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Best Karate Volume 1

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Best Karate Volume 1
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Masatoshi Nakayama
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 224,Width 150
Category/GenreOriental martial arts
ISBN/Barcode 9781568364636
ClassificationsDewey:796.8153
Audience
General
Edition 2nd edition
Illustrations 1 Illustrations, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Kodansha America, Inc
Imprint Kodansha America, Inc
Publication Date 9 November 2012
Publication Country United States

Description

All the basic points of karate arranged systematically for effective learning, step by step--the parts of the body used as natural weapons, the stances, how to block, how to attack, introduction to the kata and to kumite. The fundamentals as presented in this volume, briefly but accurately, are the distillation of the author's forty-six years' experience in this art of self-defense. As well as setting forth the basic rules that must be put into practice when performing kata or applying techniques in kumite, this volume pinpoints the underlying physical and physiological principles of karate- source and concentration of power; stance, form, stability and technique; movement in all directions; basic and comprehensive aspects of training.

Author Biography

MASATOSHI NAKAYAMA carries on the tradition of his teacher, Gichin Funakoshl, the Father of Modern Karate. Long professor and director of physical education at Takushoku University, his alma mater (1937), he was chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association from 1955 until his death in 1987. A ninth degree black belt and a familiar face at tournaments, he was among the first to send instructors overseas and to encourage the development of karate along scientific lines.

Reviews

"Recommended for the person who wants to find out what it's all about." -The Japan Times