Nice one Monabooks!!

Apparently the Essence of Internal Martial arts books I and II are sold out. I really shouldn’t have to repeat what I said in an earlier post about the necessity of reading these, but I really think that you need them in your life! If you can brave the awful [sorry guys, but it's my [...]

Furious Angels – Boondock Video

Furious Angels – Boondock The finest MMA highlight video I have ever seen.Blood, emotion, glory and crushing defeats; it touched me. So much more than the uneducated and ignorant view that ‘it’s just two men fighting’ It may be, and perhaps should be, difficult to accept the notion that a prizefighter’s work merits the same [...]

Meditation Books UK

A bit of an experiment in making a website of books that are relevant to this blog.If you fancy a look at some meditation and chi kung books then have a peek at Meditation Books UK

Gym Jones

These guys are without doubt – real men. eg: KNOWLEDGE What you know does not matter – what you do matters. Physical training produces physical memories – not simply muscle memory but a psychophysical imprint, knowledge that is instinctual rather than intellectual. This is useful knowledge. However, before you can forget and allow the unconscious [...]

A training philosophy

I had a bit of an epiphany today: coming home from work and feeling hungry, I wanted to do some QiGong but also to eat. Bit of a dilemma as you’re not really supposed to eat before training, or is it after… or actually in some of the classics isn’t it no training an hour [...]

The Modified 5 Tibetans and new schedule

I’ve written about the modified 5 Tibetans before (Here) and I said that you really need to get this book: UK: Your Hands Can Heal You, US: Your Hands Can Heal You because it explains them, the Mentalphysics exercises and a large amount of other stuff you should know (see the other post). But what [...]

Latest Martial Arts/Meditation book releases RSS feeds

You can use these RSS feeds to always be kept up to date with the latest book releases and pre-release info from Amazon UK for the following subjects: Internal Martial Arts Tai Chi Bagua Martial Arts Wing Tsun Systema MMA Meditation QiGong Chi Kung The 5 Tibetans Aikido Hope these help! Edit: Turns out you [...]

The Modified 5 Tibetans

I reciently found out that there is a modified version of the Five Tibetans! For more information than I’m willing to give out here you really need to get this book: Your Hands Can Heal You (UK) Your Hands Can Heal You (US) Now, there’s no doubt for shit titles this bad boy ranks right [...]

Lack of posts

My computer is currently fecked, so apologies for the lack of posts. One upside of having no computer; I have been able to work my way through my reading list which is currently a 22 book monster! I realised another thing recently – not all the best books are on amazon (!), it seems that [...]

Train more than you sleep

Now, to be perfectly honest, it’s been absolutely ages sine I’ve done any meditation or Nei Gong practice. What I have been doing is training in the Martial Art I study and going to the gym pretty regularly. So I suppose all is not lost… What have I learnt from this period of no meditation. [...]