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You're about to discover the incredibly inspirational story of UFC superstar Georges St-Pierre. If you're reading this, then you must be a GSP fan, like so many others. As a fan, you must wonder how this man is so talented and want to know more about him. Georges is considered one of the greatest MMA fighters in the world, and it's been an honor to be able to watch him fight throughout his career. This book will reveal to you much about Georges' story and the many accomplishments throughout his career.

Guy Windsor’s historical martial arts training manuals are legendary. His first was published in 2004, and he’s been producing them ever since. They generate about half his income. So he is expert in writing, publishing, and marketing books for historical martial artists, and in this book he’ll teach you how to do it. The goal of training manuals is to teach skills.

In Living, Healing and Tae Kwon Do, Laura Di Franco invites you to join her on her journey to empowerment as she and her son train together and learn the secrets to living fiercely alive. You may have struggled with the fear of not being good enough. You’ll see how Laura conquered that fear by being willing to confront those feelings in her home, at her physical therapy clinic, and in the dojang.

Enslaved teen martial artist Bensin is just one victory away from freedom—or one mistake away from disaster. But when a bitter rival frames him for a crime he didn’t commit, his fate is sealed with ruthless efficiency: a lifetime as a gladiator, forced to fight and bleed to entertain a bloodthirsty audience. Every day pushes Bensin to his limits as he struggles to survive in an environment designed to break him. The brutal system strips men of their identity, but Bensin refuses to be just another pawn in its deadly game. Defiance, however, comes at a high price.

A comprehensive guide on many different aspects of martial arts pedagogy. Topics include: teaching children with learning disabilities, anatomy and common injuries, leadership skills, and hundreds of specific drills.

From ancient times to the modern era, martial arts has consistently evolved over the centuries and continues to evolve and thrive today. At the turn of the 20th century, martial arts saw perhaps its greatest evolution as many Japanese and Okinawan martial arts masters of the time no longer looked at martial arts as a mere tool of warfare, but instead as systems that have immeasurable mental and physical health benefits.

Roxy uncovers her survival instincts during a murder incident and reveals her self-defense reaction techniques while she is held at gunpoint. In addition to this crime genre story, Roxy also shares intelligent awareness self-defense tricks. She delivers quick and easy ways to survive from a murderer’s attack. A deep first-person perspective during the captivating murder crime scene in Koreatown, Los Angeles allows the reader to dwell deep in a victim’s mind. This murder self-defense book will expand the importance of a self-awareness mindset.

The main idea of my Tai Chi audiobook is to stimulate the imagination of the listener so they can be creative and use the basic concepts and techniques in a way that they begin to create their own unique Tai Chi energy and enjoy the balance and harmony. Throughout the entire world, it is highly regarded as the leading exercise to reduce stress and give longevity of a healthy life for the young and old. Yes, Tai Chi is the balance of nature elements in harmony with your mind and body.

Whether you are a martial arts history aficionado or someone wanting a simple and understandable history — THE FOUNDING OF JUJUTSU & JUDO IN AMERICA is for you! This book seeks to provide you an easily accessible, yet highly informative, account of how the Japanese fighting art made its way to the United States and why it has become a permanent part of the American cultural mosaic.

Looking to learn about how you can use martial arts for self defense or for sport? This bundle has three audiobooks of some of the most popular forms of martial arts: Karate, Ju-Jitsu, and Taekwondo.

My childhood had been cool enough. Horses and four-wheelers to ride, farmland to explore, good friends. The one blemish: a school bus bully. A year older and always bigger, this guy we'll call "Larry" started picking on me around kindergarten - flipping my ear, frogging my leg, reminding me how much of a wimp I was - and I let him get away with it. With literally hundreds of chances (every miserable ride to and from school), I never fought back. And while I’d done a stint in the military, earned a fancy degree, and started a family, I was always haunted by the lingering shame.

Like the legendary Hellenic hero Prometheus, George Dillman is both admired and criticized for sharing once arcane knowledge with the wider world. His pioneering work in the field of pressure point fighting has had made a profound and lasting impression on the landscape of the martial arts. By any standard, Dillman is a martial giant. Here, then, for the first time anywhere, is his story, told in the words of the man himself, and those of his students, and voiced by one of his senior instructors...

This book is a collection of intimate and sometimes shocking conversations about success. Each story will inspire, enlighten, and entertain you. In Success, not only did I seek to discover what motivates high achievers, but I also dug for the philosophies that lead to success. During these interviews, I asked uncomfortable questions that led to answers that often surprised even the athletes being interviewed, because it is the subconscious mind that drives most ambitious people to achieve.

Being a champion is a choice. Bullies, self-doubt, failure, abuse, humiliation and setbacks plagued his life. Through a desire to keep pushing forward and the resilience of never quitting, MMA pioneer and Jiu Jitsu World Champion Chad George found a way to transform his self-destructive thinking to believing he can accomplish anything. In "A Champion's Mindset" he shares his journey of building the fighter within and how we all have to FIGHT for what we want in life.

For years, I was a violent sociopath as a direct result of my childhood and then experiences as a soldier. My adventures in the methamphetamine culture certainly exacerbated that. I am not proud of this. I'm just saying what it is; that being said, this book will articulate that experience in a series of amusing anecdotes and thoughts that explain the important lessons that I learned during that time.

Bushido significa muchas cosas, pero todas pueden resumirse en una: el alma de Japón. Este antiguo código guerrero japonés supone un tratado con todos los preceptos interiorizados por el pueblo japonés desde tiempos inmemoriales, y supone una radiografía pormenorizada de su identidad, su historia y su razón de ser.

"Le Gorin No Sho" est le l'ouvrage de référence pour les samourais et les arts martiaux. Son titre se traduit en français par "le traité des cinq roues".

By the time you finish listening to this audiobook, you will have a complete self-defense game plan in place, and you will know more about how to protect yourself than most people out there - even the ones who train in self-defense already! This audiobook is based on a lifetime's experience from martial arts/self-defense training and real-world experience from the street and working doors as a bouncer.

Da quando a sette anni è salita per la prima volta sul tatami, Sara Cardin non ha mai smesso di combattere. Dalle prime gare a livello locale, quando si impone all'attenzione degli allenatori per il suo talento, alle sfide più importanti, oggi Sara Cardin vanta 20 titoli italiani, 7 Assoluti, svariate medaglie d'oro ai Campionati Europei e alle Premier League, e soprattutto il podio più importante della sua vita, nel 2014: Campionessa del mondo di karate. Oltre alle battaglie sul campo, questo audiolibro avvincente, che è più di una biografia.

"El libro de los cinco anillos" es la obra capital del pensamiento marcial japonés. Concebida inicialmente como manual de entrenamiento de los discpículos de la escuela del autor, se ha acabado convirtiendo en la base de toda la filosofía del samurai. Musashi revela en ella los secretos del Camino del Guerrero, la disciplina y la filosofía detrás de su modo de vida. Una obra tan influyente como inmortal.