Articles:
Recommended Reading:
- "Ed Parker's Infinite Insights into Kenpo" Volumes #1-5,
by Ed Parker
- "Eskrima Kali Arnis", by Dionisio A. Cañete
- "Tao of Jeet Kune Do", by Bruce Lee
- "Martial Arts America: A Western Approach to Eastern Arts",
by Bob Orlando
- "The Overlook Martial Arts Reader: Classic Writings on Philosophy
and Technique", edited by Randy F. Nelson
- "Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai",
by Dave Lowry
- "Zen in the Art of Archery", by Eugen Herrigel
- "Zen in the Martial Arts", by Joe Hyams
- "The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence",
by Gavin De Becker
Quotes:
"With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even
the simplest goal can seem like an impossible dream."
-Theodore Roosevelt-
"Goals are dreams with
deadlines."
-???-
"An ounce of logic can be worth
more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering
of time."
-Ed Parker-
"The martial arts are not
an exact science. [They are] a selection of variables that can be assembled
at anytime to suit the individual and/or the situation."
-Ed Parker-
"A master can't make you
good, he can only try to point you in the right direction. It's up to you
to supply the dedication and sweat."
-Ed Parker-
""Life is a journey
that happens while we are making other plans."
-Willie "The Bam" Johnson
"But
because we don't know [when death will arrive], we get to think of life
as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number
of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you
remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so
deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without
it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more
times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all
seems limitless."
-from "Sheltering Sky", by Paul Bowle-
"A
warrior may choose pacifism, others are condemned to it."
-Bob Orlando-
"Such a person could hold up
his head in any society without shame as a true bushi in the classic Chinese-Japanese
style, as a gentleman of culture but with a core of steel that would not
bend in time of crisis."
-???-
"Well, there are black belts; and then
there are black belts. Let us strive to be the better of the two."
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