Guess who’s back! OK, the book covers probably give it away, but in case you want a name, it’s Wong Han Fun (Huang Han Hsun). We have restocked, FINALLY, 13 nicely-done reprints of some of his hard-to-find titles. And when we say “nicely done”, what we mean is some of the clearest, crispest photos that […]
Mar
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2017
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2017
Feb
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Jan
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Nov
24
2016
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2016
Who’re You Calling Hurt?
We just refreshed our “Hurt” books section and, boy, do we have a great selection of sale-priced gems—there are about 40 of them! As we’ve said in the past, the title “hurt” is a little misleading, since 99% of these are indistinguishable from new copies of the same title. “Hurts,” in the book industry, are […]
Nov
1
2016
1
2016
Fundamentals of Pakua Chang, Restocked
Just a quick note to say that we are now back in stock on the elusive and terrific Volume 1 of Park Bok Nam’s Fundamentals of Pakua Chang. This book’s reputation from back in the day is still worthy; it was one of the first to detail Pakua Chang’s (Bagua Zhang’s) training, and is still […]
Sep
16
2016
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2016
Sep
13
2016
13
2016
Pa Kua Fundamentals, Circling Back to Plum
One of the most popular series of books on our “want” list Is Park Bok Nam’s 2 volume set, Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chang. Both volumes have been out of print for several years. A while back, Plum reprinted the 2 disk set, and we are happy to announce that we now FINALLY have, back […]
Mar
24
2016
24
2016
Northern, Southern, Inside and Out
A few restocks for your reading pleasure—click images for more info Hung Kuen Fundamentals: Gung Gee Fook Fu (English/Chinese)This exceptional first volume of the Lam family Hung Kuen series is back in stock! We cannot say enough good things about this beautiful and comprehensive treatment on Hung Gar Fundamentals. We are so pleased to be […]
Feb
26
2016
26
2016
Second Look: Quick Whip Stick
In re-reviewing a DVD from one of our favorite teachers (Deng Fu Ming) we noticed something we had missed the first time around: his DVD on Sun Taiji Partner Practice contains an added clip at the end, a beautiful and somewhat sophisticated whip stick form. It is a complete demonstration, but without instruction. This is […]
Jan
19
2016
19
2016
Restock: A few favorites return
We are always adding new titles to our Chinese book section, but every once in a while we are happy to see some old friends cycle back through. Our most recent shipments have landed limited quantities of those below (and more to come!) Bajiquan Illustrated: A gem of a book with photos of GM […]
Nov
24
2015
24
2015
Choy Lay Fut Returns
Just a short, happy announcement that we have been able to restock a few of these long-out-of-stock Choy Lay Fut (Tsai Lee Fo) DVDs. We only were able to find a few, but for the time being, we have a nice sample to offer again. (click image to go to page)
Nov
8
2015
8
2015
More Good Books at Great Prices
(We posted this a couple of weeks ago, and just discovered that the links didn’t work. So let’s try this again…) A couple of our hurt copies have returned; these are books with a tiny bend/crimp/crunch in an unassuming corner, that sell for happily discounted prices. Interested? Visit our hurts book page to see the […]
Oct
20
2015
20
2015
Feng Zhi Qiang is Back!
As you look through our products and articles you might find that some items have a big WANT LIST announcement meaning we are currently out of stock. But we keep those lists up anyway just because of things like the two items on this page. Both are by the highly-recognized Tai Chi/Xing Yi/Qigong teacher Feng […]
Aug
27
2015
27
2015
Get ‘Em While They’re Hot: Xing Yi and Tai Chi
We’ve added two books to our wonderful “Hurt Book” section: Shang Yun-Xiang XingYiQuan and Classical Wu Style Tai Ji Quan. The excellent Xing Yi text is one we have been carrying, but these are special priced at $12.95 (as opposed to the previously discounted Plum price of $19.95.) The Wu Style book is an old […]
Jul
31
2015
31
2015
Dragon (re)Emerges from the Sea
PLUM revives one of the most popular Kung Fu books of the 80’s, during the Golden Era of Kung Fu movies and practice. Dragon Form Boxing is a short book displaying form and function. The moves are big and easy to learn. This was one of a series that look liked a paste-up directly from […]
Jul
12
2015
12
2015
Some Animals…
…are so powerful that they can disappear at will. Case in point…Sifu Wing Lam’s book on Hung Gar’s Hasayfu Five Animals leapt right off our site at some point, and we didn’t even notice…it was there, it was gone! A Five Animal conspiracy? Anyway, we have recaptured the gang and the book is back where […]
Jun
25
2015
25
2015
A couple of classics return: Taijiquan and Baguazhang
It’s ALWAYS good news when we are able to announce the restocking of important texts. The Chinese books, especially, can be very difficult to keep and often it can be months or even years between having them available. So to get two at once is a real joy. The first is Wei ShuRen’s “True Description […]
Mar
19
2015
19
2015
Hurts without Pain: A Few More Books Return
Great news! We’ve received a few more copies of some of our more popular Hurt books (those nearly perfect copies of great books at about half the regular price.) As always, they are in limited quantities…
Mar
10
2015
10
2015
Wei Shuren and Shaolin Books
Just a quick note to say that we received a few copies of this hard-to-get text by Wei Shuren on Yang Tai Chi. We’ve also restocked this nice Chinese/English dual-language series (SC800 series), on many Shaolin forms. They have different covers than shown, but are the same inside. Click on each picture on the page […]
Feb
26
2015
26
2015
Return of the Hurts
The problem with those closets you have filled and would like to forget, like the ones out back or under your staircase, is that they invariably contain treasures. I admit it, we’ve been neglectful with our Hurts books. And we even like this section! Things are no longer amiss, though, since we just finished putting […]