Nishiyama

[OnlyAnEgg]

I believe I got lucky yesterday. While in Columbus, my wife pointed out a little bookshop lodged in an old church. Loving books, I stopped there and lingered for a bit.

Upstairs, in one of the used book areas, I found several tomes involving karate. I selected one to purchase. Now, I selected it for three reasons:

1) It had a linen cover

2) It was marked $1.95 (US)

3) I recognized the name, Nishiyama

I looked at it closer when I got home and checked it on the web. It is, indeed, Karate by Hidetaka Nishiyama Amazon Link. Moreover, it's marked 'First Edition, Fourteenth Printing' inside the first page.

Lucky, lucky me

I also bought The Essential Tao. I lost my other copy.

 

[Navarre]

Wow, sounds like quite a find. Good for you!

(Makes me wish I could read.)

 

[arnisador]

Good deal! I love getting old books.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

Good deal! I love getting old books.

I would've bought it for the cover alone. Now, I see it's listing for $49.95 on amazon...I'm even more tickled.

 

[bignick]

Mmmmm...old book smell...hell, new book smell...books are great...

 

[mrhnau]

You've got me interested in going to some of my old haunts and scouring the shelves

 

[Navarre]

I have a book that tells me about "The Places You Will Go". It has an odd sort of rhyming canter but is apparently written as a powerful motivational tool.

The illustrations haven't been very useful but it has good self-defense advise. For instance, it cautions me to "not go down any not-so-good street".

Is this a good reference source for training?

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

I have a book that tells me about "The Places You Will Go". It has an odd sort of rhyming canter but is apparently written as a powerful motivational tool.

The illustrations haven't been very useful but it has good self-defense advise. For instance, it cautions me to "not go down any not-so-good street".

Is this a good reference source for training?

I have long said, 'I will practice in a box/I will practice with a fox/I will practice here or there/I will practice anywhere'.

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

You've got me interested in going to some of my old haunts and scouring the shelves

It's going to be a new passtime for me, as well.