Best Martial Artist Biographies Books
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1. Yearbook
Author: by Seth Rogen
B07Q185KRF
Crown (May 11, 2021)
May 11, 2021
#2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Rogen’s candid collection of sidesplitting essays … Thrives at both explaining and encapsulating a generational comedic voice. The Washington PostA collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys.
(All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people’s searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!Hi!I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so here it goes!!!
Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy book way of saying the first one. I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like.
2. The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Author: by Josh Waitzkin
0743277465
Free Press
English
In his riveting new book, The Art of Learning, Waitzkin tells his remarkable story of personal achievement and shares the principles of learning and performance that have propelled him to the toptwice. Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game.
A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father’s book Searching for Bobby Fischer was made into a major motion picture.
After dominating the scholastic chess world for ten years, Waitzkin expanded his horizons, taking on the martial art Tai Chi Chuan and ultimately earning the title of World Champion. How was he able to reach the pinnacle of two disciplines that on the surface seem so different?
I’ve come to realize that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess, he says. What I am best at is the art of learning. With a narrative that combines heart-stopping martial arts wars and tense chess face-offs with life lessons that speak to all of us, The Art of Learning takes readers through Waitzkin’s unique journey to excellence.
3. Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee
Author: by Shannon Lee
Flatiron Books
English
240 pages
Bruce Lee’s daughter illuminates her father’s most powerful life philosophiesdemonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day.”Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water.”Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy.
But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical disciplinethey are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life. Now, in Be Water, My Friend, Lee’s daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization.
Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee’s teachings, expanding on the foundation of his iconic be water philosophy. Over the course of the book, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and naturalness in life, bringing us closer to our essential flowing nature and our ability to be powerful, self-expressed, and free.
4. African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
Author: by Geoffrey Girard
Hanover Square Press
English
480 pages
“A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life. The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, and his astonishing journey from Northeast Africa to the heights of Japanese society.Warrior.Samurai.Legend. When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s, he had already traversed much of the known world.
Kidnapped as a child in Northeast Africa, he served as a bodyguard to the head of the Jesuits in Asia, traveling to India and China, and eventually arriving in Japan, where everything would change. Most Japanese people had never seen an African man before.
Some believed he was a god. Others saw him as the black-skinned Buddha. Among those drawn to him was Lord Nobunaga, head of the most powerful clan in Japan, who made Yasuke a samurai in his court. Soon, Yasuke was learning the traditions of martial arts and ascending the upper echelons of Japanese society, where he would live on to become a legend for the centuries to come.
5. Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do: Jeet Kune Do Training and Fighting Strategies (Self-Defense)
Author: by Sam Fury
Survival Fitness Plan
English
146 pages
Teach Yourself Jeet Kune Do! Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do is more than a bunch of martial arts techniques. It is a usable Jeet Kune Do training manual covering all aspects of Bruce Lee’s fighting method. Unlike other martial arts, Bruce Lee developed Jeet Kune Do to be a practical form of self-defense.
Use these techniques and strategies to beat your opponent as quickly as possible. Discover one of the most street-effective martial arts ever invented, because this is Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do.Get it now. Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do IncludesOffensive and defensive Jeet Kune Do techniques.
Learn a martial art made for street fighting. Train in the way of the intercepting fist. Learn Jeet Kune Do foundations and fighting strategy. Increase personal fitness. Become lightning fast. Increase power in all your strikes. Easy to follow descriptions with clear pictures.
Progressive lessons so you can learn at your own pace. Develop the ability to instinctively escape/react to any situation…. And much moreTrain in the Way of the Intercepting FistThe fundamental lead straight punch and all the important lessons that go with it.
6. Bruce Lee: A Life
Author: by Matthew Polly
Simon & Schuster
English
656 pages
The definitive (The New York Times) biography of film legend Bruce Lee, who made martial arts a global phenomenon, bridged the divide between eastern and western cultures, and smashed long-held stereotypes of Asians and Asian-Americans. Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life.
It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon.
Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like James Coburn and Steve McQueen; his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white actors in eye makeup; his eventual triumph as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery.
7. Knockout
Author: by Mia Kang
English
304 pages
1419743325
An intimate and unflinching memoir exploring Mia Kang’s journey from self-loathing to self-love Mia Kang is many things: a sought-after model, an immigrant, an eating disorder survivor, and a Muay Thai fighter. Her first book, Knockout, is the story of how she eschewed normative body standards and learned to use martial arts to redene her sense of self-worth.
In a charming, erce, and intimate voice, Kang invites readers into her world. She once lived and died by her weight, but she is now dened by her condence in being a woman who lives outside the mold of what we’re taught is feminine.
After dealing with bullying, addiction, body dysmorphia, anxiety, depression, and even suicidal thoughts, Mia acknowledges that she is lucky to still be alive to tell readers what she’s learned: to not let anyone else dictate who you are supposed to be.
