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Loren W. Christensen

Way Alone! Your Path to Excellence in the Martial Arts Paperback – January 1, 1987

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A surefire way to increase your motivation, strength, speed, explosiveness, endurance and timing - The Way Alone. This book about solo training includes tips on weight training, practicing reps and kata, bag work and cardiovascular training anytime, anywhere.

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128 pages
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English
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Paladin Pr
Publication date

January 1, 1987
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5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
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0873644212
ISBN-13

978-0873644211
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Paladin Pr (January 1, 1987)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0873644212
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0873644211
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches

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As a professional writer since 1978, Mr. Christensen has penned over 70 published books with six publishers, dozens of magazine articles, and edited a police newspaper for seven years. He has written on the martial arts, the paranormal, missing children, street gangs, school shootings, workplace violence, riots, police-involved shootings, nutrition, exercise, prostitution, and various street subcultures. Of late, he has been writing an award-winning police thriller fiction series called Dukkha. His short stories—OLD ED, BOSS, and Parts—are popular among fans of gritty action.

His books have been translated into five languages. Policing Saigon and On Combat are also published as audio books.

The Masters Hall of Fame inductee began training in the martial arts in 1965 and continues to this day. Over the years, he has earned a 1st-degree black belt in arnis, a 2nd-degree black belt in jujitsu, and in 2018, the American Karate Black Belt Association awarded Loren a 10th-degree black belt in karate. As a result of his tour in Vietnam and nearly three decades in law enforcement, Mr. Christensen's focus in the martial arts—writing, teaching, and training—has always been on street survival, not competition. He has starred in seven martial arts training videos.

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Chuck

A awesome book

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2019

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I like reading books that help develop the skills, the speed and strength of the human body. And Mr. Christiansen is a very knowledgeable author. I highly recommend his book.

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A good basic guide to improving your combat effectiveness on the street.

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2009

As anyone who is involved in the martial arts knows, the key to making progress is not limiting yourself to only training in a formal class setting. The serious warrior will spend even more hours training alone. Many people taking a martial art have other obligations like, work, school, and family responsibilities. This often takes away time from formal training with an instructor. This excellent book provides some great ideas to increase your power, speed and other fighting skills training solo. The text covers mental training, environmental training, kata, cardiovascular training, weight training, and bag work.

In conclusion, this book will be of value to anyone who is self-motivated and will push themselves when training alone.

Rating: 4 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Monadnock Defensive Tactics System--MDTS).

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Adam Henson

The Way Alone

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2009

The Way Alone is a great read. It has very helpful information for beginner level martial artists to make the most of their time between classes. Mr. Christensen blends many techniques for improving every aspect of fitness, whether you're going for your next belt or training for a tournament.

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Captain Sternn

Enhance your skills when you have no training partners!

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2006

Of all the martial-arts writers, Mr. Christensen is one of the foremost sources on purely practical training for REAL COMBAT. He is a former Army military policeman (a Veitnam veteran), and a veteran of civilian law-enforcemnet. In many of his books he includes real-life accounts of violent encounters which he has experienced, utilized to illustrate a point in his discussion.

This book is a collection of various drills, excercises, and the like to enhance your fighting skills when you have no training partner. The training you conduct alone is as important as that which you do with your classmates. As a previous instructor in Marine Corps close-combat, I found the drills described inside to be universal for anyone involved in some manner of martial-arts, whether it be tactical or sport oriented. READ THE OTHER BOOKS BY MR. CHRISTENSEN TOO!

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Will Goodwin

A Wealth of Drills, but still lacking somewhat

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2002

I have always enjoyes Loren W. Christensen's writings and this book does provide much information. I do however believe that, though this is a wonderful source of information, if you compound this with his book, "Solo Training" you will gain a much greater understanding of his methods.

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Gamal E. Castile

Mediocre programs at best

Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2000

As a student of karate for 7 years and a Personal Trainer with 15 years of weight training and bodybuilding experience, I was disappointed with the very rudimentary information offered on all of the subjects within this book. One would be much better off locating other books covering such topics as mental training, weight training and general martial arts conditioning than going with "The Way Alone"

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