Books and Writings for Skill Development

[Physic]

Someone else mentioned this and I have been wanting to bring this up for a while. Post all of your books, articles, and writings that will progress us as warriors. If you feel it has any merit to development feel free to post it.

he 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The Tao of Jeet Kun Do by Brue Lee.
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
Body Mind Mastery: Creating Success in Sport and Life (Millman, Dan)
Never Gymless by Ross Enamait
The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Everyday Enlightenment by Dan Millman

An interesting article on muscle memory.
http://www.hockscqc.com/articles/howmanyreps/?index.htm

Article on ambidexterity
http://traevoli.com/ambidex.php

Flow in Sports: The keys to optimal experiences and performances
by Susan A. Jackson (Author), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere

The Book of Martial Power
by Steven J. Pearlman (Author)

Almost all books by Loren Christensen

Books about Col. John Boyd, the "Boyd Cycle," or "OODA Loop" (sadly, Col. Boyd delivered almost all of his thought orally and didn't write much down, so we're dependent on secondary sources, sort of like Socrates and Epicurus)

"Zen in the Art of Swordsmanship" by D.T. Suzuki

The T'ai Chi Classics

The Prophet Khalil Gibran
Bruce Lee's Fighting Method Vol 2

The I33 Manuscript Companion

The Longsword of Johannes Liechtenauer, Part I
Hans Heim, Alex Kiermeyer, The Ochs.

Sigmund Ringeck's Knightly Art of the Longsword

http://www.arsgladii.com/resources.php

Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard

[bo1]

7 habit of effective people, not entirely focused on fighting, but great tool none the less.

[Loptr]

My suggestions for increasing combat skillz:

The Tao of Jeet Kun Do by Brue Lee.

At one point in his life he broke his back. During the 6 mo. convalesance he did a brain dump in short paragraphs. After his death his wife and son sorted through all of these and grouped them by category and printed the book.
There is a ton of relevant material especially the last half of the book.

Loptr

[Soo Ma Tai]

The Tao of Jeet Kun Do by Brue Lee.
Loptr

QFT! great book, awesome concepts for combat of any type.

[Physic]

Three books that have changed my life.

Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman


Body Mind Mastery: Creating Success in Sport and Life (Millman, Dan)


Never Gymless by Ross Enamait



Take a look. Its in a book. A reading rainbow.

[Bhakdar]

Aww shucks-- Good hits, Physic. I am also a Dan Millman fan. If you liked Peaceful Warrior and dig the Socrates character check out "The Journeys of Socrates". Whether historical fiction or largely true, its the super-nuts history behind his mentor.

Some classic texts of the East:

The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Everyday Enlightenment by Dan Millman... Has a brief illustrated section on daily care for the body with what he calls The Peaceful Warrior Workout. It's a series of 15 streches/exercises that keep a person limber and their energy channels open. An excellent morning wake-up or pre-fight warm-up.

[Devaryn]

Tao of Jeet Kune Do, AND The Book of Five Rings just arrived today via Amazon...thanks to this thread. I'm sure I'll love them both.

[Physic]

An interesting article on muscle memory.

http://www.hockscqc.com/articles/howmanyreps/?index.htm

[Derian]

Let's get some more in here and I'll sticky it.

[Soo Ma Tai]

Found here is excellent for solo training and inspiration.

[Loptr]

Found here is excellent for solo training and inspiration.

Company filter * blocks site. Can you give another option?

L

[Soo Ma Tai]

The book is like $9.95, is still in print, you should be able to get it through just about any book sales site like amazon, or barnes and noble, etc.

[Loptr]

Perhaps somebody here has read some of these and can validate them.

I did a brief search and came across this list:

http://www.geocities.com/sia101/review.html

The site gives a description of each book.

The Martial Artist's Book of Five Rings !Bel approved!
Tridaya Inner Power Manual
Practical Tae Kwon Do
Living the Martial Way
Positive Mental Attitude
Samurai Sketches
Ju Jitsu-Nippon Ketsugo Ryu (Realistic self defense)
The Mindset of a Martial Artist.
Okinawan Karate..Teachers, styles and secret techniques
The Warrior as Healer
Musashi
Living the Martial Way
Moms and Dads' Guide to Martial Arts for Kids
Ryoma Life of a Renaissance Samurai

*If you want ping me a note on these and I will edit this list for each book as good, crap or whatever.

L

[p_quick]

i bought the peaceful warrior after we talked at thanksgiving time physic. I've been slowly picking thou that book and that the 5 rings.

all good stuff.

Ill have to check out the other books on here once i finish these.

[Soo Ma Tai]

Also this book....



is full of great little things to remember...like "He who hesitates, meditates in a horizontal position.". Very appropriate to belegarth and combat in general.

[Physic]

Article on ambidexterity. Thanks Arrakis.


http://traevoli.com/ambidex.php

[Physic]

Flow in Sports: The keys to optimal experiences and performances

by Susan A. Jackson (Author), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Author)

[Derian]

Has anyone checked out Flow in Sports yet?

I've been wanting to do so and wonder if it's worth it.

[Physic]

I will be purchasing it on my next amazon shopping spree. I still have a few books to finish before this happens.

[Physic]

new stuff

[Derian]

For anyone who's interested, I have Flow in Sports and it looks like it's going to be a good read, definitely worth the $12. I'll post something more once I've had some time to finish it.

[Loptr]

SHould be getting
The Prince
The Book of Five Rings
The Unfettered Mind

In the mail any day.

L