Bruce Tegners books

[terryl965]

I was at a half price book store this past weekend and found this book called - Bruce Tegner complete book of self defense it was published in 1963 and it is funny that alot of stuff in there I still see people do today but they call it there own way of doing things. I find his books to be a good read and alot of info. in regards to personal protection of that era. Anybody else ever read his stuff?

 

[Sukerkin]

I'm currently wracking my brain as I know his name and I can't place where I have come across it . If I go to the library and find we have one of his books on the Martial Arts shelf I shall be most embarassed :lol:.

 

[jarrod]

bruce tegner was well ahead of his time. the idea of cross training is nothing new. i also have a book called "playboy's book of self-defense" or something like that, actually published by playboy magazine back in the '70s. the main idea of it was don't grapple with a wrestler & don't box a boxer.

jf

 

[ackks10]

that's really crazy that you bring his name up,the other day i was talking about him to someone,and yes i remember him, he had alot of books back then,lets see there was Bruce Tegners book on karate,judo,kung-fu and i think he had one about savate (french foot fighting) ,i know this is big, sorry

 

[arnisador]

Oh yeah. I had a bunch of his books! They...varied in quality.

Bruce Tegner

 

[Deaf Smith]

To be honest along time ago I had a few of his books. Kind of outdated and, well, very basic stuff (to me at least.) It was all kind of quaint. I'm sure if you had no training in self-defense they at least got you interested in it.

If you guys want to go back and see how people dressed in England in the 70s, read "Book of Self-Defense" by Honor Blackman. Happly I have a copy and she did know Judo! But like Bruce, it's all kind of quaint.

Deaf

 

[Sukerkin]

Mmm ... Honor Blackman ... sorry, got distracted there :lol:.

 

[tshadowchaser]

I have a couple of Mr. Tegners books still. I can remember reading the first one I picked up and then me and a couple friends going out and trying the moves. A couple of us stayed in the arts or should I say studied when the oppertunity arrived. Botj made it to Black Belt
They where good books and opened the eyes of many to the martial arts

 

[ackks10]

I have a couple of Mr. Tegners books still. I can remember reading the first one I picked up and then me and a couple friends going out and trying the moves. A couple of us stayed in the arts or should I say studied when the oppertunity arrived. Botj made it to Black Belt
They where good books and opened the eyes of many to the martial arts

you are 100,percent right, i was going to say the same thing, because alot of us did the same thing back then,also do you remember inside of comic books,they had this ad for karate, and it had a picture (drawing) of this guy doing this high kick, to me back then it was cool ,i found these wow!! talk about going back in time

 

[BrandonLucas]

I could be mistaken here, but is that not the book that Daniel-san was reading in Karate Kid?

"You learn Karate from book?"

 

[Brother John]

I was at a half price book store this past weekend and found this book called - Bruce Tegner complete book of self defense it was published in 1963 and it is funny that alot of stuff in there I still see people do today but they call it there own way of doing things. I find his books to be a good read and alot of info. in regards to personal protection of that era. Anybody else ever read his stuff?

I used to have a collection of his works. They're coolish info. Mostly I had them for the novelty of it all. He presented things in such a clear & simple way. Nothing that'd OPEN your eyes or anything, but good solid fundamental.....and generic.....stuff.

Darn that Ex-wife for throwing THAT box in the trash!
I've collected a few of his works again.....still on the lookout for more.

Your Brother
John

 

[Babook]

I have some of his books and I learned only one thing from them.

YOU CAN'T LEARN MARTIAL ARTS FROM BOOKS

 

[zDom]

I have some of his books and I learned only one thing from them.

YOU CAN'T LEARN MARTIAL ARTS FROM BOOKS

Yea I learned the same thing

A couple of months ago I dug out an old Bruce book that I borrowed from my Dad when I was a kid in the hopes I could learn how to fight from it.

Was kind of neat to see it again from the perspective of having trained in martial arts for nearly 20 years

Then again, maybe I DID pick up a few things. I did once manage a throw on a feller before training martial arts ...

 

[Daniel Sullivan]

I could be mistaken here, but is that not the book that Daniel-san was reading in Karate Kid?

"You learn Karate from book?"

Don't know; I'll have to watch the movie again.

Anyhow, I do have some Bruce Tenger in my personal library.

Daniel

 

[kidswarrior]

I have one of Tegner's books still, too. It's a good reference for some of the basics--which I find I never have too many of (references, that is).

Far as being out of date (he's wearing bell bottoms! I miss the old days sometimes): Fairbairn and Applegate are pioneers, too, and I have several of their works. I get something out of all of them.

 

[jukado1]

If I remember correctly Danial is reading "karate, the empty hand" By H Nishamya and Richerd Brown.

 

[YoungMan]

Bruce Tegner, I think, learned just enough to write a book about basic techniques. Back in those days, when few Westerners knew karate, that made him an expert. I did read his books because at the time it's all that was available.
One of those guys that made you think "whatever happened to him?"