Rodney King

In his latest book, Shugyo Fit, world renowned modern martial artist, Rodney King, redefines the warrior spirit and brings artistry back to martial arts. In Shugyo Fit, Rodney teaches you how to tighten the slack of your inner game through martial arts training, using your body as the only tool, and in so doing, polish your spirit. Shugyo Fit equips you with the necessary tools to maintain balance between Fighter and Artist and to create personal mastery both on and off the mat.

Shugyo Fit

What if you could take the lessons from martial arts to supercharge your life and career? In this book, Rodney King, world renowned modern martial artist will introduce you to 6 principles that will enable you to achieve just that. This is a book about achieving peak performance no matter where you find yourself, on the mat, in the ring, or in life.

Full Contact Living

Lawrence J. Spagnola

On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage. Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving mother, and an alcoholic father. Soon young Rodney followed in Dad's stumbling steps, beginning a lifetime of alcohol abuse. King had been drinking the night of March 3, 1991, when he engaged in a high-speed chase with the LAPD, who finally pulled him over. What happened next shocked the nation. A group of officers brutally beat King with their metal batons, Tasered and kicked him into submission—all caught on videotape by a nearby resident. The infamous Rodney King Incident was born when this first instance of citizen surveillance revealed a shocking moment of police brutality, a horrific scene that stunned and riveted the nation via the evening news. Racial tensions long smoldering in L.A. ignited into a firestorm thirteen months later when four white officers were acquitted by a mostly white jury. Los Angeles was engulfed in flames as people rioted in the streets. More than fifty people were dead, hundreds were hospitalized, and countless homes and businesses were destroyed. King's plaintive question, "Can we all just get along?" became a sincere but haunting plea for reconciliation that reflected the heartbreak and despair caused by America's racial discord in the early 1990s. While Rodney King is now an icon, he is by no means an angel. King has had run-ins with the law and continues a lifelong struggle with alcohol addiction. But King refuses to be bitter about the crippling emotional and physical damage that was inflicted upon him that night in 1991. While this nation has made strides during those twenty years to heal, so has Rodney King, and his inspiring story can teach us all lessons about forgiveness, redemption, and renewal, both as individuals and as a nation.

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