Best Karate: V.1: Comprehensive (Best Karate Series)

Best Karate: V.1: Comprehensive (Best Karate Series)

by Masatoshi Nakayama (Author)

Synopsis

This volume is one of a series presenting all karate and kumite' practiced by the Japan Karate Association. Each chapter contains photographs of an instructor of the Association executing a certain technique. 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'

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
Published: 23 Feb 1978

ISBN 10: 0870113178
ISBN 13: 9780870113178

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

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.