8. Worth Defending: How Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Saved My Life
Author: by Richard Bresler
B0974G8D2H
English
296 pages
“My friend, have you ever done any martial arts? My family has been doing Jiu-Jitsu for sixty-five years.We’re champions. We’re very well known in Brazil. Why don’t you come by for a free class?”I couldn’t have imagined it then, but that moment would mark the beginning of the rest of my life…
Richard Bresler was Rorion Gracie’s first student in LA, and is widely recognized as the first student of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu in the USA. His memoir, WORTH DEFENDING, chronicles his over 40 years’ involvement with the Gracie family and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, including the almost 20 years he spent working closely alongside Rorion helping to grow Jiu-Jitsu through the “Gracie Garages” (the first of which was in the house that Richard and Rorion shared in Hermosa Beach, CA), the founding of the Gracie Academy (made possible by a loan Richard made to Rorion), and the inception of the UFC (in which Richard invested and at which he was ringside with Hlio Gracie himself).
Read the story of the birth of modern MMA from someone who was there every step of the way! This memoir includes: Richard’s journey out of addiction and depression through the transformative power of the martial arts. Richard’s experiences training privately with many members of the Gracie family, including Rorion, Rickson, Royce, and Grandmaster Hlio himself.
9. God's Double Agent
Author: by Bob Fu
Baker Books
English
336 pages
Tens of millions of Christians live in China today, many of them leading double lives or in hiding from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. Bob Fu, whom the Wall Street Journal called “The pastor of China’s underground railroad,” is fighting to protect his fellow believers from persecution, imprisonment, and even death.
God’s Double Agent is his fascinating and riveting story. Bob Fu is indeed God’s double agent. By day Fu worked as a full-time lecturer in a communist school; by night he pastored a house church and led an underground Bible school.
This can’t-put-it-down book chronicles Fu’s conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his brethren. God’s Double Agent will inspire readers even as it challenges them to boldly proclaim and live out their faith in a world that is at times indifferent, and at other times murderously hostile, to those who spread the gospel.
10. The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath
Author: by Philip Carlo
William Morrow Paperbacks
English
298 pages
The New York Times bestselling author of Gaspipe and The Ice Man, Phillip Carlo returns with a hair-raising portrait of arguably the most depraved psychopath in the history of the Mafia, mob enforcer Tommy Karate Pitera. The Butcher tells the riveting true story of a hit man who loved his work too mucha maniac believed responsible for more than sixty remarkably brutal murderswhom even organized crime’s most cold-blooded assassins feared.
Another riveting journey into the darkest corners of the underworld, Carlo’s The Butcher is destined to be a true crime classic alongside Wiseguys by Nicholas Pileggi and Underboss by Peter Maas.
11. Win or Learn: MMA, Conor McGregor & Me: A Trainer's Journey
Author: by John Kavanagh
Penguin UK
English
240 pages
Growing up in Dublin, John Kavanagh was frequently bullied. As a young man, after suffering a bad beating when he intervened to help a woman who was being attacked, he decided he had to learn to defend himself. Before long, he was training fighters in a tiny shed, and promoting the earliest mixed-martial arts events in Ireland.
And then, a cocky kid called Conor McGregor walked into his gym. Here, John Kavanagh tells his own remarkable life storywhich is at the heart of the story of the extraordinary explosion of MMA in Ireland and globally. Employing the motto “win or learn,” Kavanagh has become a guru to young men and women seeking to master the arts of combat.
And as the trainer of the world’s most charismatic champion, his gym has become a magnet for talented fighters from all over the globe. Kavanagh’s portrait of Conor McGregorwho he has seen in his lowest moments, as well as in his greatest triumphsis a revelation.
What emerges is a remarkable portrait of ambition, discipline, and persistence in the face of years and years of disappointment. It is a must read for every MMA fanbut also for anyone who wants to understand how to follow a dream and realize a vision.
12. The Way of the Fight
Author: by Georges St-Pierre
0062195654
William Morrow Paperbacks
English
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the world’s most popular UFC fighter, Georges Rush St. Pierre, comes a startlingly honest portrait of a fighter’s journey, highlighting the lessons that propelled his rise from bullying victim to internationally celebrated athlete and champion.
There’s more to winning battles than fists and feetFor world-renowned professional fighter Georges St-Pierre, the greatest asset is not physical strength or athleticismit’s a sense of purpose. From his beginnings as a small, mercilessly bullied child first discovering karate to his years as a struggling garbage collector who spent all his free time in the gym, his hard-fought rise in the sport of mixed martial arts, and his long, painful recovery from a career-threatening injury, Georges never lost sight of his ambition to become the greatest martial artist of all time.
In The Way of the Fight, Georges for the first time reveals what propelled him not only to become a champion but to embrace obstacles as opportunities to build character. The Way of the Fight is an inspirational look into the mindset of a master.
