 | Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.93 Inspired ramblings of one of the best martial arts minds of our age.
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 | Fists of Fury (AKA The Big Boss)
Buy used from: $4.11 The original soundtrack is what you really want, which ads far as I know can only be found in the UK and possibly China. Try UK Amazon.
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 | Black Feiyue Martial Arts Shoes
Buy new: $14.99 In white (traditional Shaolin) or black, these are the staple (main) shoe of Chinese martial arts outside of Taiji. If you do kung fu (especially Shaolin or Wushu), this is THE shoe.
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 | Jet Li's Fearless (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $1.44 Need a kung fu hero? You may as well go with Jet Li. He's the Bruce Lee of this point in History, and his movies are actually of much higher production quality and acting.
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 | Hero
Buy used from: $1.01 Awesome movie, awesome martial arts ethic, amazing story, action-packed (enough).
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 | Fist of Legend
Buy used from: $3.89 Oldschool Jet Li classic.
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 | Once Upon A Time In China: Collection
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $17.97 More classic Jet Li. If you can find them, always get widescreen in original soundtrack format with English subtitles (of course).
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 | Tai Chi Music - Dr. Paul Lam
Buy used from: $13.53 This should work for Taiji background music. You will find other you like better, you just will.
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 | Tai Chi Melody by Shanghai Chinese Traditional Orchestra
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $56.06 This is the Chinese Taiji background music I use.
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 | Learn To Play The 21-string Gu Zheng Package
Learn to play an awesome ancient Chinese traditional stringed instrument while recovering from Chinese martial arts practice
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 | Under Armour Men Heatgear Team UA Tech Tee
Buy new: $18.99 - $25.00 Just an idea if you are already cut, otherwise, use loose T-shirts or wicking-wear shirts to sweat in during practice. The ideal shirt is something that wicks away sweat (if you sweat alot).
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 | Hanes Classics Men's 6-pack Cushion Extra Low-Cut Socks
Buy new: $5.79 - $11.00 Buy these, LOTS of these. Your ankles are going to get hot if you don't. These have the right amount of cushion and don't slide around on me (which many do). Long socks will bug the crap out of you very quickly.
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 | Wooden Weapon - Wooden Broadsword
Buy new: $13.95 Find a wooden broadsword online that is sized specifically for you. This is the safest way for a beginner to adpat to a combat steel weight blade without slicing the crap out of him/her self on upper arms and calves.
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 | Sword - Single Broadsword Combat Steel
Buy new: $108.99 Just get this sword as your combat steel sword, your non-wooden, non-performance/non-Wushu, purely combat/forms training sword. It's the closest thing to a real sword experience most broadsword artists will probably ever find for under $500.
Select correct blade length by using this broadsword length guide: http://www.shopwushu.com/pages.php?pageid=13
2 words: go slow.
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 | Gu Zheng, 18 strings with Stand
Cheapest Gu Zheng on Amazon, 18 strings, as opposed to 21 strings. Learn to play Gu Zheng in your downtime while the local Chinese mafia recovers from their recent futile attempt to take over your Chinatown restaurant.
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 | The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment (Tuttle Martial Arts) by Wong Kiew Kit
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.36 Wong Kiew Kit is a recognized expert on Shaolin history and technique. Worth exploring.
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 | American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China by Matthew Polly
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $0.57 Get a feeling for the current Shaolin landscape in recent years.
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 | The Shaolin Workout: 28 Days to Transforming Your Body and Soul the Warrior's Way by Sifu Shi Yan Ming
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.97 Shi Yan Ming is a super-cool sifu and of course very famous. Gain a perspective on the Shaolin training regimen in the average contemporary Shaolin Gung Fu school as it stands today.
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 | Shaolin Chin Na Fa: Art of Seizing and Grappling. Instructor's Manual for Police Academy of Zhejiang Province (Shanghai, 1936) by Liu Jin Sheng
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $23.08 Shaolin grappling arts. Required self-defense Shaolinery.
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 | Shaolin Secret Formulas for the Treatment of External Injury by Monk De Qian
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $17.95 Experiment on yourself in the privacy of your own home!
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 | The Shaolin Grandmasters' Text: History, Philosophy, and Gung Fu of Shaolin Ch'an by Order of Shaolin Ch'an
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $24.40 Explore and unravel all the factions of Shaolin and figure out for yourself what is what. The authors have ties to the original (American) Kung FU tv series with David Caradine, and quite possibly to the CIA...(?).
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 | Analysis of Shaolin Chin Na, 2nd Edition: Instructors Manual for All Martial Styles by Jwing-Ming Yang
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $10.21 Best Chin Na book.
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 | Comprehensive Applications of Shaolin Chin Na: The Practical Defense of Chinese Seizing Arts for All Styles (Qin Na : the Practical Defense of Chinese Seizing Arts for All Martial Arts Styles) by Yang Jwing-Ming
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $4.60 Nice stuff.
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 | Taiji Pushing Hands 1 & 2 (YMAA Tai Chi) Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
Buy new: $39.95 This is the best author to buy Taiji stuff from, and this is his Push-Hands series. Throw others off balance with minimal effort. Master Push-hands, and nobody will be able to push you around...even in your 90's!
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 | Taiji Pushing Hands 3 & 4 (YMAA Tai Chi) Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
Buy new: $39.95 The second installment of Push-Hands series.
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