Kung Fu Animal Power uses 18 different animals to teach classic virtues to build good character and healthy bodies. This beautifully illustrated, full color guide is packed with inspiration, valuable lessons, and detailed information. Each Kung Fu Animal also teaches a detailed body mechanic lesson and the drills to master it. These lessons build superior coordination, balance, and agility as well as balanced whole body strength and flexibility. Kung Fu Animal Power builds courage and real self defense skill with powerful moves from the best styles of Kung Fu. Master the Lessons of Kung Fu Animal Power and enter the Wu Lin Ren, or "Forest of Virtuous and Skilled Martial Artists".
Kung Fu Animal Power uses 18 different Animals to teach classic virtues, build strong athletic bodies with good posture and body mechanics, and learn self defense. This Fu Book (or Lucky Fun Book) is an activity book for students in the Kung Fu Animal Power program who are learning the Monkey. In this book, you will learn all about the lessons of the Monkey that you will study in class including: Monkey Virtue: Be Clever - Solve The Problem! Use your cleverness to solve problems. Learn how to come up with different ideas, and figure out which solution is the best. Monkey Body Mechanic Lesson: Quick Turns Old Saying in Martial Arts: "Turn Like a Monkey" Because Monkeys can stand on two legs, they can pivot quickly in place. Animals with four legs cannot do this. Instead, four legged animals must make a u-turn, or small circle, to turn around. This gives monkeys, and humans, a huge advantage against charging animals. Monkey Drills: "Monkey Turns" The Monkey teaches dynamic leaping skills. The Monkey Turns are ways to quickly turn to face someone attacking you from the side, or rear, and defend yourself at the same time. These are great self defense skills that can help you survive a surprise attack. Monkey Moves: Leaping Monkey Attack Monkeys are very dangerous and strong. The Monkey fighting moves are a set of 4 exercises. A powerful pull down, a strong palm strike, and a special quick turn, and a huge leaping attack with combined palm and knee strikes. These four exercises are combined into one exciting sequence that loops back and forth. This Fu Book has photos of all the Monkey Moves and Drills. Learn about the Monkey King and his special powers! You'll also find: Fun Facts About Real Monkeys Discussion Questions Great Games Awesome Pictures Drawings to Color Learn how to write "Monkey" in Chinese Learn how to write "Clever" in Chinese Stories and Chinese Idioms
Kung Fu Animal Power Fu Book Jaguar Kung Fu Animal Power uses 18 different Animals to teach classic virtues, build strong athletic bodies with good posture and body mechanics, and learn self defense. This Fu Book (or Lucky Fun Book) is a guide for Students in the Kung Fu Animal Power program who are learning the Jaguar. In this book you will learn all about the lessons of the Jaguar that you will learn in class including: Jaguar Virtue: Decisive - Seize the Moment Being Decisive defines leadership. When a decision is made things start to happen. Making decisions on time allows you to seize opportunities for success. Success often goes to the first person who decides to take action. Practice being decisive, build trust in yourself and gain self confidence. Jaguar Body Mechanic Lesson: Speed Speed allows you to strike first and to escape your opponent. Speed increases your movements power. If you move faster than your opponent they will be unable to complete their strategy, or to counter your strategy. Train your mental speed and your physical speed. Jaguar Drills: Stalking Steps, Jaguar Stance The Jaguar is a master at stalking silently thru the jungle. These drills build your ability to stalk and circle your opponent. Jaguar Moves: Jaguar Moves include the Jaguar Fist, fast Leaping Jaguar Attack, and fierce Leopard's Paw! You'll also find: Fun games Pictures to admire Drawings to color Learn how to Write Jaguar in Chinese learn How to Write Decisive in Chinese A folk Story from Chinese History "The Jaguar Leaves Its Pelt" Scott Jensen is the creator of Kung Fu Animal Power, Head Instructor of 10,000 Victories Kung Fu, President of the Chinese Cultural, Healing and Martial Arts Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and an International Gold Medalist.
