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Print: $5.70 Download: FREE Rules for full-contact Wing Chun competitions. Developed with the help of existing Chi-Sao Rules, the Wing Chun Fight Club's list of MMA fouls, and the Martial Arts Planet kung fu forums.
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Print: $13.82 Written as part of the larger "Fencing, Boxing, and Wrestling", Armstrong's contribution contains a mixture of technique, history, and rules from England's three most popular wrestling systems of the late 19th century--Cornish, Cumberland-Westmoreland, and Lancashire catch.
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Print: $12.20 William Miller was one of the best athletes of the late 19th century. He held, at one time or another, titles in Greco-Roman wrestling, boxing, saber fencing, long distance walking, and weightlifting, taught courses in club swinging, and was an accomplished gymnast. He faced all of the top athletes of his day--Muldoon, Ross, Dinnie, Whistler, Goss, Pennell, and countless others. This book is a result of his years of experience in every aspect of Victorian physical culture.
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Print: $13.64 Published in 1807 and heavily plagiarized thereafter, this book remains one of the seminal manuals of the early prize ring--the Golden Age of Cribb, Molineaux, Belcher, Pearce, and Gully.
Also included is Pierce Egan's brief "New Year's Gift to the Fancy", a brief "how to" on pugilism.
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Print: $13.78 First published in 1886, Shaw's "Teacher of Sparring" combines thorough illustration with detailed instructions. It is comprehensive in its approach, containing striking, grappling, and even a few "dirty tactics".
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Print: $13.65 In an era when Japanese Jiu-Jitsu was only beginning to become known in the Europe and America, Mori Ohashi's Jiu-Jitsu manual was one of the first published in the West.
Ohashi's system includes throws, locks, submissions, "pressure points", and a wide variety of unique conditioning exercises. Definitely useful for the vintage Jiu-Jitsu aficionado
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Print: $13.45 The 1880's were an age of the professional "all around" athlete--an individual who competed at the highest level in a variety of disciplines, usually a combination of track and field, wrestling, boxing, and weightlifting. Unfortunately, the "all arounder" went out of style as athletics became increasingly specialized...But their manuals remain.
Morris Bornstein's manual is one of the finest examples of these, written in 1880 near the height of "all around" athletics. Bornstein based his curriculum on the use of dumbbells, Indian clubs, and simple gymnastics, but he was nothing if not innovative--he even included chapters on archery and quoits!
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Print: $13.76 George Benedict's writings on boxing are some of the most widespread and profusely illustrated of their kind in the late 19th century.
In addition to his ability as an illustrator (he created all of the diagrams himself), Benedict was a talented athlete. He held the amateur middleweight boxing championship of the West, the club-swinging championship of the West, and was knowledgeable in a wide variety of different sports--from caber-tossing to gymnastics.
This book is a synthesis of the 1881 and 1883 editions of his boxing manual.
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Print: $13.71 Once part of a larger volume (Fencing, Boxing, and Wrestling), E.B. Mitchell's book outlines the style of boxing he was taught by his teacher, Mike Donnelly--the foremost boxing "professor" of the late 19th century.
Mitchell was himself a winner of the Queensberry Cup, considered the most prestigious of the amateur boxing competitions in Victorian England.
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Print: $13.68 Wrestling manual published in the late 19th century, covering the Cumberland and Westmoreland and Catch-as-Catch-Can wrestling. Brief sections are also dedicated to Swiss, German, and Styrian wrestling.
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