Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Friday, 11 December 2009

Book review: The Way of the Warrior

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This is a hardback, colourful almanac of descriptions of the world's martial arts but is it any good? There are many entries in the book...
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Saturday, 17 October 2009

New books

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Found a book on fencing in the library and bought another on Medieval Combat. Unfortunately the fencing book I borrowed 'blind' as I...
Thursday, 4 June 2009

Four Shades of Black

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I'm reading it now and LOVING it! It's beautifully laid out and makes a lot of sense, written by a guy with plenty of experience. Ju...
Sunday, 26 April 2009

An introduction to Japanese armour and swords

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I spent the day in town looking for martial arts books and came away with an armful! I'll post a review when I've finished them but ...
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Sunday, 12 April 2009

Zen in the Art of Archery

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I finished reading Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel soon after I started reading it. Not because it's rubbish but because it...
Saturday, 20 December 2008

Autumn Lightning - The Education of an American Samurai by Dave Lowry. A Book Review.

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Autumn lightning details not only Dave Lowry's apprenticeship and learning process with the Japanese sword but also the lineage of the s...
Monday, 3 November 2008

Book reviews

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Traditions: Essays on the Japanese Martial Arts and Ways (Tuttle Martial Arts), I'm a big fan of the Dave Lowry series of books which gi...