CHIN NAH & SHUAI JIAO top

Chinese Wrestling Methods of Grappling and Throwing
A new translation of a 1930's Shuai Jiao classic by Dong Zhong Yi. Hundreds of great old photos...

Fundamentals of Shuai Chiao
Here is Dr. Weng's textbook, the first major book in English on the art of Chinese Wrestling....

18 Method Arhat Chin Na
Chin Nah both as single and partner applications and performance.

Illustrated Shaolin Grappling:
A simple, inexpensive book from China on the art of locking and restraining with Chinese and English en face.

Simplified Chin Nah (Capture Skills)

Practical Chin Na

Effortless Combat Throws

Dim Mak
"The deadly art of the Death Touch, revealed in a classic kitschy volume.

CHOY LAY FUT top

Choy Lay Fut by Doc Fai Wong
A good introduction co-authored by well known martial writer Jane Hallender ...

Choy Lay Fut by Lee Koon Hong
The dynamic style of Choy Lai Fut outlined by a popular Chinese teacher ...

Tsai Lee Fo Bai Mo Fist
A middle Level set of that great Southern system Choy Lay Fut...

Tsai Lee Fo (Choy Lay Fut) Golden Leopard Level Fist
A middle Level set of that great Southern system Choy Lay Fut...

Tsai Lee Fo (Choy Lay Fut) Waddy Play
A staff set from the great Southern system Choy Lay Fut...

Choy Lay Fut Spinning Spear
Beautifully photographed CLF spear set in COLOR ...

Choy Lay Fut Whirling Staff
Well known CLF instructor Lee Koon Hung in a special color folio of this ...

Choy Lay Fut Dragon Fan
Beautifully photographed CLF spear set in COLOR ...

DRUNKEN FISTS top

Secrets of the Drunken Fist
Here is a self published introductory manual that shows much information on the Eight Shadows Branch of Drunkard's Boxing with acupoints, a form, applications ...

Zui Jiu Quan A Drunkard's Boxing
A drunken fist set fully illustrated

Drunkard's Fist
Feeling a little tipsy? Here is a book by Leung Ting on the Drunken boxing with an older, experienced player demonstrating...

Drunken Monkey
Feeling tipsy because if it's the year of the monkey (if you're like Shihfu Mancuso, a Tiger you just feel grumpy all year) here's a combination, Drunken Monkey. Yes, it's real...

ESSAYS &THEORY top

Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals
A historical survey on those wonderful training books so many of us collect. Brian Kennedy and Elizabeth Guo translate over thirty of these famous and hard to find ...

Recommended!
The Spring and Autumn of Chinese Martial Arts-5000 Years
by Professor Kang Ge-Wu
(The first major history in English of Kung Fu)

The Sword Polisher's Record by Adam Hsu
A series of essays on the practice and goals of Kung Fu. Not only are these brilliant but intelligently deal with everything a cut above the typical. Adult consideration of important topics.

Deadly Blows
Brian Adams' famous work on the medical implications of martial strikes

Martial Arts Teaching Tales

Empowerment with Freedom from Fear
A manual of owman's self-defense.

Kung Fu for Young People
An illustrated children's book of Kung Fu with well known cartoonist, Frank Hill...

FU JOW PAI & Tiger Boxing (North and South) top

The Spirit of the Five Animals
A nicely done text with five form sections one for each of the classic Shaolin five animals...

Entering Fu Jow Pai
The first major book in English on the Fu Jow Tiger Claw system.

Shaolin Tiger Boxing
This bilingual book shows a Tiger form handed down from Beggar Boxing.

Tiger in the Moonlight
A really well photographed book on the popular Fu Jow Tiger Claw system.

ZEN and the Way of the Fist
Tak Wah Eng's book on the art of Shaolin and its meaning.

Shantung Black Tiger Kung Fu
It's a classic. This book by Donn Draeger and company was not only the first of its kind but an early example of how clear and well presented a martial arts book could be. It could stillbe studied for clarity and composition.

HUNG GAR (Hung Family Fist) top

Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Ling Nam Hung Gar
Teacher Kwong Wing Lam gives an overview of the Hung Family Fist along with history, legends, iron palm training, descriptions of the forms, medicine and ...

Hung Gar Self Defense:
This unusual book is for the Hung enthusiast. Written by Shihfu Ho Lap Tin, it shows the Dragon and Tiger Umbrella set, 8 healthy ways for the body and some self defense methods with Fan, bench, cane etc. ...

Shaolin Ten Animals:
A Southern Kung Fu form of the Shaolin system mimicking the actions of the famous 10 animals...

Taming the Tiger (Gung Gee Fook Fu) by Bucksam Kong:
One of the primary fists of Southern Style Hung Gar Tiger Crane style ...

