Does anyone here remember Bruce Tegner's books of photographic instruction in Judo and Aikido, from the early 1970s?
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You may wonder why I am prompted to ask this.
I certainly wonder why I am prompted to ask this, or even think of the matter.
The human mind is so much incomprehensibly bigger than the human consciousness.
I was just sitting out on the deck having a smoke, and completely out of nowhere, I thought of those books, which I owned and loved and tried to learn from, as a 12yo in small-town Kansas 55 years ago.
Yes! I could not have remembered the name of the author until you wrote it here, but I remember the books.
There was one, or maybe a couple, on basic self-defense, pretty simple to follow. I read and reread that one.
As a weird outsider kid who got bullied to some extent, they were a huge confidence builder for me. Probably made me overly confident, but just feeling confident made me less likely to be picked on.
@GeePawHill today i had a very interesting discussion with my wife on how sometimes the questions are more important than the answers.
@GeePawHill Yes, they were pretty old by the time I checked them out in the early 90’s. I got a Tai Chi book that was similar too. My grandmother was a librarian and I’m not sure if she dug them out of the archives. Martial arts seemed extra popular then, but I think the Judo episode on Andy Griffith started us down the rabbit hole.