Book Review: Living the Martial Way

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Living the Martial Way

By Forest E. Morgan, Maj USAF

What I found interesting was that the author studied taekwondo with a second degree black belt. Then started over in Jujutsu. Interesting that he studied two different styles.

Introduction
Ch1: The Warrior Mind-Set
Ch2: Your Martial Destiny
Ch3: Train as Warriors Train
Ch4: The Warriors Way of Strategy
Ch5: The Warriors Spell Book
Part Two The way of Honor
Ch6: The Foundations of Honor
Ch7: Honor in Action
Ch8: Revenge & Suicide Perversions of Honor
Pt3: Warrior Fitness
Ch9: Warrior Fitness
Ch10: Religion & Mysticism
Ch11: Warrior Stand Along
Ch12: Master & The Martial Way

What I liked about the book is it really is a book on how to be warrior. It cuts through the hype and put it on the line. So often people think of movie stars as warrior.

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Book Reivew: Comprehensive Application of Shaolin Chin Na

Comprehensive Applications of Shaolin Chin na

Dr. Yan Jwing - Ming

Ch1: General Concepts
Ch2: Qin Na Against Barehand Attacks
Ch3: Qin Na Against Blocking
Ch4: Qin Na Against Kicking
Ch5: Qin Na Against knife Attacks
Ch6: Qin Na Against Grabbing
Ch7: Offensive Qin Na Techniques
Ch8: Conclusion

This isn't a book I would suggest to learn Chin from. There are other books you are supposted to read before hand but well I didnt' have those around. After I read it, I talked with my Martial Arts teacher, and about a knife technique I found interesting. He said if the hand slipped you got to go into something else. Also some of the history of the art was interesting.

I really liked the beginning of the book where it talked about the human body. There was alot of interesting applications in this book. Some of which I might have a greater appreciation for after I get my black belt.

Often times I found the defenses repetitive such as using the same defense multiple times, perhaps with a different application. But then again it might be that way because of different way of doing it. I particularly like the Chin Na against Kicking, as there is alot of kickers out there.

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Living the Martial Way: One intersting trick I learned is to watch others body movement, and that would help you figure out what they would do next.

Shaolin Chin Na: What I like about it is your controlling them all the way down. It's not one technique your doing. Where are several picture per defense so it's kind of neat to see the flow.