from cover Zen Combat is the first comprehensive guide to the Oriental arts of attack and defense-from the bare hand techniques of Karate and Aikido to stick fighting, archery and the sword fighting skills of the samurai warrior. With Mass Oyama and other Japanese masters, the American author and karate expert Jay Gluck has studied all the Japanese fighting arts and he describes them here with more than 100 detailed illustrations. Contents I A Bull Story Master of the Barehand Kill What is Karate Fundamentals: Emptying the Hand-Breath Control In the Dojo-The Uniform; Basic Muscle Conditioning; That Not So Empy Hand; Drilling the Hand Sword; Karate Fists; Equipment; Stance; Tempering the Iron Fists; Special Punching Drills; Pardon My Elbow; The Not So Limp Wrist; My Foot!; Jumping; Use Your Head; Woman's Defenses Against Attacker Let's Dance: Pinan II Cocktail Karate Empty Hands and Empty Heads What is a Black Belt II Why the Zen of Zen Combat Martial Arts Before Zen Humpty Dumpty Daruma Yoga Influences Sculpture and Movement The Sung Zen to Japan The Bushi: the Samurai Karate vs. Judo: Differences Then why Not Bushido? III Kendo: The Way of the Sword Equipment En Garde The Grip Touche The Short Sword I-Ai: The Quick Draw Naginata: Those Wild Samurai-Women's Weapons The Bo Stave Spears: Yari Hoko: Halberd Samurai Cop's Billy: Jitte The Sleeve Tangler: Sodegarame The Armor Piercer: Yoroi-Toshi Scythe-Ball-and-Chain: Kusari Gama Iron Fan: Tesse-Lightining Bolt of Siva: Kongo; The Pen is Mightier IV The Way of Archery: Kyudo The How of Archery The Equipment The Ritual of the Bow-The Approach; The Kneel and the Nock; The Stance; The Draw Military Quick Draw-Indoor Arms-length Drill; Archery on Horseback The Bow of Ritual V Dancing Dervishes of Strength Choreoptic Quintessentials of Karate Buddha in a Cold Shower Firewalking Made Easy The Magician: Ninjutsu VI Aiki-Luke: 4-28 What is Aiki fkundamentals: Emkptying the Head In the Dojo-Let's Dance; The Limbered Wrist; Mowing the Lawn; The High Parry; Skip Advance; Dance of Eight Directions; The Wrist Break; The Double Wrist Break; The High Wrist Break; The Lateral Swing; The Forearm Swing; The Curtsy Flip; The Salaam, or Dive Flip; The Grand Salaam Tumbling Appendix A: Further Reading Appendix B: Zen Combat Schools, Dojo and Groups in USA