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This is a listing of documents that may be of interest. Some are located on other sites, and some are on our server.

Martial Arts FAQ links:

JAPANESE SWORD ARTS FAQ VERSION 2.9 August 15, 2001

Aikido FAQ

Kenpo FAQ

THE FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS FAQ

KOREAN MARTIAL ARTS FAQ

Rec.MartialArts FAQs (Maintained by Matthew Weigel)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
These are updated regularly. Check here for the latest versions

Martial Arts Newbie Guide
Updated regularly - Check here for latest version.


Fitness FAQS:

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
The Abdominal Training FAQ
Weightlifting
Misc.Fitness.Weights Pointer to FAQs and Resources
Body-Building
Stretching and Flexibility
The Backrubs FAQ See also: Intro 1 2 3 4 5
SportsMed Web
QuackWatch - Your Guide to Quackery, Health Fraud, and Intelligent Decisions


Healing and Meditation:

Meditation
Transcendental Meditation
Medicinal Herbs :
From Henriette's Herbal Homepage Most current version is found Here
Older Archived versions are here : Culinary herbFAQ | Medicinal herbFAQ

Pressure Point Reference Guide
Even though MartialTalk.com has posted the information about pressure points, we want to make sure everyone knows that if they do attempt to manipulate them they do so at their own risk. It is suggested that the Pressure Point information found on MartialTalk.com be only used for reference material, and that you seek out a qualified instructor to learn this material from. Please use this material responsibly


Animals in Martial Arts:

1. Dragon / Lung
2. Unicorn / K'i-lin / Kirin


Fencing FAQs
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3


Running
rec.running Beginners' FAQ Part 1 of 2
Part 2 of 2


Books

A Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi :
http://www.samurai.com/5rings
http://www.hut.fi/~renko/gorinnosho.html


Sun Tzu's The Art of War :
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4884/
http://web.mit.edu/dcltdw/.html/AOW/toc.html
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/suntzu.htm


Tao Te Ching :
http://www.nauticom.net/www/asti/dao_jing.htm



Other Books
George Silver's Paradoxes of Defense
 
I will be periodically updating this list. If you find a broken link, or have information you think we should include, please let us know.

Thank you.
 
Human Body

This website is excellent, it has animations, skeletal, muscle, nervous, etc. pictures
 
I have several books on both Modern Arnis and Karate sparring up on my website. The Modern Arnis books are:

De-fanging The Snake: A Guide To Modern Arnis Disarms
Advanced Modern Arnis: A Road To Mastery

The Karate books are:
American Freestyle Karate: A Guide To Sparring
Tactics And Strategies

You can see images of the covers, reviews and ordering information by going to the link below.

Yours,
Dan Anderson

Yours,
Dan Anderson
 
www.judoinfo.com

This is the most comprehensive judo website I've ever witnessed. It pact with a bunch of text and video info, along with animated graphics.
 
I'm new to MartialTalk. Great website!

It appears that the first Kenpo FAQ no longer exists. It just takes you to the main web hosting site.

Keep up the good work!

Dana
 
Dear Martial Artists,
May I introduce myself.
I am a Grand Master of Myanmar Thaing.
My late masters are U Pye Thein and U Chit Than.
Their names and photos are in the book " Asian Fighting Arts "
I am now acting as a Vice President of Myanmar Thaing Federation in Myanmar.I am a lawyer by profession.
My email is [email protected]
Wish you all masters.
Best regards,
U Mya Thein
 
http://www.martinvidic.com/martinvidic_en_2006/flash_mavi

This is one of my fovourites.
Well... Not very good if you are interestid in traditional stuff, but this site features very high quality instructions for competetive wushu and gymnastics.

Some instructions for weight lifting and stretching, plus nutrition calculators.

As i said, couldnt find that much triditional stuff, but u can chick it out urself. Oh... And the cool thing about it is, that all the instructions are flash animated. looks fine.... lol

 
Hello!
Well, since my book, "The Making Of A Butterfly" was just recently published, I'd like to put in a shameless plug for it...:) It's a collection of stories involving my teacher (who passed away in 1971), my classmates, and me - with a lesson/concept included in each one.

Just my two yuan-
 
Hello, my regarding!People, who can help me to get the book "Let every breath...". In Ukraine it's a problem.
I need this book. I tried to do some exercises from SISTEMA (that I could find in INTERNET)
and they are realy work! May be we could make some change? I have fotos from book about russian
style (non contact) by Scogorev, unfortunately in russian. Could you make foto copy of the "Let every breath..."
(all pages) and send me on my e-mail: [email protected]. If you interesting in russian styles
I can send more books about it(just in russian). May be some of you study russian, it would be
a great help. Sorry for my English.:0)))
Igor.
 
Add to the collection:
On the subject of fighting with the Rapier, facsimile edition of Luis Pacheco de Narvaez (pub. AD 1600) "Llave y gobierno de la destreza. De una filosofia de las armas" ("Key and management of The Skill [swordfighting]. A philosophy of arms")
Unfortunately, have not found this in English.
 
does anyone have info on how to gain strength without gaining mass? I need to keep light and strong.
 
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