Great Reading

 

DAVE LOWRY: Persimmon Wind / Autumn Lightining / Sword and Brush / Moving Toward Stillness / Bokken (Art of the Japanese Sword) / Traditions (Essays on the Japanese Martial Arts and Ways) / Clouds in the West (lessons from the martial arts of Japan)

EIJI YOSHIKAWA: Musashi

FORREST E. MORGAN: Living the Martial Way

STEPHEN F. KAUFMAN: BOOK OF FIVE RINGS

PETER LEWIS: Myths and Legends of the Martial Arts / The Martial Arts Origins, Philosophy, Practice

SHIRO OMIYA: The Hidden Roots Of Aikido (Aiki Jujutsu Daitotyu) secret techniques of an acient martial art

DR. YANG, JWING-MING: Analysis of Shaolin Chin Na

CLIFFORD W. STEWART: Within Arm's Reach (guide to bodyguarding for the elite professional)

MICHAEL J. LORDEN: Oyama (the legend, the legacy)

NAGAYASU OGASAWARA: Textbook of Judo (for beginners, competitors and instructors)

JOHN CORCORAN and JOHN GRADEN: The Ultimate Martial Arts Q&A Book

CARL BROWN: The Law and The Martial Arts

WALLY JAY: Small Circle Jujitsu

JOKO NINOMIYA: Sabaki Method (karate in the inner circle) / My Journey in Karate

HIDEYUKI ASHIHARA: Fighting Karate

RUI UMEZAWA: The Empty Hand (a karate wordbook)

BRUCE LEE: Jeet Kune Do (bruce lee's commentaries on the martial way) edited by John Little

INAZO NITOBE: Bushido (the warriors code)

JACK SABAT: ZEN AND THE ART OF STREET FIGHTING (true battles of a modern day warrior)

KOICHI TOHEI: KI IN DAILY LIFE

DARRELL CRAIG and PAUL ANDERSON: SHIHAN-TE (the bunkai of karate kata)

ALLEN RUCKER: THE SOPRANOS (a family history)

RANDY B, HASKINS: UNDERSTANDING the CONNECTION (life lessons extracted from the physical) / INSIGHT 101 (the way of big power)

KEN WAYNE SHAMROCK: INSIDE the LIONS DEN

MICHAEL ROSENBAUM: Okinawa's Complete Karate System (Isshin Ryu) / KATA and the TRANSMISSION of KNOWLEDGE

KAZUMI TABATA: SECRET TACTICS

ERICH KRAUSS and BRET AITA: BRAWL (a behind-the-scenes look at mixed martial arts competition)

WILLIAM SCOTT WILSON: THE LONE SAMURAI (The Life of Miyamoto Musashi)

JOSE M. FRAGUAS: Karate Masters / Grappling Masters

JOHN DONOHUE: SENSEI

BILL BURGER: Five Years One Kata (Putting Kata Back at the Heart of Karate)

Marc Cerasini: WEAPON X

Dr. SAMPSON DAVIS, Dr. GEORGE JENKINS and Dr. RAMECK HUNT with LISA FRAZIER PAGE: THE PACT (Three young men make a promise and fullfill a dream)

RICHARD KIM: The WEAPONLESS WARRIOR (An Informal History of Okinawan Karate)

ART KEITH: SUCCESSFUL WRESTLING (Coaches' Guide for Teaching Basics to Advanced Skills)

HARVEY W. LIEBERGOTT: SCISSORS, ROCK, PAPER (A circular path through the martial arts)

LAWRENCE A. KANE and KRIS WILDER: THE WAY of KATA (a comprehensive guide to deciphering martial applications)

MARC "ANIMAL MacYOUNG: VIOLENCE, BLUNDERS, and FRACTURED JAWS (advanced awareness techniques and street etiquette)

JOACHIM GRUPP: SHOTOKAN KARATE KATA VOL. 1 / SHOTOKAN KARATE KATA VOL. 2

DAVID CHAMBERS: CLASSICAL FIGHTING ARTS MAGEZINE (formerly "Dragon Times")

GENE LEBELL and BOB CALHOUN: THE TOUGHEST MAN ALIVE

SYD HOARE: THE A-Z of JUDO

MARC TEDESCHI: ESSENTIAL ANATOMY For Healing & Martial Arts

HIROAKI SATO: THE SWORD 7 THE MIND (the classic japenese treatise on swordmanship and tactics)

JOHN MICHAEL GREER: THE ELEMENT ENCYCLOPEDIA of SECRET SOCIETIES AND HIDDEN HISTORY (the ultimate a-z of acient mysteries, lost civilizations and forgotten wisdom)

ROBERT GREENE: THE 48 LAWS of POWER

KRU TONY MOORE: MUAY THAI (the essential guide to matering the art)

PHONG THONG DANG and LYNN SEISER: ADVANCED AIKIDO

GOZO SHIODA with YASUHISA SHIODA: TOTAL AIKIDO (the master course)

MARK RICHARDSON: SIMPLY KARATE (fitness, self-defense, strength) book & dvd

AL ARSENAULT and JOE FAULISE: Chin Na In Ground Fighting (Principles, Theory and Submission Holds for all Martial Styles)

ROBERT W. SMITH: Martial Musings (A Potrayal of Martial Arts in the 20th Century)

ALLEN WHEELER: ISSHINRYU (the one heart-one mind method)

ART KEITH: SUCCESSFUL WRESTLING (coaches' guide for teaching basics to advanced skills)

JEAN-LUC ROUGE: HARAI-GOSHI

IAIAN ABERNETHY: BUNKAI-JUTSU (The Practical Application of Karate Kata)

KIRK LAWSON: Banned from Boxing (The forgotten grappling techniques of Classic Pugilism)

HOOSAIN NARKER: My Karate Odyssey (a Six M Journey Across North & Central America with my Dogi, Backpack & Laptop as travelling companions)

(Constantly Updated)

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