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108 Heroes Manual
Contributor(s): Michaels, Jesse (Illustrator), Montaņez, Tavo (Illustrator), Jwanouskos, Barbara Marie (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1515112144     ISBN-13: 9781515112143
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $23.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: August 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Martial Arts & Self-defense
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 8" W x 10" L (0.58 lbs) 126 pages
 
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108 Heroes is a kung fu school & art hailing from Chinatown, San Francisco from 2010 - 2017. This interior facing manual aims to inspire and provide a map for the students and fans to navigate the initial martial training unique to this school. The practice in this manual was not composed purely on circumstance, theory, history, or lineage. All of this is honored in practice. However, 108 does not lay claim to any specific lineage. Every movement, moment, breath, posture, and form is specifically curated by personal experience to offer a path of practical physical, holistic, combative, energetic, and mental achievement. It is broad and deep. It is not designed to bind you to tradition, chase a trophy, or win a title per se. It is meant to free you in the deepest sense. It is intended to let you walk one day without a teacher. To emerge masterfully, achieving your full potential. This work serves to teach, but only to students who will continuously approach the practice with a beginner's mind. Meaning your cup, should constantly be empty. Kill the ego. Approach every moment with an open mind. Be inquisitive about learning something new. Anything. Question everything, and reverse engineer every piece of material to gain depth and abstract observations for a deeper practice. Approach all of this training as metaphor to take out of the ring. Proficiency in combat and sport fighting is is only a small part of this art. In fact, you will only need a small amount of basic techniques done well to win most fights. "Basics win fights." There is no need to overwhelm yourself with the decades of material within this book if fighting in the ring is your only goal. This curriculum magnificently offers a lifetime of practice, community, and new material that fosters personal growth parallel to none. Combatively, the art will evolve from basic self-defense and into advanced stand-up striking and kicking. Traditional forms, blade work, weapons, disarms, pressure points, ground-work, and grapples will all be studied. Internal energetics within arts like taiji, xing yi and bagua will all be presented. Conditioning and sparring methods will be undertaken to make you proficient in three distinct levels of approach: Form & fitness, sport fighting, and battlefield tactics (under the lens of ancient methodology). To the reader, this art is yours. Enjoy
 
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