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KARATE TECHNIQUE AND SPIRIT
Tadashi Nakamura
Class Sak-19
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This is a book of technique, a guideline for training, and an exposition of moral philosophy. The author presents the basics - warmups, punches, blocks, and kicks - and the advanced practice of traditional weapons and kumite. With over 700 photos, this book conveys the essence of karate-do and how it can bring deeper meaning to our daily lives.
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BEGINNING KARATE
Tonny Tulleners
Class Sak-25
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Tulleners, the 1965 International Karate Champion (middleweight division) demonstrates the techniques of shotokan karate for both the novice student in the dojo and the student training at home. He describes each technique in detail, discusses the most common errors made by the beginner, and provides training tips. Fully illustrated. 192 pages. (ISBN 0-89750-027-X)
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KARATE BASICS
Robin Rielly
Class Sak-19
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This book provides new students with everything they need to succeed. Many photographs illustrate proper stances, blocks, strikes, and kicks. Also included are discussions of history and philosophy and training drills. 6.75 x 9.75 in. 192 pages.
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CLASSICAL KATA OF OKINAWAN KARATE
McCarthy
Class Sak-25
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McCarthy, a shorinji-ryu stylist who trained with the art's founder, Joen Nakazato, demonstrates all Okinawan karate kata. This fully illustrated book includes a detailed history of Okinawan karate and its kata, and biographies of 37 of the art's greatest patriarchs. It also includes rare photos of these patriarchs. 256 pgs. (ISBN 0-89750-113-6)
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Books ITEM: BOO-1100-A1
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BEST KARATE 01
Nakayama
Class Sak-01
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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.
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Books ITEM: BOO-1101-A1
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BEST KARATE 02
Nakayama
Class Sak-01
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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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BEST KARATE 03
Nakayama
Class Sak-01
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This volume explains the types and meaning of kumite and the relation between jiyu- kumite and basic training in fundamentals.
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Books ITEM: BOO-1103-A1
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BEST KARATE 04
Nakayama
Class Sak-01
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This book complements volume 3 of this series and, like the earlier volume, includes writings of masters of the martial arts to guide the student toward spiritual awareness and mental maturity. It places kumite in perspective, relating it to training as a whole.
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Books ITEM: BOO-1104-A1
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BEST KARATE 05
Nakayama
Class Sak-01
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Kata, the formal exercises of karate training, were the essence of practice in Okinawa and China, and are the core training method even today. Detailed here in 1500 sequential photos are the five Heian and three Tekki kata, mastery of which is necessary to attain first dan.
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Books ITEM: BOO-1105-A1
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BEST KARATE 07
Nakayama
Class Sak-01
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The three kata in this volume are on the Japan Karate Association recommended list and are notable for the stick like use of the arms—Jitte, the circular movements of hands and feel coordinated with breathing—Hangetsu, and easy, agile movements, combined into continuous techniques—Empi.
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