Essential Karate Book: For White Belts, Black Belts and All Levels in Between [Dvd Included]

Product Information

Those who have gained a measure of skill but have not yet achieved spiritual maturity are the dangerous practitioners.

The Shotokan Karate Bible includes everything you need to support your training right up to the coveted black belt, as well as revealing the devastating self-defence applications contained within the shotokan karate system. Instead, it is more common for a particular martial art to consider a few aspects as being more important and to focus on them. Vividly illustrating the techniques of a legendary innovator, this definitive examination explains how to survive attacks on the street, increase training awareness, and develop body movements. It’s about the mindset, the discipline, and the perception necessary to win in life or death situations.The three kata in this volume are on the Japan Karate Association recommended list and are notable for the sticklike use of the arms–Jitte, the circular movements of hands and feet coordinated with breathing–Hangetsu, and easy, agile movements, combined into continuous techniques–Empi. Master Funakoshi, however, recognized in this book and others the need to formulate the kata precisely, so as to establish a standard of true Okinawan Karate.

This follow-up to the Shotokan Karate Bible sets out an advanced syllabus with a combination of full-colour illustrations and concise text for the advanced student who wishes to build on their training in preparation for 2nd degree black belt (nidan). This book provides crucial information about street survival that most martial arts instructors don’t even know about. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Using a very stable stance, muscular power is built up slowly in many movements, instantaneously in others, leading to a keen sense of timing for continuous. He also discusses the importance of winning without fighting, and the reason why many great martial artists improve with age.The book truly outlines the essence of Karate and should be mandatory reading for today’s Karate youth especially. From the first enthusiastic kiai in the dojo to the solemn black belt presentation ceremony, students learn that karate is all about fitness, confidence, discipline and respect. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line of Shunryu Suzuki's classic.