By Yossi Sheriff

The most important book for martial arts practitioners was probably once, before the www, the yellow pages. It symbolized the making true of fantasies, the decision to actually practice, to find an instructor.

When I started there were no "Yellow pages", I started training in Doron Navon's dojo in the seventies following a friend's recommendation. I stayed only to find out that many books provide inspiration but none helped in dealing with the most difficult objects.

By Yossi Sheriff

Kitab el AKBAN, for no apparent reason, that is the name I call the book "Tree climbing for pedestrians". I have adopted this book as ours since it speaks of many things that are important to us as martial arts practitioners.
The book was written by Dan Ha'Shimshoni, one of the AKBAN veterans. He wrote it many years ago.

Dan and me have been busy lately writing the AKBAN outdoors book, the famous black belt okugi. This book will be very different from "Tree climbing for pedestrians", it distills our knowledge and our favorite whiskey into a short, full of flavor booklet.
It is written:

By Yossi Sheriff

After a long wait, probably over one thousand five hundred years, a translated English version of the important and cool book by Issai Chozanshi (or as we in AKBAN call him – I.) has been published.

In the book you can read lectures by a Tengu (or as we call him – T.), the mythological demon who began teaching of Ninjutsu, and to whom we owe our kata.

Not many martial arts pride themselves with the fact that their prime teacher is a crow-like demon – we do – what other choice do we have.