TAILIEUCHUNG - Mastering The Knife

I began my training in the martial arts over fourteen years ago in the little town of Alexandria, Louisiana. From the first I was interested in weapons, but I had great difficulty in finding any but a handful of people who knew anything about weapons. For many years I was only able to acquire little bits of weapons training from various teachers here and there. I tried to learn all that I could from books, but found that the number of books on weapons is almost as short in supply as the number of instructors with a knowledge of weapons. I also found that most of. | o Mastering the Knife Introduction I began my training in the martial arts over fourteen years ago in the little town of Alexandria Louisiana. From the first I was interested in weapons but I had great difficulty in finding any but a handful of people who knew anything about weapons. For many years I was only able to acquire little bits of weapons training from various teachers here and there. I tried to learn all that I could from books but found that the number of books on weapons is almost as short in supply as the number of instructors with a knowledge of weapons. I also found that most of the books about weapons were written by the same man and were incomplete in their depth for no books were available on the tonfa or the yawara and only a few were available on the staff the bo and the knife. There seemed to be numerous books on the nunchaku most poorly done and a few books on the sai but all in all the books available for the martial art student who was interested in weapons were few and far between. So I decided to write my own books. I spent the last four years doing research and training with weapons learning their use and applications. I was able to achieve a fourth degree black belt in weapons kubojitsu I had already written four other books and a movie script The Leopard so I was familiar with what was necessary to write a good book. I wanted my book to have techniques that a beginner could learn but that a teacher could also benefit from. I wanted to make the book easy to follow by avoiding any overuse of photos or confusing text. I wanted to include a basic practice Kata for each weapon as well as techniques for the weapon s offensive and defensive use. Finally I wanted to write a book that would serve as a manual on weapons for years to come-a book that a student or a teacher would be proud to own and would refer to whenever they had a question on weapons or wanted a new technique. I feel that I have accomplished all of these goals in this book The .

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• Basic Stance
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• Techniques for Using a Knife
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