Just arrived: 2009 WTF Taekwondo World Championships DVD Set

We've just received a limited number of 2009 WTF Taekwondo World Championships DVD Sets. Held in Copenhagen Denmark the 2009 WTF Taekwondo World Championships showcases the best taekwondo players in the world today. You get high quality WTF taekwondo action filmed at ringside. Over 3 hours of footage including all of the men's and women's weight classes, with semi-finals highlights and complete final matches.

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.

Martial Arts Technique of the Week

New Martial Arts Technique of the Week podcast: 8 minute Core Strengthening follow along workout. Subscribe in iTunes or your favorite newsreader.

New Article: How to Choose a Self-defense Baton

New Article in the Training Tips Library: How to Choose a Baton for a Self-defense Weapon by Master Hei Long. This is an excerpt from Master Long's latest book, Art of the Steel Telescoping Baton: Tie Gun Lian Shi. Learn the pros and cons of the various types of collapsible batons, including spring body batons, chrome body batons and steel telescoping batons.

Buy 1 Martial Arts DVD, Get a 2nd DVD for $10

Here are just a few of the $10 deals:

Taekwondo Sparring Get Championshipship Training Drills DVD for $10 when you buy the Complete Sparring #1 DVD Get 2 Taekwondo Sparring DVDs for $29.95

Self-defense Get Junsado Fundamentals Standing and Ground Combat DVD for $10 when you buy the Advanced Knife Defense DVD Get 2 Self-defense DVDs for $24.95

Weapon DVDs Get Nunchaku Forms DVD for $10 when you buy the Tonfa DVD Get 2 Weapon DVDs for $19.95

Tai Chi DVDs Get Sun Style Tai Chi DVD for $10 when you buy the Chen Style Tai Chi DVD Get 2 Tai Chi DVDs for $22.95

Sword DVDs Get Korean Sword and Weapons Arts DVD for $10 when you buy the Haidong Gumdo DVD Get 2 Sword DVDs for $19.95

Karate DVDs Get Karate Kumite Sparring DVD for $10 when you buy the Beginner Karate DVD Get 2 Karate DVDs for $19.95

Grappling DVDs Get Jujitsu Volume 1 DVD for $10 when you buy the Police Ground Combat DVD Get 2 Grappling DVDs for $27.97

Shotokan DVDs Get Shotokan Black Belt Kata #2 DVD for $10 when you buy the Shotokan Black Belt Kata #1 DVD Get 2 Shotokan Kata DVDs for $27.97

Get Tang Soo Do Color Belt Forms for $10 when you buy Tang Soo Do Black Belt Forms
Get 2 Tang Soo Do DVDs for $24.95

Get TKD Step Sparring for $10 when you buy Taegeuk Forms
Get 2 TKD DVDs for $29.95

Get Long Stick DVD for $10 when you buy the Double Stick DVD
Get 2 Stick DVDs for $22.95

Get Complete Kicking for $10 when you buy Ultimate Kicking Drills
Get 2 Kicking DVDs for $29.95

Get Ki: Internal Energy DVD for $10 when you buy Martial Arts of Korea
Get 2 Korean Martial Arts DVDs for $19.95

Get Nunchaku Forms for $10 when you buy Bo, Kama, Tonfa
Get 2 Weapon DVDs for $27.97

Get Self-defense Encyclopedia for $10 when you buy Wrist and Arresting Locks
Get 2 Self-defense DVDs for $34.95

Get Ultimate Fitness for $10 when you buy Aerokicks
Get 2 Training DVDs for $19.95

Get the Short Stick DVD for $10 when you buy Cane for Self-defense
Get 2 Weapon DVDs for $24.95

Get Taekwondo Drills for $10 when you buy TKD Scoring
Get 2 TKD DVDs for $29.95

Get Taekkyon DVD for $10 when you buy Korean Sword and Weapon Arts
Get 2 Korean Martial Arts DVDs for $22.95

20% off Fitness and Training Books

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

Martial Arts Product Giveaway

We're running a product giveaway today and tomorrow for our Facebook Fans. Join us on Facebook and get the chance to win the Turtle Press book or DVD of your choice.

new article: Taking Control in a Self-defense Situation

Read an excerpt from Loren W. Christensen's new book: How to Fight the Pain Resistant Attacker

In Taking Control of a Self-defense Situation, Loren talks about how to control the attacker, how to control the situation and how to control your actions, why these three are essential to successfully escape when attacked and why you can't have one without the other two.

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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Muay Thai Fights filmed in Thailand

We've uncovered over 10 hours of Muay Thai fight footage in our archives and have started posting it at YouTube. All of the fights were filmed at ringside between 1999 and 2003 in rural Thailand.

Muay Thai Fights playlist

Martial Arts Group Conditioning Drills

The martial arts classroom drills video set is complete at YouTube. There are about 50 drills and games for partners and small groups, mostly geared for use in kids' classes.

How to Use your Keys for Self-defense

This series of videos demonstrates 7 methods of using your keys as a self-defense weapon against an attacker. Because you carry your keys everywhere when traveling, they are an excellent and totally legal weapon to use when defending yourself or your loved ones.

Watch the How to use your Keys for Self-defense videos at YouTube

New Article: Taekwondo Self-defense Principles

This article, excerpted from Taekwondo Self-defense: Taekwondo Hoshinsool by Sang H. Kim, outlines the three principles of coping with a self-defense situation after you've made the choice to fight back. Read Taekwondo Hoshinsool: Assess, Attack, Adapt

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 Reviewers Wanted

If you're willing to review Sang H. Kim's Complete Kicking book and post the review at Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com, let us know. We'll send you an autographed copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. We're only looking for 10 reviewers, so jump on this today if you're up for it.

Zen Buddhism documentary selected for Film Festival

Zen Buddhism: In Search of Self has been named an official selection of the 2009 T.H.I.S. Buddhist Film Festival to be held September 13th to 19th at the Shaw Brothers’ Lido Cinema in Singapore.

Zen Buddhism: In Search of Self, available from www.TurtlePress.com, is the only film ever to document the daily lives of female Korean Buddhist Nuns and their 1000-year old tradition of gathering for a ninety day period of meditation, fasting and contemplation deep in the mountains of South Korea. It has been compared in atmosphere and style to Into Great Silence, the Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary.

The festival features an international line-up of 10 films showcasing Buddhist values and cultures from all over the world, including China, Thailand, Japan, Tibet, Afghanistan, Iceland and the United States. The festival opens with the acclaimed Chinese film A Full Bright Moon and closes with the Berlin International Film Festival Peace Film award winner Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame.

The film festival aims to promote awareness of the Buddha’s timeless Teachings and diversity of Buddhist cultures around the world through the use of film, a contemporary medium. Playing on the oft-cited verse “Thus have I heard” (T.H.I.S. stands for Thus Have I Seen) at the start of many Buddhist sutras, T.H.I.S. Buddhist Film Festival 2009 hopes to achieve a similar reflection amongst Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike, as they discuss Buddhist Teachings and values featured in the films.

Clearance DVDs near sold out

We have only 1 or 2 of each of these clearance DVDs left:

Tai Chi Qigong DVD
Tai Chi Single and Double Broadsword DVD
Tai Chi Push Hands DVD
Bagua Eight Basics Palms DVD


Get 'em while they last . . .

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