Musashi's Dokkodo (The Way of Walking Alone)

understanding than those who don’t. Period.” – Loren W.
Christensen, martial arts Masters Hall of Fame inductee

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As martial arts students progress through the lower ranks it is
extraordinarily useful for them to keep a record of what they
have learned. The mere process of writing things down
facilitates deeper understanding. This concept is so successful,
in fact, that many schools require advanced students to
complete a thesis or research project concurrent with testing for
black belt (or equivalent) rank, advancing the knowledge base
of the organization while simultaneously clarifying and adding
depth to each practitioner’s understanding of his or her art. Just
as Bruce Lee’s notes and essays became Tao of Jeet Kune Do,
perhaps someday your training journal will be published for the
masses, but first and foremost this notebook is by you, for you.
It contains both structured and unstructured blank pages for
you to take notes and make sketches that enhance your
training experience. As an added bonus, there are 125 thought-
provoking martial arts quotes too. This is where the deeper
journey on your martial path begins…
15. 
The Way to Black Belt
 (Kane/Wilder)
“It is so good I wish I had written it myself.” – Hanshi Patrick
McCarthy, Director, International Ryukyu Karate Research
Society
Cut to the very core of what it means to be successful in the
martial arts. Earning a black belt can be the most rewarding
experience of a lifetime, but getting there takes considerable
planning. Whether your interests are in the classical styles of
Asia or in today’s Mixed Martial Arts, this book prepares you to
meet every challenge. Whatever your age, whatever your
gender, you will benefit from the wisdom of master martial
artists around the globe, including Iain Abernethy, Dan
Anderson, Loren Christensen, Jeff Cooper, Wim Demeere,
Aaron Fields, Rory Miller, Martina Sprague, Phillip Starr, and
many more, who share more than 300 years of combined

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training experience. Benefit from their guidance during your
development into a first-class black belt.
16. 
101 Safety and Self-Defense Tips
 (Burrese)
Learn from the top experts on safety and self-defense in the
field. This book is a compilation of lessons from 101 different
books dealing with violence and survival. Besides learning from
the included lessons, the book provides and list and samples to
assist you in building your own safety and self-defense library.
Learn from Loren Christensen, Kelly McCann, Rory Miller, Ira
Lipman, Lawrence Kane, Kris Wilder, Michael Janich, Sammy
Franco, Marc “Animal” MacYoung, Juval Aviv, Massad Ayoob,
Peyton Quinn, Sanford Strong and more…
17. 
Hard Won Wisdom from the School of Hard Knocks
(Burrese)
The author’s actual experiences provide the backbone for this
realistic look at self-defense. Barroom brawls, street fights, and
barracks ruckuses combined with bouncing, security, and
bodyguard work taught the author the realities of fighting and
street violence. This informative and entertaining guide
contains loads of serious lessons and practical advice on
fighting and violence and gives you the knowledge you’ll need
to prevail in a physical encounter (including how to be aware of
and avoid an impending fight). Burrese covers the physical
aspects of self-defense such as punching, kicking and other
related training, but more importantly, he covers the little
discussed aspects of self-defense and fighting.
18. 
How to Protect Yourself by Developing a Fighter’s Mindset
(Burrese)
The Fighter’s Mindset is the foundation to build your safety and
self-defense strategies upon. You must have the proper
mindset to stay safe, aware, and avoid potential danger; and

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you must have the proper mindset to escape to safety or attack
back if you are assaulted or attacked. Learn how and why you
must be aware, be decisive, be courageous, be willing, be
vicious, be determined, be cool and believe in yourself. He
even shares why being nice is a safety and self-defense
strategy. Filled with practical advice and quotations from many
leading experts, this guide to developing a fighter’s mindset will
be the cornerstone to your safety and self-defense. It will
increase your safety and ability to defend yourself if ever
attacked.
19. 
Tough Guy Wisdom
 (Burrese)
The first volume of the ultimate collection of “tough guy” movie
quotes and trivia. The movie lines you love, along with the
settings, the actors/actresses in the scenes, movie trivia, and
interesting facts about the actors who said them. For action
movie buffs and tough guy film aficionados, the Tough Guy
Wisdom series will “Make your day!”
20. 
Tough Guy Wisdom II
 (Burrese)
Volume two of the Tough Guy Wisdom series. The movie lines
you love, along with the settings, the actors/actresses in the
scenes, movie trivia, and interesting facts about the actors who
said them. For action movie buffs and tough guy film
aficionados, the Tough Guy Wisdom series will “Make your
day!”
21. 
Tough Guy Wisdom III
(Burrese)
Volume three of the Tough Guy Wisdom series. The movie lines
you love, along with the settings, the actors/actresses in the
scenes, movie trivia, and interesting facts about the actors who
said them. For action movie buffs and tough guy film
aficionados, the Tough Guy Wisdom series will “Make your
day!”

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22. 
Fight Back
 (Christensen)
Some “experts” say that you should be submissive when
attacked at home or by a stranger. You won’t find that advice
here, although you might use it as a ruse before you claw your
assailant’s eyes and annihilate his groin. Your ultimate goal is
to get away but you don t achieve that by being meek and
docile. You get away by drawing on that hard-wired survival
instinct to attack him like an enraged lioness protecting its
babies. Learn exactly what you need to survive an attack in
your home or on the street.
23. 
Slapping Dragons
 (Smedley)
All too often, martial artists surrender their intellectual freedom
and opt instead to accept without thinking the strange and
unbelievable claims made by so-called masters and experts in
the martial arts. Wallace Smedley takes a close look at the
claims and asks important questions about the basis for such
acceptance. Some of the claims are harmless, but some can
get you killed if you follow them, and so questions need to be
asked. Often, asking questions on the subjects can be
compared to slapping a dragon, but Smedley claims that there
are times when Slapping Dragons is exactly what we need to
do. This book contains expanded articles comprised from the
best of wallacesmedley.com as well as new material.
24. 
Ignorance, Myth and Martial Arts
 (Smedley)
Within the martial arts a person will find outrageous claims, and
subtle lies. There are tales of ancient masters who had powers
usually reserved for Superman or Santa Clause, but there are
also instructors who use misleading marketing tactics to entice
students to pay to be safe. Few instructors actually tell students
that the best way to be safe is to be nice to people and not act
like a raving ding-dong anytime someone rubs you the wrong

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way. One will also find absurd practices and a near
brainwashing process where you surrender your critical thinking
in favor of herd mentality. It is easy to not question the
instructor, or the procedures and policies of the class and
organization. There is a much more difficult road in questioning,
but questions must be asked.