Defence de leong (4 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. THE COVER IS RUBBED AND CREASED. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE BUMPED. THE SPINE IS RUBBED AND THE EDGES ARE SCUFFED. THERE IS LIGHT FOXING TO THE PAGE EDGES. THERE IS A STICKER TO THE FRONT INSIDE COVER. THE PAGES ARE YELLOWED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Complete set of 21 Volumes - Chinese Kung-Fu Karato (Atado) Leong Fu System of Self-Defence: The Chinese Art of Self-Defence that is Executed Almost Without Any Body Contact. Each volume is a folder-style booklet. The inside flap of the back-cover is extended to fold over the top of the pages. The pages are loose and held in place by a plastic slip that extends all the way around the booklet. Booklet number 3 is missing it's plastic slip. The covers of the booklets show some light shelf wear and creasing in places. There is some wear around the edges and corners of the booklets. Some booklets have some light water staining and foxing. Booklet number 21 has a crack along the spine, however the cover has not become completely loose. A previous owner has numbered each booklet in pencil on the bottom of the front covers. These booklets may require additional postage costs. If you require more information or photos, please contact us.…

Unbound. Condición: VG+. 1st Edition. Complete in twenty-one (21) wallets each with unbound sheets, red front covers illus. and lettered in black, back covers with photograph of Leong Fu, each wallet with a clear PVC strip original to issu. This set much finer condition than typically found, ranging VG to Near Fine, with some covers showing minor creases or rubbing, minor wear along folds and at corners. Corner creases to several of the plates, typical of issue and almost unavoidable. Includes cover letter from Leong Fu, bearing his (facsimile) signature. Seldom found complete. Book.…

First editions, a complete set of Kung-Fu Karato (Atado) training cards by the school's founder Leong Fu, a 1950s wrestler who pivoted toward selling his brand of fighting to capitalise on growing Western interest in martial arts. The early life of Edward Leong Lee Fu (1932-1991) is somewhat enigmatic, but it is believed that he learnt Ju Jitsu as a teenager in Malaysia from Japanese officers stationed there following the invasion. By the 1950s, he was a professional wrestler, touring Britain for three months and then travelling to Singapore in 1957 for a much-anticipated showdown with Emile Czaja, better known as "King Kong", with the match ending in a no contest. Shortly after the Singapore bout, Leong Fu released this set of training cards for his patented Karato style to tap into a growing Western fascination with Asian martial arts - a trend reflected in sports but also in cinema and literature. In the United Kingdom, the British Judo Association was founded in 1948, with the British Karate Association following in 1964. Several years later, Hollywood's "Kung fu wave" began to gather momentum with the films of Bruce Lee. For Leong Fu, the West represented an expansive market. His adverts appear in the 1960s in a wide range of American and British periodicals, such as Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and, more unusually, British Homing World, the official magazine of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association. These adverts, signed "Asia's Greatest Karato Master: Leong Fu", promised readers a chance to "learn direct from the Orient" a technique that "paralyzes aggressors within seconds". For an enthusiast dreaming of karate mastery, the present cards were ideal. In one final twist in the tale of Leong Fu, following retirement, he opened a restaurant in Malaysia and grew it into a national franchise. 21 red and white card wallets containing loose sheets, front wrappers printed and illustrated in black, rear wrappers illustrated with a photographic portrait of Leong Fu. Illustrated front wrappers to each number, photographic profile of Leong Fu to rear wrapper of each number, illustrated and photographic figures to loose sheets throughout numbers 1-21. Housed in grey archival box. First number front wrapper almost split but holding, with a small chip to front top fore-corner, otherwise general rubbing and creasing to extremities, generally the set in very good condition.…