The biggest Fight EVER!!!!!!

[Shaolin-Do]

Sorry, figured no one would look if I titled it "books".
:D

Anyone know of good books on... muay thai, silat, serak, kali, shotokan, isshinryu(sp?), ect..... Im building my library, Id like to have 1 good book from most every style soon enough... Great to see what other styles do...
:)

Sorry, kinda hurryin to get out the door.
:D

[shaolin kungfu]

Are you really interested in kali, or did you forget and type it twice?:p

[Vash]

Try "The Isshinryu System." It's at www.isshinryu.com
Seems to have the most widely accepted versions of kata.

At all costs, avoid the book "Okinawa's Complete Fighting System" by Michael Rosenbaum. Utter rubbish. At least on Isshinryu. Everything else presented is interesting.

Hope that helps.

[PHILBERT]

Karate-Do Nyumon: The Master Introductory Text (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/4770018916/qid=1060402055/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/102-1754944-4400919?v=glance&s=books)

Karate-Do Kyohan: The Master Text (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870111906/qid=1060402055/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-1754944-4400919?v=glance&s=books)

Just check out Amazon, read the reviews, glance in some books. The second one listed I own, got it half off at a bookstore and it is pretty cool.

[Shaolin-Do]

excellent....
thanks much.
:)

[shaolin kungfu]

Yang jwin ming(I think thats his name, I could be wrong though) has some good books out there on shaolin.

[chen zhen]

This is a good FMA book, I have it myself. (or maybe another volume in the series. Dunno. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804831815/qid=1060417083/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/002-1752155-2837610?v=glance&s=books)
This may be good. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804831459/qid=1060417083/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1752155-2837610?v=glance&s=books)
Also good. Have seen it before. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804831394/qid=1060417083/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-1752155-2837610?v=glance&s=books)

[Surferdude]

Get Secrets of Shotokan Karate my Sensei wrote it... Has a history of karate and 7 or 8 kata.:)

Also the Best Karate series

[Shaolin-Do]

"Yang jwin ming(I think thats his name, I could be wrong though) has some good books out there on shaolin."

Yang Jwing-Ming
:)
Excellent author.

I breezed through a book at B&N the other day called fillipino fighting art s, think Im gonna buy it this week some time.
:)

[yenhoi]

dont forget the fighters notebook from mma.tv, and khun chao has a unofficial mt manual on the internet in adobe format.

:eek:

[Shaolin-Do]

"khun chao has a unofficial mt manual on the internet in adobe format."

And Im assuming you have this adobe formatted mt manual?

:D

[chen zhen]

Some guesses:
Silat (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000063K5D/qid=1060444191/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-1752155-2837610)
Muay Thai (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1581603207/qid=1060444335/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1752155-2837610?v=glance&s=books)

And a book called "the weapons & figthing arts of Indonesia" by John Draeger. I have that book, and it's excellent, both in history of the styles, & pictures.

[YinYangDagger]

Hey Sd, get with me on the books you're looking for. I'm a collector and a bookseller part time. I have just about everything you could possibly imagine.

I mainly deal with rare and out-of-print martial arts books, but I have a lot of the newer titles as well.

[dezhen2001]

i like Bubishi by Patrick McCarthy for karate, i found it interesting... Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere is a good aiki book, as well as Dynamic Aikido and Total Aikido by Gozo Shioda... an amazing man.

Hope they help :)

dawood

[YinYangDagger]

I agree with DEZ, all great books. I have them all. :D

[PHILBERT]

Originally posted by yenhoi
dont forget the fighters notebook from mma.tv, and khun chao has a unofficial mt manual on the internet in adobe format.

:eek:

Where can this Muay Thai manual be found? Thanks.

[planetwc]

http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3044

[PHILBERT]

Thank you.