Dynamic Karate

Sports & Outdoors

Kauz, Herman

Nakayama, Masatoshi

Individual Sports

Ward, Lock

Defense Against Multiple Assailants (Practical Karate Series)

Tuttle Pub

This six-volume series is a comprehensive, inexpensive and practical survey of self-defense tactics using karate techniques. Each book features numerous photographs and illustrations making it accessible to novice and expert alike.

Practical Karate 4: Defense Against Armed Assailants (Practical Karate Series)

Draeger, Donn F.

Book by Draeger, Donn F., Nakayama, Masatoshi

Practical Karate 5: Self-Defense for Women (Practical Karate Series)

Practical Karate 6: Self-Defense in Special Situations (Practical Karate Series)

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 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.

Best Karate, Vol.1: Comprehensive (Best Karate Series)

Kodansha USA

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.

Best Karate, Vol. 2: Fundamentals

In kumite (sparring) basic techniques are sharpened and body movement and distancing acquired through practical application. This volume explains the types and meaning of kumite and the relation between jiyu kumite and basic training in fundamentals. Demonstrated by instructors of the Japan Karate Association. 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.

Best Karate, Vol.3: Kumite 1 (Best Karate Series)

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.

Best Karate: Kumite 2, Vol. 4

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. Demonstrated by the author and Yoshiharu Osaka.

Best Karate, Vol.5: Heian, Tekki (Best Karate Series)

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