Best Karate: v.1: Comprehensive by Masatoshi Nakayama

Best Karate: v.1: Comprehensive by Masatoshi Nakayama

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'

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.

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ISBN 13	9780870113178
ISBN 10	0870113178
Title	Best Karate: v.1: Comprehensive
Author	Masatoshi Nakayama
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kodansha America, Inc
Year published	1978-02-23
Number of pages	144
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