Best Karate Volume 1
Comprehensive
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2017
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781568364636 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1568364636 |
| Author: | Masatoshi Nakayama |
| Publisher: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Imprint: | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 311g |
| Dimensions: | 224mm x 150mm |
| Series: | Best Karate |
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“Recommended for the person who wants to find out what it’s all about.” -The Japan Times
“Recommended for the person who wants to find out what it’s all about.” —The Japan Times
About The Author
Masatoshi Nakayama
MASATOSHI NAKAYAMA carried on the tradition of his teacher, Gichin Funakoshi, 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.
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