Yang-style Taiji Quan is one of the main schools of Chinese Taiii Quan. Like the other schools, the Yang-style is characterized by its combination of hardness and softness,

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MARTIAL ARTS provides a thorough analysis of four of the fighting arts in all their physical and psychological aspects.

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All the facts, legends and technique of the ninja are presented here y one of the foremost authorities on the subject.

It is the complete manual for the instructor who wishes to give his pupils the best possible tuition by utilizing the grading syllabus of the British Judo Association

Yukio Mishima was the best-known writer of his generation in Japan. His death by hara-kir in 1970, combined as it was with an abortive attempt at a coup d'état, caused an international sensation.

Bujutsu, Japan's classical systems of martial training, taught the warrior how to gain complete mastery of his weapons and of himself.

Fighting techniques of Chinese internal martial arts were suppressed and ultimately lost during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.

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