The Xingyi Quan of the Chinese Army
Written by Dennis Rovere
Price: $16.95
Blue Snake Books
Huang Bo Nien’s Xingyi Fist and Weapon Instruction was the first manual to systematically adapt a traditional Chinese martial art for modern military training. When it was first published in Chinese in 1928, it was heralded as an exciting new approach to martial arts; today, it remains an important work for...
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Liu Bin's Zhuang Gong Bagua Zhang
Foundation Practices, Volume One
Written by Zhang Jie, Contribution by Richard Shapiro
Price: $24.95
Blue Snake Books
One of the three major orthodox internal styles of Chinese martial arts (along with Xing Yi Quan and Tai Ji Quan), Bagua Zhang (or Ba Gua Zhang) is also one of the most ancient and revered. The first volume in a series of two on the form, Liu Bin’s Zhuang...
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Walking the I Ching
The Linear Ba Gua of Gao Yi Sheng
Written by Allen Pittman
Price: $17.95
Blue Snake Books
Ba gua is one of the internal styles of the Chinese martial arts, a "circular" walking technique that helps train the mind and body to recognize and accept change. Characterized by its spinning movements and extremely evasive footwork, ba gua is often used as a means to protect others, much like...
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Flashing Steel, 2nd edition
Mastering Eishin-Ryu Swordsmanship
Written by Leonard Pellman and Masayuki Shimabukuro
Price: $22.95
Blue Snake Books
Flashing Steel, the best-selling and highly acclaimed book on iaijutsu (alternatively called iaido), is as much about bringing life into focus as it is about techniques of swordsmanship. Iaijutsu was the martial art of the samurai of feudal Japan who remain the most enduring of warrior icons, equally popular in the...
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Nei Jia Quan, 2nd edition
Internal Martial Arts
Written by Jess O'Brien
Price: $21.95
Blue Snake Books
In this illuminating book, prominent masters offer an informed, inside view of the Chinese internal martial arts known collectively as “nei jia quan”–those practices that emphasize awareness of the spirit, mind, qi (breath, or energy flow), and the use of relaxed leverage rather than brute force. Drawing from enduring traditions practiced...
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Chin Na Fa
Traditional Chinese Submission Grappling Techniques
Written by Jinsheng Liu and Jiang Zhao, Translated by Tim Cartmell
Price: $16.95
Blue Snake Books
First published in 1936, this work represents primary source material of ancient combat techniques designed in a time of occupation and war, when the threat of lethal hand-to-hand combat was an ever-present reality for soldiers, those involved in law enforcement, and very often for the ordinary citizen. This is the seminal...
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The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang
The Art and Legends of the Eight Trigram Palm
Written by Frank Allen and Tina Chunna Zhang
Price: $21.95
Blue Snake Books
This is the most complete book on the art of Ba Gua Zhang ever presented in English. It tells the story of the history and legends of the art and its most famous masters as well as presenting the basic training, forms, fighting and weapons of Ba Gua Zhang. The text...
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Rumi Maki Fighting Arts
Martial Techniques of the Peruvian Inca
Written by Juan Ramon Flores and Alex Bushman Vega
Price: $17.95
Blue Snake Books
An unprecedented voyage into the world of Peru’s indigenous warrior culture, Rumi Maki offers a fascinating look at this exotic martial art as preserved by a practicing master. The book begins win an in-depth look at the history of the sacred Incan fighting arts, dispelling many of the myths surrounding them...
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Arnis Self-Defense
Stick, Blade, and Empty-Hand Combat Techniques of the Philippines
Written by Jose Paman
Price: $19.95
Blue Snake Books
The book features a twofold, interrelated focus. First, it looks at the unique Filipino culture; how it was greatly influenced by Spanish colonization, the oppression it suffered under foreign rule, and how the native yearning for freedom led to the development of the martial art of arnis. The book then presents...
