AIKIDO is a little known but highly scientific series of techniques dealing with self-defence that dates back to the Kiamakura Period in Japan.

Aikido is a new Japanese martial art that combines the best of all the other martial arts. Aikido tends to overcome differences in strength and size.

The complete illustrated guide to Enjoying Combat Sports. Including rules, procedures, simple training techniques, and a glossary of terms.

The Japanese sword, long famous in history and admired throughout the world, has often been a subject for Western writers

Qigong is a traditional Chinese movement practice that is most often done to maintain health or to relieve specific illnesses. Here, Sat Chuen Hon, a master teacher and practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine and Taoist healing arts

Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan) is one of the most popular and effective health and exercise activities practiced today.

CHINESE KARATE KUNG FU is a fascinating form of karate that originated in China and was once considered too mysterious to be understood by any but a privileged few.

Closely related to taijiquan, baguazhang is one of the three internal arts and, like its counterparts, can be used to kill as well as to heal.

Training in the many arts of kung fu usually encompasses working with weapons. It is one of kung fu's longest and most historical traditions to train

Pioneering is never easy and is a very lonely path which few have the courage to travel. Both men are proficient in their respective arts of karate and kung-fu

They are the modern-day gladiators. This exceptional collection of photographs puts you in the cage with the world's best Mixed Martial Arts fighters and takes you behind the walls of the dojo and into their lives - you can't get closer than this.

Living The Martial Way is a concise manual for training in warriorship.

Actually, this book was never meant for publication. I started out taking notes on wing chun in 1962 so I could teach kung-fu

The origin of judo, we are told that it originated in China, India and Japan, but there is no doubt that, wherever it may have started, it developed in Japan.

This book, the third and final volume of the Martial Arts and Ways of Japan Series, clearly defines the history, aims, and techniques of the martial disciplines that have developed in Japan since the end of feudal rule in 1868.

Too many policemen are injured in the line of duty because self defense training has simply not kept pace with other technical advances in modern police work. Yet crisis-intervention is an increasing part of the day-to-day challenges of law enforcement.