Shooting Star Fist of Hung Gar Kung Fu:
A fist combining major Hung Family Tiger/Crane movements by one of the Deng Fang's old disciples

LONG FIST (various Northern Styles) top

Wushu Among Chinese Muslims
A little classic on the Cha (Zha) system of Kung Fu and its influence on the world of Chinese martial arts.

Eagle Claw Kung Fu
A reissue and enlargement of the very first major Eagle Claw Kung Fu book in the English language by Leung Shum. Long overdue...

Eagle Claw Leopard Form
A nicely done little book with a famous form from the Eagle Claw system...

Eagle Claw Eight Step and Shaoling Punching Forms
Another well done little book with a famous and essential forms of the Eagle Claw system...

Monkey Boxing
A popular Chinese/English book on this imitative style of Hou Quan.

Advanced Chinese Leg Maneuvers
An authentic bootleg (no pun intended) of Lee Ying Arn's classic

24 Running Foot Strokes
An inexpensive and expanded version of Lee's classic mentioned above, but real.

10 Routine Spring Leg:
We love this form and this is probably our best book - and cheapest - on the subject of the famous Tan Tui (Spring Leg) exercise.

Wah Lum First Fist Form
A nice, very learnable form from the famous Chan Pui group.

Essential Anatomy for Health and Martial Arts
An excellent cross reference for any martial artist. This gives the anatomical position of accupressure points in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Mei Hua (Plum Blossom) Fist
This major Northern Chinese style has weathered revolutions and centuries of change. It is also famous for battling atop wooden poles.

Basic Kung Fu Boxing with Tan Tui and Gung Li Quan:

Chang Quan (Long Fist) Compulsory Routines:
A very early codification of Mainland China's compulsories

Wu Song Breaks Manacles
Can you believe it? ANOTHER cuffed hand form based on a hero from the popular novel Water Margin.

Kao Shou Fan Zi Quan
A "cuffed hand" set from the famous tumbling boxing style.

Da Cheng Kung Fu
Right now one of the most popular styles. Derived from Xing Yi, with a strong emphasis on fighting and internal practice. This a hard-to-find book by the style's "gate keeper."

LOST TRACK (Mi Zong) top
Don't be fooled by these book being called "Yan Qing". That's just another name for Mi Zong, the Lost Track style...

Yan Qing Quan #1
Volume One has Mi Zong Quan, Mian Zhang Quan, Zhai Kou Zi (Partner set).

Yan Qing Quan #2
Volume One has Yan Qing Jia, Zi Lian Shou Quan, Tao Huan San (Partner set).

Yan Qing Quan
A Joseph Crandall translation from the Chinese of a Lost Track book by Li Guo Zhi.

PRAYING MANTIS top

Seven Star Praying Mantis Kung Fu
This book is over thirty five years old but it is one of the best ever written in English for a feel of the Mantis ...

Books by Shihfu Paul Eng
Here are five beautifully done volumes on the art of the Praying Mantis. They include: Spear Hand, Bong Bu, Mantis Steals Peach, Plum Blossom Hand and Single Thrust Blossom...

Seven Star Mantis Series #1
In English and Chinese. Three sets shown: Da Fan Che (Big Turning Cart), Xiao Fan Che (Little Turning Cart) and Li Pi Quan (Strong Split Boxing)

Seven Star Mantis Series #2
In English and Chinese. Three sets shown: Da Jia Shi, Xiao Jia Shi and Tang Lang Chui

Intercepting Fist
In English and Chinese

Volley-Catch Fist
In English and Chinese

Secret of Seven Star Mantis
Complete survey

Tai Chi Mantis Beng Bu Fist
In English and Chinese

Praying Mantis Killing Fan Play:
This books is a small Chinese/English volume on a Tai Chi Mantis form involving, what else but ...

Praying Mantis Black Tiger Intersectional Fist:
An intermediate Mantis form which could be learned from a book...

Praying Mantis Series # 1 & #2
McLisa's original books on mantis with Bong Bu single and duet...

The Tang Lang Mantis System by James I. Wong
A reprint of now-rare Koinonia books on the Mantis system...

SHAOLIN top

Shaolin Martial Skill Boxing
For the first time in English the famous Fifth road of Shaolin is explicated along with notes on the Northern Shaolin Fist ...

Iron Palm with Wing Lam
Our new Iron Palm book is one of the best ever. Take a look.

72 Consummate Arts and Secrets of Shaolin
A translation of a famous book showing "secret" Shaolin training methods...

Complete Iron Palm Training
A reissue and recompilation of one of the most famous early texts on Iron Palm training.

Shaolin Red Fists (Big and Small)
Joseph Crandall's translation from the Chinese of a Shaolin book by Wang Si Qian.

