Name the last three books you have read...

No problem - I AM a nerd, after all!

 

-The Heart of Karate-Do, by Shigeru Egami

-Karate-Do, by Tatsuo Suzuki

-Keys to the Inner Universe, by Bill Pearl

 

What's the diff between Karate-Do and plain old Karate?

 

Mr. Sir Nose, Karate-Do and what is called in the West as "Karate" are the same. Karate-Do is the old traditional name of Karate as introduced to Japan by the Master Gichin Funakoshi (The father of Modern Karate). Karate-Do or the "empty hand way" was a system of techniques introduced to Japan in the 1920's at Weseda University and the Ministry of Education in Japan. It would morph into hundreds of styles since that time (i.e Shotokan, Shito Ryu, Go Ju Ryu etc....) It all started with one man who was a school teacher from Okinawa, Master Gichin Funakoshi. In the west the do was dropped from Karate-do and the principle philosophy of developing the mind and body as one.

 

Thanks

 

You are welcome Sir.

 

cracking the GRE
cliff notes algebra 1 and 2
7 habits of highly effective people
the art of war
the art of macking

 

You just failed in ^. You were asked to name 'the last three books you read'.

 

Some excellent books for martial arts instructors:

-"Black Belt Parenting" by Soloman Brenner

-"The Bully, The Bullied, and the Bystander" by Barbara Coloroso

-"5,000 Years of Korean Martial Arts: The Heritage of the Hermit Kingdom Warriors" by R. Barry Harmon

 

What style do you study?

 

Hello Andrae09. The style I study is Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do, an Okinawan martial art. This is my primary art that I study. I also study a secondary martial art called Tang Soo Do, a korean kicking art. Kick-boxing and Gracie Ju Jitsu are arts of interest to me as well.

 

I study Oyama Karate and Judo
I've always wanted to study hapkido another korean form

Very nice though. How long have you studied

 

Andrae09, I have a great deal of respect for the Late Masutatsu Oyama of your system Kyokushin. I have tons of reading material on him. I'm a voracious reader of anything martial arts be it history, philosophy,psychology, physiology and anatomy, etc...... Hapkido is a very interesting martial art. It is extremely dangerous in joint locks and breaks. I have friends who have a school here under the Late Kwang Sik Myung who passed away last year. He was the direct successor from Yong Sul Choi the founder of modern Hapkido. Also as information for you get Oyama's excellent book, "The Kyokushin Way: Mas Oyama's Karate Philosophy, by Masutatsu Oyama. It's a hard to find book and it's expensive if you find it. I wish i could talk more with you on my passion, but I do not want to re-direct this thread. Keep practicing my friend. Osu

 

The Face Reader: Discover Anyone's Personality Through the Chinese Art of Mien Shiang by Patrician McCarthy

Karma Cards by Monte Farber

The Astrology Book: The Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences by James R. Lewis

 

What did you think of this one Britty? I'm a fan of Linda Goodman's astrology books, she's just scary accurate, but I haven't read many other authors.

 

I have Linda Goodman's Love Signs book, I like it, I think I might have had another one of her books before too but I don't remember the title, I just remember it was a little blue paperback. Anyhoo, the James R Lewis one is a good reference book. It's like almost 3 inches thick and it talks about everything and anything in the universe that has any connection to astrology and astronomy too. It's an encyclopedia, heh. Everything is in alphabetical order. It talks about all the different kinds of astrology, planets, constellations, astroids etc etc. It's like a "jack of all trades" astrology book, but "master of none" because it only gives brief delineations of everything, but things I've never heard of or knew about before and I've been reading/studying astrology pretty much since I was a 10 year old child. But it also gives a lot of suggested reading and websites and people to contact and software programs and astrology schools and federations and so much more. It's definitely worth a look, I'd say.

 

Thanks, I'll have to pick up a copy.

 

Welcome

 

"Chinese Machiavelli" by Dennis and Ching Ping

"The Arab Mind" by Raphael Patai

"Tao of Jeet Kune Do" by Bruce Lee

 

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

The Bourne Objective By Eric Van Lustbader

The Art of War by SunTzu