) volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
The reader's decisions control the course of an adventure in Japan, in which the arrival of a sword in the mail has precipitated a terrible curse.
10) Silver Hawk
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Lulu Wong lives a double life. She is part urban social butterfly and part vigilante superhero. Armed with ancient hand-to-hand fighting techniques and high tech hardware, Lulu is a beautiful masked millionaire battling to defeat a greedy entrepreneur intent on enslaving the world.
Author
Publisher
S. Weiser
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Most books about Kung Fu or Karate deal with techniques or history. Few examine the underlying purpose of these arts, or approach them as a tool for spiritual, rather than physical, development. Barefoot Zen is a brave new approach to the martial arts, which clearly demonstrates that the traditional movements of both Kung Fu and Karate, contained in the solo choreographed sequences of movements known as forms (or kata), grew out of the spiritual practices...
12) Kung Fu
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Kwai Chang Caine is a Shaolin monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emperor's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun, like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but continually run into trouble from gunfighters and others as they oppress the innocent, while bounty hunters pursue the price...
Author
Publisher
Black Belt Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This definitive examination of jeet kune do techniques explains how to survive attacks on the street, increase training awareness, and develop body movements. Originally compiled as a four-volume series, this revised edition includes digitally-enhanced photography of founder Bruce Lee in his prime, a new chapter by former Lee student Ted Wong, and an introduction by Shannon Lee.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Owen Johnson's journey to China to learn about his birth parents eventually leads him to a mysterious Shaolin Temple. The students there study to rediscover the Fire Power, the lost art of throwing fireballs. A power they claim will be needed soon to save the world. Will Owen Johnson be the first person in a thousand years to wield the FIRE POWER?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tai chi chin na will help you include martial art skills in your tai chi training. Chin na, along with punching, kicking, and wrestling, is one of the four categories that are required in a traditional martial art. This book provides a solid and practical approach to learning tai chi chin na accurately and quickly. You will learn specific techniques that flow from each movement, the proper hand forms to use when striking or pressing cavities, and...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Kwai Chang Caine is a Shaolin monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emperor's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun, like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but continually run into trouble from gunfighters and others as they oppress the innocent, while bounty hunters pursue the price...
Publisher
YMAA Publication Center
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Like tai chi, bagua has been known for centuries as a powerful way to transform health, improve strength, and raise the spirit. This invigorating training increases the circulation of qi (energy) that will energize the muscles for increased strength. This energy also nourishes internal organs and improves longevity, vitality, and overall fitness.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace.
Author
Series
Bruce Lee library volume 2
Language
English
Description
This is a book that Bruce Lee began writing in 1964, but never published. While written over 30 years ago, its publication now is truly a landmark event, as it not only offers glimpses into the many martial arts of China but also offers Lee's own interpretations and comments on these arts. Available for the first time, The Tao of Gung Fu includes not only insights into and descriptions of various Chinese martial arts, but Eastern and Western fitness...
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