Kung Fu & Tai Chi

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BRUCE TEGNER is a specialist in sport and self-defense forms of weaponless fighting skills. He is regarded as this country's outstanding authority, teacher and innovator in the field.
He was bom in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929. Both his parents were professional teachers of judo and jujitsu. They began to instruct him when he was two years old! Until he was eight, his mother and father trained him in fundamentals; after that he was taught by Asian and European experts. At the age of ten he began to teach - assisting in the instruction of children's classes at his parents' school. At seventeen, he was the youngest second-degree (nidan) black belt on record in the United States.
In a field in which most individuals study only one specialty, Bruce Tegner's background is unusuid. His education covered many aspects of weaponless fighting as well as stick and sword techniques. At the age of twenty-one, after he had become the California state judo champion, he gave up competition to... Tovább

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BRUCE TEGNER is a specialist in sport and self-defense forms of weaponless fighting skills. He is regarded as this country's outstanding authority, teacher and innovator in the field.
He was bom in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929. Both his parents were professional teachers of judo and jujitsu. They began to instruct him when he was two years old! Until he was eight, his mother and father trained him in fundamentals; after that he was taught by Asian and European experts. At the age of ten he began to teach - assisting in the instruction of children's classes at his parents' school. At seventeen, he was the youngest second-degree (nidan) black belt on record in the United States.
In a field in which most individuals study only one specialty, Bruce Tegner's background is unusuid. His education covered many aspects of weaponless fighting as well as stick and sword techniques. At the age of twenty-one, after he had become the California state judo champion, he gave up competition to devote himself fully to teaching, writing and teacher-training.
In the United States armed forces Mr. Tegner trained teachers to instruct weaponless combat, he taught military police tactics and he coached sport judo teams. He has trained actors and has devised fight scenes for films and television. From 1952 to 1967 he operated his own school in Hollywood where he taught men, women, children, exceptionally gifted students and blind and disabled persons.
Bruce Tegner has many books in print in this subject field. He has been highly praised in reviews by professionals in library and physical education journals and by psychologists. The books range from basic, practical self-defense to exotic forms of fighting for experts and enthusiasts. They are used as physical education texts, in recreation centers, by law enforcement training academies and by individuals throughout the world. Editions of Tegner titles have been published in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.
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