Kung Fu Animal Power uses 18 different Animals to teach classic virtues, build strong athletic bodies with good posture and body mechanics, and learn self defense. This Fu (or Lucky Fun Book) is a guide for students in the Kung Fu Animal Power program who are learning the Falcon. In this book you will learn all about the lessons of the Falcon that you will study in class including:Falcon Virtue: Focus - Avoid Distractions and See the Details!Learning how to focus your mind is one of the most important lessons in life. When you learn to avoid distractions, and focus, you can do amazing things!Falcon Body Mechanic Lesson: Sink Your ElbowThe Falcon teaches how to sink your elbow to protect it. Sinking your elbow also helps you the deliver the power of your whole body including your waist, hips, and legs into your hands. Learning how to use the power of your entire body makes all of your actions far stronger.Falcon Drills: Core Strength (Learn The Secret Kung Fu Way!) Learn how to do 3 different types of core strength exercises with proper technique and breathing. Build your core strength and power quickly!Falcon Moves: Falcon ElbowsThe Falcon moves all use the elbow to strike with for self defense. The Elbow is a powerful short range strike that use the core strength of the body. These moves are perfect if you are much smaller than the other person.This Fu Book has photos of all the Falcon Moves and Drills.You'll also find:- Fun Facts About Real Falcons and Falconry- Discussion Questions- Great Games- Drawings to Color- Learn how to Write Falcon in Chinese- Learn How to Write "Focus" in Chinese- Falcon Story "Saving Willow Whip"- Falcon Idiom and Folk Story "Eye of the Hawk"
"Engaging and knowledgeable…brings magical light and clarity to veiled martial arts history. In a cocoon shell, a man 'tis not a mantis til Fusco's faithful rendering of true life hero Wong Long bugs the Shaolin elders into accepting the teachings and virtues of the world's most dynamic insect…the praying mantis.--Dr. Craig D. Reid, Martial Arts Historian"
The Power of Shaolin Kung Fu offers readers a comprehensive course in the fundamental movements that have been practiced and perfected by warrior monks for centuries. It includes instruction in the powerful striking techniques that so often lead to decisive victory in today's mixed martial arts bouts. The book includes 300 color photographs along with detailed textual instructions and training tips. Shaolin Kung Fu is an indispensable part of every martial artist's repertoire--a vital means to improve your movement, motion, and balance skills and the best way for a mixed martial arts fighter to improve and perfect striking skills. This informative kung fu book also shares the moral and ethical philosophies that underlie the Jow Ga system. Shaolin Jow Ga Kung Fu is a combination of southern and northern Shaolin techniques--making it by far the most effective in terms of combining blinding speed with devastatingly powerful strikes.
Discover your Animal archetype to transform your martial arts practice and improve your physical, emotional, and sexual health A cognitive psychologist and respected martial art instructor brings to life the Animals of Ch'ien-lung, and how to live the martial art philosophy--on and off the mat! This martial art belongs to everyone, not just for self-defense but as a force for healing. Keen on detail, big in scope, Unleash the Dragon Within shows how to tap into the Cat and Snake aspects of your mind and body. When you combine the movement, breath and meditation of a Cat with a Snake you create the Dragon, bringing all you are to your athletic performance, spiritual practices and even your sexual relationships.
When Po's panda dad, Li Shan, invites him to visit the secret Panda Village, he learns the true meaning of family and friendship along the way. Fans of the film will love this funny and touching retelling of the movie.
Wing Chun is the most popular form of Chinese Kung Fu in the world today, with over four million practitioners. The art as it is presently understood has been handed down from teacher to student for more than three hundred years. Until now, no one has ever stepped back and taken a critical look at why this art’s techniques are presented and performed the way they are. This book, by Wing Chun master Danny Xuan and martial-arts authority John Little, is the first to decipher these techniques that until now have been encrypted within this art. Xuan and Little reveal how Wing Chun was designed holistically, based on the laws of physics, human nature, and biomechanics. It was also designed with economy, efficiency, and productivity in mind. Unlike other martial arts, Wing Chun doesn’t focus on making a person larger, more rugged, acrobatic or animal-like; rather, it focuses on making optimal use of one’s own bodily structure and power potential by applying the sciences of biomechanics and physics. Thus, it is possible for males and females of all ages and sizes to excel in this art. The Tao of Wing Chun provides a readable, authoritative means of cultivating personal protection skills, enhanced flexibility, improved coordination, greater stamina, and physical and mental fitness while simultaneously cultivating humility, focus, determination, self-confidence, character, camaraderie, and deep inner strength. Foremost, this book offers the reader the means by which to apply Wing Chun principles in daily life. Enhanced by forty-eight full-color illustrations, The Tao of Wing Chun will fascinate, educate, and entertain a wide range of readers—from beginner to master.
Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by following the rules. She avoids the Principal. She doesn't complain. She's loyal to her MLK 'family'. And, like 99.5% of the student body, she knows one form or another of martial arts. When Jen's world-famous Kung-Fu champion of a cousin Jimmy Chang turns up, everyone wants a piece of him - including Ridley, resident drug lord and leader of the school's most violent gang. They all want to see the legendary martial-arts master defend himself during the school's merciless initiation ritual. Except that Jimmy's made a promise never to fight again - a promise that soon leads to the murder of Jen's brother and a bloody final battle that engulfs the entire school. Fast-paced, gritty and addictive, Kung Fu by Ryan Gattis is an extreme journey into high-school violence and the American Dream that feeds it.
