I’ve known this book has existed for a while, and while I was at Half Price Books today I found a copy. I saw it said something about street fighting on the side, and I glanced and realized while looking on the side what it was. I got it for $7.98+tax, and sure enough I opened the cover flap and it had Gene’s name printed on the front page. Check it out.
BTW Gene, do you own a copy of it still? I have no idea what I am going to do with it. I simply bought it cause I knew it was out of print (and for good reason) and dunno what to do with it now.
Some trekkie might pay big bucks for that. Well, maybe not.
That book was by a classmate of mine, Chet Braun. The funny thing was that he wasn’t even that into Star Trek; I doubt he could’ve named the original crew when he wrote it. I’m not even sure why he wrote it. I designed the cover. That was back in my graphic design days. Although he supplied all the images, including a disc of stock patterns with which I did the swirly cover. It took me about half an hour - and I never took a class in graphic design (I barely read the photoshop manuel). I was paid handsomely for the job, which made up for all the graphic arts jobs I did when I wasn’t paid. Anyways, he printed up a lot of those and then was immediately shut down by Paramount, and for good reason. To this day, he insists he was in the legal right, to which I reply, then why isn’t the book legal to sell? So it’s a bit of a collector’s item, and yes, I do have a copy in my martial arts library.
Funny thing, that book is the reason i started martial arts Was just a Star Trek nerd that never trained anything, and was very interested in Klingons so i bought this book. Read the book, got interested in it, and also got a big catalog with lots of martial arts stuff in it. Consequently started training Kung Fu, then kickboxing, then tae kwon do, and now the past 2.5 years i’ve been training MMA/BJJ and think i finally found my spot in MA
So here i am 6 years, 4 arts and 2 MMA fights later And it can all be tracked back to that book to begin with. Of course i may have started anyway But who knows.
Sometimes you get shone the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right
That’s a great story, qeySuS. I’m sure that I can speak for everyone involved in that book project and say that we are very gratified to hear it inspired you so. That was the underlying intention of the author (beleive it or not) so I’m happy to hear that he actually succeeded.
Now if only we can recruit all those Star Wars geeks too…
Re: Sometimes you get shone the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right
Originally posted by GeneChing Now if only we can recruit all those Star Wars geeks too…
We get a lot of new kids who say they want to be Darth Maul when they sign up. They used to say they wanted to be ninjas/power rangers. So, I would say it’s already underway…
Well, Ashida Kim is really into the Church of the Jedi. He’s got a link to their message board from his website, too. I wouldn’t be suprised if he self-published the books like he does those crazy ninja manuals.
OH I already did. After going through LucasFilm’s offical website I came across the e-mail address for webmaster@starwars.com
I also found on THX website a copy infringement form, however I didn’t submit it because I don’t think THX would care as much as the offical Star Wars website.
I once had to learn Klingon phrases when bouncing at a club with a big international cliental - the idea was no one would know what we were saying. They were right, no one did - including the bouncers.
Also - there used to be a guy who road the ‘El’ train in Chicago wearing a Star Fleet uniform complete with ‘Star Fleet ID’ tag. Okay, if he was really from the future, wouldn’t there be a different way to ID people than a laminate tag?
Was just a Star Trek nerd that never trained anything, and was very interested in Klingons so i bought this book. Read the book, got interested in it, and also got a big catalog with lots of martial arts stuff in it. Consequently started training Kung Fu, then kickboxing, then tae kwon do, and now the past 2.5 years i’ve been training MMA/BJJ and think i finally found my spot in MA 