Shaolin Long Fist
It's been 20 years and this is still one of the most straight forward introductions to the history and forms of Kung Fu (5 forms included)

Shaolin 12 Road Tan Tui (Spring Leg)
This is the Spring Leg set that has 12 roads. The book is thorough and printed in both Chinese and English.

108 Techniques of the Shaolin Wooden Dummy Hall
A double book reproducing old wood block illustrations of bald headed monks performing the applications from the fabulous "Hall of Wooden Dummy" techniques. We can't vouch for the authenticity but ...

Shaolin Tiger Style Boxing
Lots of styles have a Tiger Boxing form. But this one is from the infamous "Beggar's" Style. Also an Arhat form. Printed in English side by side with Chinese.

Secrets of Shaolin Temple Boxing
Robert Smith's beautiful little book is the first volume we ever read on Shaolin. Many others would say the same.

Shaolin MOI FAH by Wing Lam and Ted Mancuso
One of the 10 sets of Ku Yu Cheong's core Shaolin series

64 Leg Attacks of Shaolin
From the Buddha Warrior ZiRan style of Shaolin...

12 Fatal Leg Attacks
Continuing the series on Buddha Warrior ZiRan style of Shaolin...

Complete Iron Palm Training
A reissue and recompilation of one of the most famous early texts on Iron Palm training.

SOUTHERN KUNG FU & SHORT FISTS top

Southern Shaolin Kung Fu Ling Nam Hung Gar
Teacher Kwong Wing Lam gives an overview of the Hung Family Fist along with history, legends, iron palm training, descriptions of the forms, medicine and ...

Shaolin White Crane Style Kung Fu
A new and impressive volume - a labor of love -on the Fujian White Crane system that is such a good Kung Fu style and one of the inspirations for Okinawan Karate ...

Dragon Form Fist
A nice little text in Chinese and English on the Southern Dragon...

Entering Fu Jow Pai (Tiger Claw System)
Derived from Hung Gar and Black Tiger. One of the most popular...

Phoenix-Eye Kung Fu
The first book in English on Chu Gar. Draeger and Chambers both always produced significant work on anything that came to their attention. Good.

Shaolin Ten Animals:
A Southern Kung Fu form of the Shaolin system mimicking the actions of the famous 10 animals...

White Crane Style by Yang Jwing Ming
One of Yang's better books on a style he learned in Taiwan. Over 300 pages ...

WEAPONS top

Soft Kung Fu Weapons: Rope Dart and Steel Whip
This is one of the few books on Kung Fu "soft" weapons.

Rope Dart: The Kung Fu Weapon
A new book on a rarely seen weapon.

Praying Mantis Yen Qing Saber
A book by Huang Han Xun (Wong Han Fun), the "Mantis King", explaining the use of a well known mantis saber set.

Authentic Wing Chun Weapons
This is a good basic book on the main weapons of this popular style, namely Butterfly Knives and Staff. Applications are shown.

Classical T'ai Chi Sword
A nicely done book on the subject with one of Tuttle's better presentations.

Intelligent Straight Sword of the Lama School
La Ma style (as in Tibetan Lama) is also known as Tibetan White Crane.

Tai Chi "13 Method" Sword
A simple explanation of the Tai Chi Sword printed in both English and Chinese.

Kwan Dao Play
The Kuan Dao is a heavy weapon for the practitioner to learn about leverage and control. A decent set with the weapon and other information.

Tornado Broadsword Form
This is a Double Saber set from the Wah Lum style.

Kwan Dao Saber
For those who like Kuan Do it is a great weapon though much less frequently performed than formerly.

Chinese Art of Swordsmanship
This book is recommended. The author was a student of the excellent Wang Pei Sheng and brings some of Sheng's serious momentum to the subject!

T'ai Chi 13 Sword: A Master's Manual
Praise for Olsen's work on the Tai Chi sword, even if much of it is from his own quarter.

WING CHUN PAI top

Wing Chun Gung Fu Series
Randy Williams has been training for a number of years. In this series of beautiful printed oversized books he goes into a huge amount of detail on the system he loves, Wing Chun ....

Siu Nim Tau
This is a condensation and comilation from Leing Ting's well known "red book." It concentrates on the essential first form ...

Wing Chun Warrior
Ken Ing's new book centers around Duncan Leung, an indoor student of Yip Man. Essays, anecdotes and illustrations give the sense of the Wing Chun world form the inside.

116 Wing Chun Wooden Dummy Techniques with Yip Man
The famous "golden book" on the art of the Mook Jong demonstrated by Yip Man right before passing away.

The MOOK JONG Construction Book by Janich
Save hundreds! Build you own wooden dummy...

Wing Chun Chum Kiu
A beautifully designed little series of references in English and Chinese ...

Wing Chun Bil Ji
A beautifully designed little series of references in English and Chinese ...