New Book: Explosive Muay Thai - Beyond the Basics

Explosive Muay Thai: Beyond the Basics builds on your basic Muay Thai knowledge to integrate the physical techniques, mental attitude and philosophy of Muay Thai training into a disciplined, progressive approach to training.

New Article: Self-defense in Kicking Range

Read an excerpt about kicking in self-defense range from Loren W. Christensen and Lisa Place's new book Fight Back: A Woman's Guide to Self-defense that Works.

New Book: Fight Back

Loren Christensen and Lisa Place have a new book out today: Fight Back - A Woman's Guide to Self-defense that Works. Get it today for just $12.95 if you're one of the first 50 buyers.

In Fight Back: A Woman’s Guide to Self-defense that Works, martial arts experts Loren W. Christensen and Lisa Place teach you to use your hands, forearms, elbows, teeth, knees and feet to survive the type of attack that unsuspecting women become the victims of every day. And you will learn that you’re surrounded by a limitless cache of weapons that you can use to your advantage against a larger assailant.

New Book: Winning on the Mat

Steve Scott's new book Winning on the Mat: Judo, Freestyle Judo And Submission Grappling has just been released. Veteran coach and author Steve Scott presents the most effective and commonly used skills, techniques and tactics of competitive judo and analyzes why and how they work. Hundreds of winning skills are illustrated in realistic, competitive situations, most with exciting action photos taken at Judo competitions.

Police Defensive Tactics Podcast

 Excellent podcast interview at Police Magazine with Loren W. Christensen about police defensive tactics, including some great info making every standing into a fighting stance, using a baton effectively for nonlethal disabling strikes, and making every stance into a fighting stance.

New Book: Conditioning for Combat Sports

Steve Scott and John Saylor have written an authoritative new book on strength training and conditioning for martial arts and combat sports: Conditioning for Combat Sports.

Here is just small part of what the book contains:

• What is Functional Training and why does it work?
• Periodization: how to plan your training cycles
• Proven workout routines designed just for fighters
• The science behind the exercises, drills and workouts
• Freehand and bodyweight strength training
• The best barbell, dumbbell and weight machine exercises
• How the exercise ball can help you develop a rock hard core
• Strength training with Kettlebells
• "Old School" hard core power training
• Staying healthy and avoiding injuries for maximum mat time
• How to plan your workouts around your fight schedule
• Challenging medicine ball exercises
• Plyometric and jump training
• Over 400 exercises to build strength, power, agility, and speed

BONUS: Foreword by Louie Simmons

New Book: Wrestle & Win

Turtle Press has released Wrestle & Win: Wrestler's Guide to Strength, Conditioning, Nutrition and College Preparation by Steve Kimpel. This book is a comprehensive guide to the in-season and off-season training habits necessary to succeed at the state or national level.

First, find out exactly what kind of strength training and conditioning you should be doing, including how to get the most out of your time in the weight room and what type of workouts to do during the off-season. Then get the facts on eating right, making weight and evaluating supplements. Finally, learn how to successfully make the transition from high school to college wrestling, including an inside view of the recruiting process and a step-by-step plan for getting recognized by college coaches.

New article: What is Step Sparring

New article in the martial arts tips library: What is Step Sparring? In this excerpt from Taekwondo Step Sparring, Sang H. Kim explains what step sparring is and why it's useful for beginner and intermediate level taekwondo andTaekwondo Step Sparring karate students.

2 Martial Arts Books for $20

For a limited time, we've paired up books that go great together and we're offering them for $20 when you buy both titles. Just click on any of the books below to see the special "Buy Both and Save" offer. See something you like? Use the "Add Both to Cart" button and both books will be added to your shopping cart for a total of $20. These are unbeatable discounts that you won't find anywhere else!

Want a sneak peek at just how good these deals are? You got it! Buy the Armlock Encyclopedia and get Grappler's Guide to Strangles and Chokes with it for just $4.05. That's a savings of over $17 off the cover price of these two popular MMA training books.

Author Bob Deatherage on Code Red Radio

Bob Deatherage, author of Terrorism Awareness and Security Operations, is going to be interviewed live on the Code Red radio show tomorrow morning. If you're in the DC area, you can catch it on the radio. Otherwise, you can find the show in the Code Red Radio website archives after its broadcast.

20% off Fitness and Training Books

Now through January 20th, get 20% off all martial arts fitness and training books

New Book: How to Fight the Pain Resistant Attacker

Best selling martial arts author Loren W. Christensen's service as a military policeman during the Vietnam War, his 25 years as a street cop, and his training in the martial arts since 1965 have provided him with real-world experience dealing with violent people, especially those who have a high tolerance to pain. In Fighting the Pain Resistant Attacker, Loren shows you dozens of tried-and-true, step-by-step techniques that target specific parts of the body that will disorient a pain-resistant assailant, destroy his will, and disable his physical ability to keep attacking.

Martial Arts Holiday Gift Ideas

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Taekwondo Self-defense Hoshinsool book

Taekwondo Self-defense:Taekwondo Hoshinsool by Sang H. Kim has just been released. This new book focuses on using traditional taekwondo skills for self-defense. It would make a great supplemental text for taekwondo students and a systematic guide for instructors looking for taekwondo-based self-defense skills for the classroom.

Complete Kicking book review

Aaron Wayne-Duke has reviewed Sang H. Kim's Complete Kicking book in his Spirit Mind and Body podcast this week.

Book Reviews at Martial Arts Unltd

A couple of great new book reviews at Martial Arts [Unltd] : book review of Sang H. Kim's Vital Point Strikes and a book review of Steve Scott's Tap Out Textbook

Revised and Updated for 2009: Martial Arts Instructors Desk Reference

Sang H. Kim has revised and updated his popular martial arts school management and teaching reference book, Martial Arts Instructor's Desk Reference, with new advice for school owners and instructors including tips on using the internet for advertising and promotion. Get high quality advice on teaching, organizing your curriculum, advertising, marketing, publicity, student retention and much more from a highly successful instructor and school owner.

New book released for Martial Art School Owners

Just released today and available at www.TurtlePress.com: Low Cost Marketing for the Martial Art School

Grow your martial art school without breaking your budget! This book is packed with hundreds of free and low cost marketing ideas on a wide variety of topics including advertising, publicity, promotion, student retention and much more.

NEW BOOK: Complete Kicking by Sang H. Kim

Now available - Sang H. Kim's latest book COMPLETE KICKING: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO KICKS FOR MARTIAL ARTS SELF-DEFENSE & COMBAT SPORTS. Learn over 40 kicks, including the purpose of the kick, key points to pay attention to when practicing, step-by-step execution of the kick, the best targets for each kick, applications for sport fighting and self-defense, plus the most common kicking mistakes and how to fix them.

NEW BOOK: Tap Out Textbook - The Ultimate Guide to Sumissions for Grappling

Steve Scott's latest book is hot off the presses. Tap Out Textbook: Ultimate Guide to Submissions for Grappling is a massive guide to submissions. Learn hundreds of ways to make an opponent tap in virtually every situation. This book is huge - 480 pages and over 1900 photos. Grab a copy and hit the mat!