Publications

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$3.99 (Kindle), $9.99 (Paperback)

Basic Body Mechanics for Martial Artists provides a new approach for helping remedial martial arts based on a simple insight: techniques are not fundamentals. Organizational patterns of the body are. By improving a student’s ability to organize the body for movement, martial artists can progress with significantly less potential for strain and injury.

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$14.83 (Paperback)
The Weightless Ribbon provides a new, simple approach to learning how to fall and roll safely: by learning where you get support from the ground, you can learn to move to the ground, on it, over it, and away from it, in any direction that you want. Russ Mitchell has used this method to teach rolling and fall safety to students aged 8-80. While it’s particularly useful for Judo and Jiu-jutsu players, anybody who would like to have a healthier back, more-refined balance, greater ease in movement, and most especially, the freedom which comes from no longer being afraid to fall, will find this book to be immensely useful.
Available Formats: Paperback

Driving With Ease Nov 29, 2019
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$4.99 (Kindle), $15.00 (Paperback)

Love your life, but hate your commute? Like meeting people, but hate driving to where they are? Would you like to get out of your car feeling looser and more relaxed than when you got into it? By helping you deepen your understanding of how you organize your body, this book will show you how you can turn a daily chore most people dread into something you can look forward to that leaves you feeling refreshed and “ready to do the thing.”

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$25.00 (Paperback)
Beginning in the Meiji Restoration, Japan entered a period of intense and dynamic martial arts development, allowing, for the first time in centuries for Japanese citizens other than the Samurai class to receive combat training. This training did not happen in isolation, but involved multiple military embassies from France, which helped to train the Imperial Japanese Army from a fledgling organization scarcely capable of defending its own borders, into a force to be reckoned with on the global stage. The Japanese did not passively receive French instruction, but adapted it to their own combat theories, creating methods which became less and less “westernized” during the period from the Meiji Restoration until World War I. This book contains translations from three manuals, as well as notes and appendices to help the reader appreciate these dynamic and sophisticated fencing methods and the context in which they emerged.
Available Formats: Paperback

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$4.99 (Kindle), $20.00 (Paperback)
This is a heavily-illustrated, step-by-step guide for how to fence — and how to teach! — Hungarian sabre fencing, as well as how to use the “fokos,” or long-handled axe traditional to Hungary and East-Central Europe. It covers everything from basic stance work and tactics to complete synoptic tables and how to troubleshoot students who are having difficulty with the material. The manual also provides translated comparative material in order to demonstrate how the lineage the author learned is — and is not — like other methods of fencing taught in Hungary and at the Wiener-Neustadt cadet school in the mid-to-late 19th century up through World War One.
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$20.00 (Paperback)
Where did Italo-Hungarian sabre fencing come from? It’s not JUST Barbasetti…The Hungarians dominated Olympic sabre fencing for the majority of the 20th century. It is well-known that Radaelli’s northern-Italian lineage became dominant in Austro-Hungarian fencing, under the immensely skilled tutelage of Barbasetti (and later, the Santellis). But little has been said about the Hungarian fencing-masters themselves and how they adapted the Radaellian sabre lineage to fit their own ideas. For the first time, the sabre fencing manual of Károly Leszák, primary sabre instructor at the prestigious Ludovica Military Academy, is made available in English. A must-read for historical fencers wishing to understand the evolution of Italo-Hungarian fencing, and for modern Olympic fencers curious where their methods come from.
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$25.00 (Paperback)
 The Birth of Italo-Hungarian Fencing!
Gusztáv Arlow’s work represents perhaps the point where the Hungarian public sees a well-known, well-established, and well-respected fencer come forward to discuss the merits of the “Italian,” that is to say, Radaellian, fencing method, while simultaneously discussing its integration with elements of Hungarian sabre fencing. Arlow, previously an adherent to the so-called “High Tierce” system, lays out the case for “Italian” fencing in this translated manual, which contains extensive commentary on the art of fencing. A must-have for historical fencers and those interested in the birth of the modern Italo-Hungarian school.
Available Formats: Paperback

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$15.00 (Paperback)
There are lots of ways to learn to sword-fight.

But what if you’re not a martial-artist or fencer, and need to fake it? What if you’re cosplaying, working the RenFaire, or performing shows where you have to portray people who are really good with swords, and don’t have years and years to get good at fencing? This book will teach you the little tricks that every good sword-fighter knows (and most non-sword-fighters don’t!), so that when you get on stage or in film, you can “sell it” and portray a character who really knows what they’re doing with a sword. Whether you’re one person auditioning for an action role or a group doing action choreography for your next show, this book will teach you what you need to know to look amazing on stage.
Available Formats: Paperback