The library
Written for practitioners rather than laboratories: what the evidence supports, what the traditions got right, and where the two still disagree.
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The Hidden Science Behind Elite Movement
Every field that produces exceptional movers — martial arts, dance, sport, craft — has arrived at the same handful of truths, usually without knowing the others existed. Move. Dance. Fight. sets those traditions beside a century of motor-control research and asks what actually survives the evidence.
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Strength, Standing Practice and Ageing: What Your Tissues Actually Respond To
A companion volume to Move. Dance. Fight., built around a single uncomfortable fact: the tissues of the body do not share a training stimulus. Muscle responds to effort. Tendon responds to load magnitude and duration. Bone responds to rate and novelty of strain. Blood vessels respond to flow. Standing practice satisfies some of these superbly and others not at all.
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How the Internal Martial Arts Solved Problems Sports Science Is Only Now Learning to Ask
The internal arts spent centuries solving a problem modern sports science has only recently learned to phrase: how does a whole body behave as one connected system rather than a chain of strong parts?