Martial arts research library

[bushido_man96]

Thanks for sharing these, Liver Punch. Definitely some good ones in there I may have to look into. My wife will be so pleased

[Kettlebells]

I agree with you....

[DWx]

So the latest addition to my MA library is a book called:

"Taekwondo: a Korean Language and Terminology Reference" by Benjamin T. Milnes

Came up on my Amazon recommendation list so thought I'd check it out.

Its not bad. Essentially its a list of terminology and a guide to reading and speaking Korean written by a TKD student and Korean speaker. First third of the book gives a brief history on the Korean language and how to read, write and pronounce words. Its clear its written by a TKD person as lots of the examples are technique names or martial arts related. The rest of the book is just a massive terminology list that the author has collected. Terminology is broken down into WTF Taekwondo and ITF Taekwondo words with the hangul and romanized versions alongside the English name. I'd have liked to have seen more of the explanations of the whys and the hows rather than just a long list of words however its still handy as a quick terminology reference.

Its also worth noting though that the author romanizes all the words to how he thinks they should be correctly written in our alphabet, this often doesn't match up with the common TKD spelling of the word. So although the author might be right, if your school spells a word a certain way, you're probably better to stick with the way your school spells it, especially when it comes to things such as written papers at gradings.

Was kinda hoping for more from it but still a nice little guide to supplement your training.

[bushido_man96]

Sounds nice, DWx. Was it terribly pricey?

[DWx]

Was reduced from £14.99 to £13.49 on Amazon.co.uk. Not bad but I kinda feel like it should be double the size or at least more substantial on the Korean language side for that price. The majority of the terminology itself is stuff you could probably Google anyway or find in most TKD books. From what was said in the book it seems as though you can get an accompanying disk (to hear the writer read it) and that would have been really good. Wasn't included in the one that Amazon sent me though.

Here's the listing on the .com site:

http://www.amazon.com/Taekwondo-Korean-Language-Terminology-Reference/dp/1445231050/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330038372&sr=8-1

[bushido_man96]

Thanks for this information, Danielle.

[LePan]

That's such useful information.Thank you

[Romethemighty]

Others mentioned the Tao of Jeet Kune Do, but did anyone mention Bruce Lee's fighting method? It is a three part book that Bruce mostly had part in (finished after death), that is simply awesome in terms of actual training and conditioning. Oh, and GOT FIGHT by Forrest Griffin is great for the same reasons.

P.S. great thread!!!

[shinka]

lots of good infos..thanks

[blacknebula]

Found a copy of 'The Textbook of Moderm Karate' by Teruyuki Okazaki and Milorad Stricevic on ebay a few weeks ago and it arrived this morning. Can't wait to start reading it!