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Author : Hideharu Onuma
Release : 1993
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 345/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Kyudo by : Hideharu Onuma
Download or read book Kyudo written by Hideharu Onuma. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the spiritual and technical practice of this graceful martialrt, by 15th-generation master Hideharu Onuma, includes illustrations andare photographs.
Author : Jesse C. Newman
Release : 2015-12-09
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 598/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis History of Kyudo and Iaido in Early Japan by : Jesse C. Newman
Download or read book History of Kyudo and Iaido in Early Japan written by Jesse C. Newman. This book was released on 2015-12-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comic books that came out in the 1920s to get Americans to read more comprised of many action- and super heroes, such as Batman Superman, and Wonder Woman. Since 1968 Bruce Lee playing Kato and the Green Hornet, in 1973 the movie, Enter the Dragon will introduce Asian martial arts to the USA and the world. This book will show the superhuman feats of the Japanese archers psychologically and physically, and the records they achieved, in my opinion. These unsung people would be heroes today if more readers knew of these records that the Japanese have in their history. The impact of the mental and physical is so extreme that this information hopefully will garner THE WOW FACTOR!
Author : William Acker
Release : 2011-06-07
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 321/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Kyudo The Japanese Art of Archery by : William Acker
Download or read book Kyudo The Japanese Art of Archery written by William Acker. This book was released on 2011-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the ancient art of Japanese archery or Kyudo with this illustrated guide. The Japanese Art of Archery, is deeply rooted in tradition. It not only continues to enjoy widespread popularity in Japan, but is also attracting the interest of more and more foreigners, in much the same manner as Japan's other distinctive sports, such as judo, sumo, kendo, and karate. Kyudo: The Japanese Art of Archery offers a concise description of kyudo by an ardent American enthusiast, describing the aims, the techniques, and the philosophic basis of its ceremonial aspect, which is strongly influenced by Zen philosophy. Carefully illustrated, this is a practical text, giving all of the necessary fundamentals. The author clearly describes the basic difference between American and Japanese archery. He points out the superior neatness and schematic beauty of the Oriental full draw, in which the chest is fully extended and the shoulders are thrust as far apart as possible, inasmuch as the string is drawn to a point well back, as was done in the old English archery of Roger Ascham’s time.
Author : Dan DeProspero
Release : 1996
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Illuminated Spirit by : Dan DeProspero
Download or read book Illuminated Spirit written by Dan DeProspero. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raúl Sánchez García
Release : 2014-12-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 468/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fighting Scholars by : Raúl Sánchez García
Download or read book Fighting Scholars written by Raúl Sánchez García. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Fighting Scholars’ offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book’s main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to access different social dimensions, such as emotion, violence, pain, gender, ethnicity and religion. In order to explore these dimensions, the concept of ‘habitus’ is presented prominently as an epistemic remedy for the academic distant gaze of the effaced academic body. The book’s most innovative features are its empirical focus and theoretical orientation. While ethnographic research is a widespread and popular approach within the social sciences, combat sports and martial arts have yet to be sufficiently interrogated from an ethnographic standpoint. The different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant’s ‘Body and Soul’: the construction of a ‘carnal sociology’ that constitutes an exploration of the social world ‘from’ the body.