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Warrior Arts and Weapons of Ancient Hawaii
Written by Sid Campbell
Price: $39.95
Blue Snake Books
Until recently, the cultural lore of the ancient warriors of Hawaii was considered lost. This absorbing history documents the complex customs and military traditions of the ancient koa warriors, and the deadly tools they used in battles among the rival chieftains and kings. The warriors employed a wide array of deceptively...
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Pa-Kua
Chinese Boxing for Fitness and Self-Defense
Written by Robert Smith
Price: $14.95
Blue Snake Books
Originally published in 1967, Pa-Kua was the West’s first look into the esoteric Chinese martial arts. It has been a valued and sought after text ever since. It was put out of print in the 1970’s, but since that time interest in the martial arts have continued to skyrocket. Pa-Kua gives...
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The Wing Chun Compendium
Written by Wayne Belonoha
Price: $43.95
Blue Snake Books
The Wing Chun Compendium explains the theory of wing chun from a technical, lifestyle, and philosophical perspective. Written by Wayne Belonoha—a certified Ving Tsun Instructor and National Certified Coach, 7th Level, Master Degree—the compendium offers hundreds of tips and techniques specifically designed to help readers advance to the next stage. The...
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The Method of Chinese Wrestling
Written by Tong Zhongyi, Translated by Tim Cartmell
Price: $17.95
Blue Snake Books
One of the art's earliest and most complete training manuals, The Method of Chinese Wrestling explores all aspects of this ancient fighting system, including solo training, training with equipment, constructing training apparatus, application of techniques, and the rules of competition. Throwing, gripping, and falling techniques are revealed in minute detail, and...
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Judo in the U.S.
A Century of Dedication
Written by Michael Brousse and David Matsumoto
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the United States Judo Federation, this volume traces the more than 100-year history of judo practice in America. The authors begin with a comprehensive survey of Japan's classical disciplines, which sets the foundation for understanding what judo is and what it means to the people who...
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The Malay Art of Self-Defense
Silat Seni Gayong
Written by Sheikh Shamsuddin
Price: $17.95
North Atlantic Books
Silat Seni Gayong is an art of self-defense, a fighting art but one that also emphasizes the development of the self, becoming a better person, and serving humanity. Sometimes compared to a tiger ready to devour its prey, Gayong helps practitioners develop and increase physical fitness, flexibility, mental conditioning, and self-confidence...
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Ju No Kata
A Kodokan Textbook
Written by Keiko Fukuda
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
This book describes the history and importance of Ju No Kata—the science of what it takes to execute throws—to the study and practice of judo. It also serves as a semi autobiography of the author, Keiko Fukuda, who is the world's foremost authority on Ju No Kata. At the age of...
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Judo
History, Theory, Practice
Written by Vladamir Putin, Vasily Shestakov and Alexey Levitsky, Preface by George Russell and Keiko Fukuda
Price: $20.00
North Atlantic Books
Authors Vladimir Putin, Vasily Shestakov, and Alexy Levitsky give a complete history of judo, from its origins in Japanese jujitsu through its development into an Olympic sport, including Russia's contributions to the art. The rules and basic concepts are covered, followed by detailed instruction in break-falling, throwing techniques, and ground grappling...
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Cheng Hsin
Principles of Effortless Power
Written by Peter Ralston
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Every once in a while you find a high impact book. Something that awakens something deep within and lasts forever. This is the one. It is a book that you can pick up time and time again and always gets something new out of it, or something deeper than you. Cheng...
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Ba Gua
Advanced Hidden Knowledge in the Taoist Internal Martial Art
Written by John Bracy
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
The Taoist yogic discipline of Ba Gua is an internal form of the ancient art of kung fu--as are the much older t'ai chi and Xing I. Ba Gua is the most arcane and yogic of three sister arts--t'ai chi and Xing I are the others--and is distinguished by serpentine turning...
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Cheng Hsin T'ui Shou
The Art of Effortless Power
Written by Peter Ralston
Price: $22.50
North Atlantic Books
This book provided this beginning tai-chi student with a rich, methodical philosophical "grounding" on some concepts that that are at the core of Eastern martial arts. Ralston helps the reader develop an awareness, quite literally "from the ground up".
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