Yari
Master Black Belt
Review of "Living the Martial Way"
By Forrest E. Morgan, Maj USAF
ISBN: 0-942637-76-3
The book consits of 12 chapters, which are the different areas that the writer feels that a modern warrior should concern himself with. That's also reflected in the sub title: "A manual for the way a modern warrior should think".
I'm Danish and worried that the book would be too american for me. But it wasn't. It was a honest description of waht the author thinks is important to be called a modern budo-warrior.
The different chapters are as following:
Part one : The way of training
1) The warrior mind set
2) Your martial destiney
3) Train as warriors train
4) The warriors way of strategy
5) The warriors spell book
Part two: The way of honor
6) The foundations of honor
7) Honor in action
8) Revenge and Suicide: Perversions of honor
Part three: The way of living
9) Warrior fitness
10) Religion and Mysticism
11) The warrior stands alone
12 Mastery and the martial way
All the area's in the book based themselves on budo understanding. Therfor the book is a good referance for the people who need some inspiration to how budo fits the modern warrior.
I feel that the book can be read as a whole or in parts, and you still can get something good out of it. But I recommend that the whole book is read, since it's the total idea that's important.
The author himself is an blackblet in Hakko Ryu and Taekwondo Chung Do Kwan , but the styles are not reflected in his way of writting so that it hinders anybody to read it.
I would give this book 7 out of 8 tsuba's.
Enjoy!
/Yari
By Forrest E. Morgan, Maj USAF
ISBN: 0-942637-76-3
The book consits of 12 chapters, which are the different areas that the writer feels that a modern warrior should concern himself with. That's also reflected in the sub title: "A manual for the way a modern warrior should think".
I'm Danish and worried that the book would be too american for me. But it wasn't. It was a honest description of waht the author thinks is important to be called a modern budo-warrior.
The different chapters are as following:
Part one : The way of training
1) The warrior mind set
2) Your martial destiney
3) Train as warriors train
4) The warriors way of strategy
5) The warriors spell book
Part two: The way of honor
6) The foundations of honor
7) Honor in action
8) Revenge and Suicide: Perversions of honor
Part three: The way of living
9) Warrior fitness
10) Religion and Mysticism
11) The warrior stands alone
12 Mastery and the martial way
All the area's in the book based themselves on budo understanding. Therfor the book is a good referance for the people who need some inspiration to how budo fits the modern warrior.
I feel that the book can be read as a whole or in parts, and you still can get something good out of it. But I recommend that the whole book is read, since it's the total idea that's important.
The author himself is an blackblet in Hakko Ryu and Taekwondo Chung Do Kwan , but the styles are not reflected in his way of writting so that it hinders anybody to read it.
I would give this book 7 out of 8 tsuba's.
Enjoy!
/Yari