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Best Karate: Fundamentals. Vol 2 (Best Karate)

Best Karate: Fundamentals. Vol 2 (Best Karate)

by Masatoshi Nakayama (Author)

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    Paperback 1981

    $6.84
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. 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
Published: Dec 1981
ISBN 10: 0870113240
ISBN 13: 9780870113246

Media Reviews
Karate-do analyzed in a logical, meaningful way. Full marks. --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.