Ji Do Kwan The Way to Wisdom provides a history of one Korean Kwan that was unlike all the rest. Through its dynamic and sometime precarious existance, the Ji Do Kwan survives Korea's civil war to became a major influence in the 1950's era of Korean Kwans and the internal conflicts between the Korean martial arts community and the new, independent, post Japanese occupation, Korean government fighting with the martial arts community to unify and Ji Do Kwan's support to the Korean government and its secret plan to force the Korean martial arts community to create Taekwondo and get Taekwondo...

Tang Soo Do Hall of Fame and Greatest People of Tang Soo Do are the people that drove Tang Soo Do to be one of the world's most popular and versitile styles of Korean martial arts and allowed the transformation of Tang Soo Do to Taekwondo allowing Korea to use Tang Soo Do as a foundation to create Korea's national martial art and Olympic sport. The Greatest People of Tang Soo Do identifies many of the Korean and American practitioners and diplomats that have helped to make the Tang Soo Do style of Korean martial arts, one of the most popular and controversial of all time. The Greatest People...

Song Moo Kwan Tang Soo Do explains the creation, history and evolution of the first Korean martial arts Kwan opened just as World War II was ending and its founder, Byung Jik Ro and the first Kwan named after the pine trees that surround Mt. Songshan, home of the first Buddhist Shaolin Temple. The fighting art at the Shaolin temple is known in Korean as Kwon Bup and it was used as preventive medicine program by the Buddhist monks who brought to Buddhism China using the Silk Road and adopted or the Buddhist's emphasis on physical and mental health improvements, preventive medicine, medical...

Tang Soo Do The Complete Story describes the creation, history and evolution of the 20th century Korean style of martial arts. It includes who the individuals were that opened the first Kwans teaching Tang Soo Do and Kong Soo Do and where each had earned their Black Belt while attending college in Japan that returned home to open the Kwans that taught Tang Soo Do as World War II was ending and the colonial occupational forces were being removed by the U.S. military planning to invade Japan. It also includes the creation and history of some of the other Kwans that taught their version of Tang...

The Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do provides the creation, evolution and history of first Korean Kwan by Grandmaster, Won Kuk Lee who was the first to use the name Tang Soo Do as Korea's Post World War II martial art and Chung Do Kwan's travels with the new post war Korean government to become Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do and whose relationship with Japanese occupying force that allowed Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee to teach Tang Soo Do before the Japanese were forced to leave Korea eventually caused Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee arrest and invitation to immigrate to the United States by one of the United States...

The Zen Primer provides the information to decide to study Zen long-term and acquire its many benefits. The Zen Primer is the most complete source on Zen and its benefits to its practitioners, its origins and evolution in the Asian communities as well as the United States.

When considering training in martial arts, its advantageous to your satisfaction with martial arts that the education also include some academic information to balance with the physical training, so the author recommends a person do just a little research about martial arts, because the only information that will be provided in training will be related 100% to the physical training and their is so much more to martial arts than just the kick-punch aspects. Martial arts can be defined as any of the traditional systems of Oriental self-defense or combat that utilize a person's physical skill...