Jo, the Japanese Short Staff

Author: Don Zier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865680586
Category : Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the early 1600's, master martial artist Muso Gonnosuke was defeated by Musashi Miyamoto. Humiliated, Muso isolated himself. During this period of time, he conceived the idea of a new form of staff fighting that used a shortened stick four feet in length. The Jo combines the techniques of the spear, sword and the naginata.

Ride Strong

Author: Jo McRae
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147292861X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Taking their lead from professional cyclists, keen cyclists are looking to add off-the-bike exercise to their weekly training to improve their cycling performance. Informative and accessible, this book gives a comprehensive overview of cyclists' biomechanical and anatomical needs for off-the-bike exercise and how to do it, focusing on three key elements: flexibility, core and strength. The book explains how the exercises can be implemented in your training throughout the season, as well as how cross-training can be integrated with cycling performance training. This book provides cyclists with a comprehensive reference of essential stretching, strength and core exercises. The exercises are selected to prevent common cycling related pain and injury issues, and to maximise cycling performance, with the benefit that all the exercises can be performed at home with very little equipment.

Essential Jo

Author: Dan Djurdjevic
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992511333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
The jo is the Japanese 4-foot staff, originally taught with the ken (sword) in the samurai arts. Essential Jo is arguably the most comprehensive text on the subject to date, offering a course of study from white through to black belt in this practical, yet elegant, art. The book features over 900 professional black and white photographs accompanied by clear, detailed textual explanations. While it is intended primarily for students with experience in weapons arts, particularly jodo, the book can also be used by beginners for home study. The art of jodo makes an excellent addition to any martial art system. This is the first instructional text by award-winning martial arts writer and teacher Dan Djurdjevic.

Bebop

Author: Scott Yanow
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879306083
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
Presents a history of bebop from its roots in the late 1930s; describes the musicians, bands, and composers who contributed to this style of jazz; and evaluates key bebop recordings.

Jo

Author: Dave Lowry
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
ISBN: 9780897501163
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
The jo appears to be the lowliest of all tools--an ordinary length of wood--yet it’s an exceptional weapon. While no one speaks of famous jo makers the way they do of sword smiths, the jo is capable of snapping the best swords ever forged. Packed with information on correct grips, stances, postures and etiquette, the book also outlines striking methods, combination techniques, and a 31-count formal solo exercise called tandoku renshu, making it the ultimate resource for those who appreciate Japan’s most subtle weapon.

Never Sit If You Can Dance

Author: Jo Giese
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631525344
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
An Amazon Bestseller Jo’s mother, Babe, liked to drink, dance, and stay up very late. When the husband she adored went on sales calls, she waited for him in the parking lot, embroidering pillowcases. Jo grew up thinking that the last thing she wanted was to be like her mother. Then it dawned on her that her own happiness was derived in large part from lessons Babe had taught her. Her mother might have had tomato aspic and stewed rhubarb in her fridge, while Jo had organic kale and almond milk in hers, but in more important ways they were much closer in spirit than Jo had once thought. At a turbulent time in America, Never Sit If You Can Dance offers uplifting lessons in old-fashioned civility that will ring true with mothers, daughters, and their families. Told with lighthearted good humor, it’s a charming tale of the way things used to be—and probably still should be.

Industrial Market Data Handbook of the United States

Author: Owen Cobb Holleran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 920

Book Description

Illuminating Video

Author: Doug Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 584

Book Description
This volume contains the insights of prominent artists in the field as well as critical writings by scholars and critics. It illustrates the complex, heterogeneous nature of video, and highlights its strong ties to the visual arts and social theory. While providing an essential critical context for understanding video's role as art, these writings show that video is at the forefront of contemporary cultural and aesthetic discourse. Using a wide range of strategies, from the poetic to the deconstructive, these essays provide a long overdue critical context in which to evaluate video as art and its subsequent impact on social and cultural behavior.

STEM Lesson Essentials, Grades 3-8

Author: Jo Anne Vasquez
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325043586
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Want to know how to implement authentic STEM teaching and learning into your classroom? STEM Lesson Essentials provides all the tools and strategies you'll need to design integrated, interdisciplinary STEM lessons and units that are relevant and exciting to your students. With clear definitions of both STEM and STEM literacy, the authors argue that STEM in itself is not a curriculum, but rather a way of organizing and delivering instruction by weaving the four disciplines together in intentional ways. Rather than adding two new subjects to the curriculum, the engineering and technology practices can instead be blended into existing math and science lessons in ways that engage students and help them master 21st century skills.

Essentials of Speech

Author: John Reinder Pelsma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description