Cool Martial Arts Links

Check out these cool websites, videos, and more. Please submit your cool links too so we can make this list grow.

Websites

• Complete Martial Arts has all kind of great links to Martial Arts publications, websites, blogs, and their extremely popular forum.
• Mark Urbin's kempo/kenpo frequently asked questions pages are unbeatable. Lots of great kempo information and background here.
• Martial Arts Info offers an overview of many different martial arts systems. This is a good site for comparing different systems and gathering general history.
• Frequently Asked Questions Leave it to the kids at Stanford University to put together the most complete history and general resource on kempo! You HAVE to check this out.
• Kempo Martial Arts This site offers a description of Kempo and provides comparisons to other martial arts systems.
• MMA Playground Fun MMA website with fantasy game, forums, and stats.
• Yahoo! Answers This message board post does a great job of describing the history of kempo, including detail on the kenpo vs. kempo terminology.
• Ask.com has a great Martial Arts section that links to a lot of articles, blogs, and newsfeeds on the Martial Arts community.

Books

• Miyomoto Mushashi's Book of Five Rings Investigates the history and philosophy of this traditional form of Japanese sword fighting.
• Sun Tzu's The Art of War Widely regarded as "The Oldest Military Treatise in the World," this landmark work covers principles of strategy, tactics, maneuvering, communication, and supplies; the use of terrain, fire, and the seasons of the year; the classification and utilization of spies; the treatment of soldiers, including captives, all have a modern ring to them.
• Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living, and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching looks at the basic predicament of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit. This book is about wisdom in action. It teaches how to work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao (the basic principle of the universe) and applies equally to good government and sexual love; to child rearing, business, and ecology.
• Forest E. Morgan's Living the Martial Way is a step-by-step approach to applying the Japanese warrior's mind set to martial training and daily life.
• Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do. In 1970, Bruce Lee suffered a back injury which confined him to bed. Rather than allowing this to slow his growth as a martial artist he read feverishly on Eastern philosophy and Western psychology, constructing his own views on the totality of combat and life. It was during this time that Lee wrote 7 volumes containing his thoughts, ideas, opinions, and research into the art of unarmed combat, and how it applies to everyday life. Some of this material is now available for the first time. This landmark book serves as a complete presentation of Bruce Lee's art of jeet kune do. The development of his unique martial art form, its principles, core techniques, and lesson plans are presented here in Lee's own words. It also features Lee's illustrative sketches and his remarkable treatise on the nature of combat, success through martial art, and the importance of a positive mental attitude in training. In addition, there are a series of "Questions Every Martial Artist Must Ask Himself", that Lee posed to himself and intended to explore as part of his own development, but never lived to complete. Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way is the book every Bruce Lee fan must have.