Books on Vietnamese Arts

[CuongNhuka]

Does anyone know any good books on Vietnamese Martial Arts? Speciallifcly Viet Vo Do Vovinam would be apprecaited, but any would be quite good.

 

[VN_Quetoi]

yes there is...one new Vovinam Viet Dao book just come out also Cao Dai Kung Fu also.

 

[arnisador]

Do you have the names of those books? I'm curious to see them!

 

[CuongNhuka]

yes there is...one new Vovinam Viet Dao book just come out also Cao Dai Kung Fu also.

Well? Not gonna give me any names?

 

[silat]

Does anyone know any good books on Vietnamese Martial Arts? Speciallifcly Viet Vo Do Vovinam would be apprecaited, but any would be quite good.

Here are the ones I know of:

Vovinam viêt võ dao dynamique by Phan Toan Chau
Vovinam viet vo dao : el verdadero arte marcial vietnamita by Patrick Levet
Cao Dai Kung-Fu: Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam by Haha Lung

Sincerely,
Teacher: Eddie Ivester

 

[CuongNhuka]

Here are the ones I know of:

Vovinam viêt võ dao dynamique by Phan Toan Chau
Vovinam viet vo dao : el verdadero arte marcial vietnamita by Patrick Levet
Cao Dai Kung-Fu: Lost Fighting Arts of Vietnam by Haha Lung

Sincerely,
Teacher: Eddie Ivester

I don't suppose those are in English, or have an English translation?

 

[arnisador]

I don't suppose those are in English, or have an English translation?

The last is, but the "author" is notoriously credulous and unreliable.

 

[CuongNhuka]

The last is, but the "author" is notoriously credulous and unreliable.

How so?

 

[arnisador]

Well, for one thing, it's widely suspected that it's a pseudonym for Ashida Kim a.k.a. Christopher Hunter.

 

[CuongNhuka]

OK, I'll bite. Who's Ashida Kim or Christopher Hunter?

 

[arnisador]

Try some web searches on Ashida Kim.

 

[silat]

OK, I'll bite. Who's Ashida Kim or Christopher Hunter?

Ok I didn't know about the Lung, Kim connection because Lung didn't do Ninja books but his books are related to martial arts and secret mind stuff so it got me curious and this is what I found.

Real name is Radford W. Davis AKA Christopher Hunter, Chris Hunter, Ashida Kim, Dr. Haha Lung. (I must say that Lung hasn't been proved to be an alias of Davis but the evidence is in strong support)

He's a crack-pot who jumped on the 80's Ninja Band Wagon and wrote a bunch of Ninja Books. They were found to be plagiarized, inaccurate, misleading and down right lies. I have a few from the 80's when I was a kid and their crap.

I guess he has written books under several pennames and several topics just to continue selling books, so when one name gets to hot he gets another one and when there is nothing else to write about on Ninjas he moves on to other Martial Art topics.

Sincerely,
Teacher: Eddie Ivester

 

[arnisador]

I have a few from the 80's when I was a kid and their crap.

Yeah, I'm guilty of this too.

 

[CuongNhuka]

Wait wait wiat, if this Ashida Kim, AKA what ever is like this, then why would he write on Vietnamese Arts? Not to bash my own (in the sense of stylistic orgins), but there aren't too many people who know that such a thing as Vietnamese arts exist. And of those who do, few seem really interested.