Author: Lu Shengli
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
ISBN: 9781583941454
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.
Combat Techniques of Taiji, Xingyi, and Bagua
Author: Lu Shengli
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
ISBN: 9781583941454
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
ISBN: 9781583941454
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The combat techniques of Tai Ji, Ba Gua, and Xing Yi were forbidden during China's Cultural Revolution, but the teachings of grandmaster Wang Pei Shing have survived. This comprehensive guide, written by one of his students, selects core movements from each practice and gives the student powerful tools to recognize the unique strategies and skills, and to develop a deeper understanding, of each style. It contains complete instructions for a 16-posture form to gain mastery of combat techniques. The book helps practitioners achieve a new level of practice, where deeply ingrained skills are brought forth in a more fluid, intuitive, and fast-paced fashion.
Internal Combat
Author: Jameka Leonard
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781494770075
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book of poems are the voices of many situations that I have either been in or either exposed to. I am a disabled mother diagnosed with brain cancer, and despite being diagnosed with cancer, I still strive to excel. Please support me
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781494770075
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book of poems are the voices of many situations that I have either been in or either exposed to. I am a disabled mother diagnosed with brain cancer, and despite being diagnosed with cancer, I still strive to excel. Please support me
Power of Internal Martial Arts
Author: Bruce Kumar Frantzis
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556432538
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
From the author of "Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body" comes a book that introduces martial arts practitioners to three "internal" arts and their subtle powers. Inner martial arts rely on internal energy for power rather than on muscles or tension. 15 photos.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781556432538
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
From the author of "Opening the Energy Gates of Your Body" comes a book that introduces martial arts practitioners to three "internal" arts and their subtle powers. Inner martial arts rely on internal energy for power rather than on muscles or tension. 15 photos.
Military Thought
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Power of Internal Martial Arts and Chi
Author: Bruce Kumar Frantzis
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
ISBN: 9781583941904
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Explains how awareness and development of chi gives internal martial arts their power and strength, contains full instructions on the Taoist system Nei Gung, describes how specific martial arts use chi, includes stories about masters. The new edition adds a new foreword, new introduction by author, practical explanations on spiritual traditions of the internal martial arts, index"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
ISBN: 9781583941904
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Explains how awareness and development of chi gives internal martial arts their power and strength, contains full instructions on the Taoist system Nei Gung, describes how specific martial arts use chi, includes stories about masters. The new edition adds a new foreword, new introduction by author, practical explanations on spiritual traditions of the internal martial arts, index"--Provided by publisher.
Fiscal Year 1973 Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, Construction Authorization for the Safeguard ABM, and Active Duty and Selected Reserve Strengths, Hearings ..., 92-2 ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
Eroding Military Influence in Brazil
Author: Wendy Hunter
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862207
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Wendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. She documents a marked, and surprising, decline in the political power of the armed forces, even as they have remained involved in national policy making. To account for the success of civilian politicians, Hunter invokes rational-choice theory in arguing that politicians will contest even powerful forces in order to gain widespread electoral support. Many observers expected Brazil's fledgling democracy to remain under the firm direction of the military, which had tightly controlled the transition from authoritarian to civilian rule. Hunter carefully refutes this conventional wisdom by demonstrating the ability of even a weak democratic regime to expand its autonomy relative to a once-powerful military, thanks to the electoral incentives that motivate civilian politicians. Based on interviews with key participants and on extensive archival research, Hunter's analysis of developments in Brazil suggests a more optimistic view of the future of civilian democratic rule in Latin America.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862207
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Wendy Hunter explores civil-military relations in Brazil following the transition to civilian leadership in 1985. She documents a marked, and surprising, decline in the political power of the armed forces, even as they have remained involved in national policy making. To account for the success of civilian politicians, Hunter invokes rational-choice theory in arguing that politicians will contest even powerful forces in order to gain widespread electoral support. Many observers expected Brazil's fledgling democracy to remain under the firm direction of the military, which had tightly controlled the transition from authoritarian to civilian rule. Hunter carefully refutes this conventional wisdom by demonstrating the ability of even a weak democratic regime to expand its autonomy relative to a once-powerful military, thanks to the electoral incentives that motivate civilian politicians. Based on interviews with key participants and on extensive archival research, Hunter's analysis of developments in Brazil suggests a more optimistic view of the future of civilian democratic rule in Latin America.
Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria
Author: Akali Omeni
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351597639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide an understanding of the Nigerian military’s internal role – a role that today, as a result of internal threats, pivots towards counter-insurgency. The book illustrates how organizational culture, historical experience, institutions, and doctrine, are critical to understanding the Nigerian military and its attitudes and actions against the threat of civil disobedience, today and in the past. The second aim of the book is to examine the Nigerian military campaign against Boko Haram insurgents – specifically, plans and operations between June 2011 and April 2017. Within this second theme, emphasis is placed on the idea of battlefield innovation and the reorganization within the Nigerian military since 2013, as the Nigerian Army and Air Force recalibrated themselves for COIN warfare. A certain mystique has surrounded the technicalities of COIN operations by the Army against Boko Haram, and this book aims to disperse that veil of secrecy. Furthermore, the work’s analysis of the air force’s role in counter-insurgency is unprecedented within the literature on military warfare in Nigeria. This book will be of great interest to students of military studies, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, African politics and security studies in general.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351597639
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 and 2017. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with military units in Nigeria, Counter-Insurgency in Nigeria has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide an understanding of the Nigerian military’s internal role – a role that today, as a result of internal threats, pivots towards counter-insurgency. The book illustrates how organizational culture, historical experience, institutions, and doctrine, are critical to understanding the Nigerian military and its attitudes and actions against the threat of civil disobedience, today and in the past. The second aim of the book is to examine the Nigerian military campaign against Boko Haram insurgents – specifically, plans and operations between June 2011 and April 2017. Within this second theme, emphasis is placed on the idea of battlefield innovation and the reorganization within the Nigerian military since 2013, as the Nigerian Army and Air Force recalibrated themselves for COIN warfare. A certain mystique has surrounded the technicalities of COIN operations by the Army against Boko Haram, and this book aims to disperse that veil of secrecy. Furthermore, the work’s analysis of the air force’s role in counter-insurgency is unprecedented within the literature on military warfare in Nigeria. This book will be of great interest to students of military studies, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, African politics and security studies in general.
Military compensation background papers
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428982485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428982485
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
Book Description
Civilian Control of the Military
Author: Michael C. Desch
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Power and Military Effectiveness is an instructive reassessment of the increasingly popular belief that military success is one of democracy's many virtues. International relations scholars, policy makers, and military minds will be well served by its lessons."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"Power and Military Effectiveness is an instructive reassessment of the increasingly popular belief that military success is one of democracy's many virtues. International relations scholars, policy makers, and military minds will be well served by its lessons."--BOOK JACKET.