Solo Forms of Karate, Tai Chi, Aikido and Kung Fu Book by Bruce Tegner (Preowned)

SOLO FORMS is designed to give the student and enthusiast an opportunity to practice a variety of styles of the martial arts without a partner. Included are characteristic solo routines, staff forms, and improvised exercises adapted from karate, aikido, tai chi and kung fu. About the Author BRUCE TEGNER was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1929. Both of his parents were professional teachers of judo and jujitsu; they began his formal instruction in the martial arts When Bruce was two years old! In a field in which most individuals concentrate on a narrow specialty, Bruce Tegner's experience was unusual. His education covered many aspects of weaponless fighting of many styles, as well as sword and stick techniques. At the age of twenty-one, after becoming California state judo champion, he gave up competition to devote himself to research, course development, teaching, and teacher-training. In the U.S. armed forces Mr. Tegner trained instructors to teach unarmed combat; he taught military