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There was only one Joe Lewis The Worlds Greatest Karate Fighter of All Time. This is a reprint that has long been out of print and dearly wanted needed and desired. Joe's name will most certainly go down in history and hopefully this book will help that...

There are many Karate Books published. Most of them describe "what to do" but not How to do it." This is the book to help you to understand Karate and how to improve in an innvated way. Sugiyama, Shojiro and his students. Chicago, Illinois Download Copy

Escrito en 1925, RENTANGOSHIN Karate Jitsu es el segundo lbro de Gichin Funakoshi, el fundador del karate japonés. Al igual que el primer libro, este también está cerca de cumplir los 100 años, sin embargo, en este libro...

The Original Martial Arts Encyclopedia is the most authoritative, one volume reference book ever written on the martial arts. With over 500 pages, it covers all aspects of the arts from the masters to the champions to the well-known practitioners, all...

This historical book provides a history of the greatest boxers in American history and their career highlights.

Robin L. Reilly discusses the origins and history of Karate and how it travelled from the East to the West and how it has grown in America today. Download version

This is a whose who of martial arts masters from around the world. The World Head Of Family Sokeship Council is a group of distinguished masters who have joined to gether to help propogate and preserve the history of World Martial Arts. The book has...

The fascinating true story of author Stan Schmidt's journey from the first day of karate training to achieving 3rd degree black belt in Japan. One of the all-time classic books on karate, written by one of the foremost instructors in the world. Spirit of...

The Art of Japanese Swordsmanship discusses the Japanese Sword, training, Famous Swordsmen, techniques, distance and timing, attacks and counters and more download version

The purpose of this book is to present the Art of Serrada Escrima as the authors' understood it and as they interpret it. Grandmaster Cables gave them the "key". This volume is the first step in taking that "key" and carry Serrada Escrima into the...

153 Pages chocked full of hand to hand combat techniques used in Ninja training including everything from Basic techniques to tactics and Intuition plus for those with no teacher how to train on your own to discover the way of the Ninja Japan's assassins...

The story and Legacy of Karate in Canada and two of its most important founders of Benny Allen and Bob Dalgleish both original students of the Founder Masami Tsuruoka of Toronto. Benny was one of the most powerful karate-ka, Canada ever had as he would...

Elmar T. Schmeisser, Doctor of Medical Physiology and Master Instructor certified by the American Teacher's Association of the Martial Arts, brings together his scientific background and more than 25 years of experience in karate for the benefit of...

The "empty hands" or the "flowery hands" was a science, an art, a philosophy. It was practiced by monks who were devout believers in nonviolence more than 1500 years ago. Today we call it "Karate" and in our young country we think of it as something new!...

An amazing book filled with 100's of rare photros collected by Emil Farkas over the last 60 years. You will be totally amazed with the quantity and clarity of each photo about where when and who is in the photo's. Emil Farkas is considered by most to be...

Written in 1952 by Giken Hotta, this book also features illustrations and a few photographs, Reading the author’s notes will transport you back at least seventy years. This is when Karate was starting to come into the America. Shihan Hotta...

The story and Legacy of Karate in Canada and two of its most important founders of Benny Allen and Bob Dalgleish both original students of the Founder Masami Tsuruoka of Toronto. Benny was one of the most powerful karate-ka, Canada ever had as he would...

Dim Mak or poison Hand Touch of Death is a terrific book written years ago and although only 56 pages and small in physical size it is one of those books that just must be good as it has stood the test of time. Filled with rare old photos of the masters...