FUN STUFF

Here we offer a compendium of one-of-a-kind items, popular images of
martial arts, weird & silly (sometimes horrifying) little bits and pieces of slightly slanted, definitely unique and tangentially twisted aspects of the Martial World. ! Click to see the full list of offerings. Enjoy.

 

Swords of Silence!   
The story of the role of Secret Socities in everything from revoution to tableware...

Leverage     
Here they are, those comic send-away books that will teach you to all the right "tricks".

Demonstration Program      
Hurry up, there's a Kung Fu demo tonight! That is if you have a time machine...

Old Costumes       
We don't have much choice. Someone's got to save all those silly faux-kimonos.

T'ai Chi Nude!       
NOT a joke. What more can we say?

Karate... Kung Fu..no wait, by James Y Lee!
One of the earliest books in the field still sports charm...

Exercise the Official Way!
This record sets a record for martial fads that never quite...

No, anything but that!
The Fortune Cookie Philosopher of American media drops crumbs of his insights...

Postcards from the Shaolin Temple
Real postcards, real Temple, real cool...

Hopping Ghost Puppet
And why, exactly, do Chinese ghosts hop? The mystery explained...

KARATE: Fear No Man !!
Really, how many of us would admit such sources...

Gun Fu!
Like ninjitsu? Like cowboy hats? You're come to the right teahouse, pard...

Tong Wars!
The "benevolent association" was some times that and some times the opposite...

Stamp out Bruce Lee !!
Bruce as seen through the eyes of the philatelist...

Not Just Jujitsu...
There's JiuJitsu and then there's COMMANDO JiuJitsu, private!...

Bruce Lee Flip Cover Book
The most remarked section in FS...

T'ai Chi Devil Dragons
There are, gasp, some bad Kung Fu films. And then there's this...

The Ancestors of the Ninjas: Beware!
The skills of the vagabonds. The Kung Fu ninja connection, no joke...

Yawara!
Before Sticky Hands there was just a stick ...

 

Ever think about learning some Chinese? Here are some easy, interesting lessons in Chinese language. Each one takes a few useful words related to martial arts and explains the story behind the characters...

Lesson One: "Gong means work".