Amazon.com description: Product Description: To Stand on a Stone is a set of 50 fundamentals principles that cross the boundaries of style, geographical location or chronological placement, issues that dog the martial artist continually. These fundamentals are brought together from the observations of the human body and the natural world around us, leaving you with a set of rules that will aid your training irrelevant of your martial background or preferences of approach. The book is stylishly separated into two themes; firstly, follow the narrative of Acmed, a young Neolithic man as he follows his masters lessons, waiting to climb upon 'that stone' searching for an assent to martial mastery. Secondly, experience the factual account of each principle as you are given definite concepts that are not 'how too' techniques but the physical laws that bind all three dimensional moment together, allowing you to not only understand all systems but to generate inspiration beyond that of repetition and take you into a world where freedom of movement reigns.