Samurai Method: Awakening Your Body’s Core Transformation Through Martial Arts

Just by moving your arms for a few minutes, your hip joints become more flexible... Why?

Whether you're practicing alone or with a partner, anyone can do it easily! Combat sports expert Naoyuki Taira's new method for improving body function quickly, based on martial arts techniques, is designed to adjust and activate the deep core of your body. In this book, he presents "Bone Integration Adjustment Techniques" derived from ancient martial arts and tailored to modern needs, offering a revolutionary approach to body adjustment and unlocking untapped potential.

Contents

Introduction: The Areas of Your Body That Aren't Moving

• 1. How to make your body more flexible in 5 minutes!
• 2. Were martial arts masters real?
• 3. The power of bones
• 4. Does convenience make us weaker?
• 5. The relationship between environment and life
• 6. A body revolution from thousands of years ago

Chapter 1: To Enhance Body Function, Focus on the Skeleton, Not Muscles!

• 1. The skeleton moves naturally in all directions
• 2. Bones move subtly within the body
• 3. Changing gears with the skeleton
• 4. The early years of famous athletes
• 5. Gears shift automatically
• 6. Discovering the misalignment between traditional martial arts and modern bodies
• 7. Simple feats achieved by shifting gears
• 8. Understanding martial arts forms
• 9. Forms as a reproduction of ancient environments
• 10. The wisdom in martial arts forms locks the muscles that allow for effortless movement

Chapter 2: What is “Bone Integration Adjustment”? What is the Samurai Method?

• 1. The latest yet ancient body revolution
• 2. Learning through the body, not the head
• 3. Awakening hidden areas of the body
• 4. Joints as screw-like mechanisms
• 5. What is “Bone Integration Adjustment”?

Chapter 3: To Move Correctly, Start with the Extremities

• 1. Correct body movement requires correct information
• 2. Awakening the natural movement of the arms
• 3. Where does power begin?
• 4. Awakening the natural movement of the legs
• 5. Awakening the muscles in the back of the hands and feet

Chapter 4: Breathing is the Start of Movement

• 1. Growth requires the right order and time
• 2. The primitive baby bed
• 3. Modern people’s “imperfect breath”
• 4. Move the spine!
• 5. The body is connected, and also connected to nature
• 6. Awakening the power of breath

Chapter 5: Bone Integration Adjustment Practice 1 – Awakening the Body Alone

• 1. Lying down techniques
  • Shoulder adjustments
  • Neck, shoulder, and lower back relationships
  • Hip adjustments
  • Hip and breathing coordination
  • Relationship between hip and shoulder joints
• 2. Standing techniques
  • Forward bends
  • Backward bends
  • Side bends
  • Rotations
  • Moving shoulder blades and pelvis

Chapter 6: Bone Integration Adjustment Practice 2 – Awakening the Body with a Partner

• Shoulder
• Neck
• Elbow
• Waist
• Knee
• Ankle

About the Author:
Naoyuki Taira, born in 1963 in Miyagi Prefecture, was a professional fighter during the early days of mixed martial arts and is known as the model for the protagonist Baki Hanma from the manga Grappler Baki. Taira has written books like Real Fight Jiu-Jitsu and The Treasure Island of Body Sensation, and has appeared in many martial arts-related videos.

Length: 180 pages

Language: Japanese

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