"Jedi Training" alluded to

[Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar]

Not really sure where this goes....

Finished reading "The Cestus Deception" and I must say that it was an AWESOME book!

Steven Barnes at the very end of te book in his acknowledgments, thanks an infomercial man for his help in developing the "Jedi Flow" training technique used in the book.

Thought you might like to see the guy's webpage where he talks a little about it.

Please remember that it is basically an infomercial, he is trying to sell, but its nice to see Jedi training taken seriously

www.clubbell.tv/jeditraining.html

[JediKai]

Actually, the page the link takes us to is an endorsement written by Steve Barnes himself. Then there's another link that takes you off to an ad for Steve's tape.

Mr. Barnes lives in Seattle and had a booksigning at the University bookstore on Monday. Unfortunately, my Rebel group was already scheduled to do a presentation at a Library, so we didn't go.

Glad to hear the book is good. Will plan to pick it up, but probably in paperback.

Steve always offers Tai Chi every morning at 8am at the local Cons he attends (OryCon & Norwescon).

[Leda EmBorr]

heheh... I like the guy's picture on the site... posing with the club. Kinda makes me wanna rotoscope a blade in there!

All kidding aside, his approach to circular strength training is intriguing. It's difficult to maintain balance when you're swinging a heavy thing, or lifting a heavy thing, even if you think it's heavy and it's not. Ever get thrown of balance by an empty carton of orange juice that someone left in the fridge and you thought it was full so you lifted it full force and it smacked you in the face? ;

[Xana]

Leda said:

Ever get thrown of balance by an empty carton of orange juice that someone left in the fridge and you thought it was full so you lifted it full force and it smacked you in the face? ;

::chokes on water::

I been there! Gotta love the "Duh!" moments of life.

[Schph Gochi]

I agree...I finished "Cestus Deception"....I really liked it....

and I did meet the author at the booksigning in Indy...

He is big into martial arts and was very gracious to us when we were there...he was even demonstrating some of the techniques....on the floor....

Matthew Stove (Shatterpoint) is also big into several forms of martial arts....

weird....huh...

anyway...Steven Barnes is a very charasmatic person...and was really a great speaker....

[JediMistressDragon]

Read Barnes' Alternate history SF novels and love his wife's novels (her name is Tananarive Due and one novel to be made into a film). So looking forward to reading his Star Wars novel--reserved at library--just waiting until my turn comes up.
I really stress reading hisLion's Blood series (2 books) and here's rest:
Novels
Dream Park (With Larry Niven), Ace Books 1981.
The Descent of Anansi (With Larry Niven) Tor Books, 1982
Streetlethal Ace Books, 1983.
The Kundalini Equation Tor Books, May 1986.
The Legacy of Heorot Pocket Books, written with Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Simon and Schuster , July 1987.
The Barsoom Project, Ace Books August 1989.
FUSION Five-part graphic novel for Eclipse Comics. 1987
Gorgon Child, Tor Books, December 1989.
Achilles' Choice (With Larry Niven), Tor 1991
The California Voodoo Game (With Larry Niven), 1991
FireDance-Tor, 1993
These works have been variously translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Hungarian and Polish.
Beowulf's Children, Tor, 1995 (With Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle)
Blood Brothers, Tor, 1996
Iron Shadows, Tor, 1997
Far Beyond the Stars, Bantam, 1998
Saturn's Race, Tor, 2000
Charisma, Tor 2000
Lion's Blood, Warner 2002
Selected Short Stories
"The Locusts" Analog Magazine, June 1979 (Nominated for the Hugo award)
"Endurance Vile" Isaac Asimov's S.F. Magazine August 1980
"Retrospective" Destinies, summer 1980
"...but fear itself." The Magic May Return, Ace Books, 1981
"The Thing in My Head" Previews Magazine, October, 1985
"Yelloweye" for Robert Adams's Horseclans anthology 1987
"Killsister" for Robert Adam's Horseclans anthology 1988
"Sandman" for Roger Zelazny's martial arts anthology Warriors of Mist and Dream 1995
Non-fiction; Books
Ki, Sen-do publications, 1976
LifeWriting (workbook and tape set), Ronin Arts Publications, 1992
Non-fiction; articles
Los Angeles Magazine,
Beyond,
Daily News,
Ampersand,
Black Belt,
Karate Illustrated,
Fighting Stars,
Vegetarian World,
and over a dozen more.
Kung-Fu columnist for Black Belt Magazine June 1986-June 1989.
Videotape Productions
LifeWriting/TOTAL SUCCESS tape, 1993
Firedance Tai Chi tape, 1994
The Art of Storytelling, 1999
Lifewriting writing system, 1999
Profiled in
Players Magazine, February, 1988.

[Schph Gochi]

Wow....he has quite a lot in his portfolio!

[Leda EmBorr]

Geez that's quite a career! It takes me 30 minutes to compose a TJA post


(that's an exaggeration, but not by much!)


Oh, and another 10 to modify it!