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Best Karate, Vol.1: Comprehensive (Best Karate) | 
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| Author: Masatoshi Nakayama
Publisher: Kodansha International
Category: Book
List Price: $17.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 97754
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 144
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0870113178
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.8153
EAN: 9780870113178
Publication Date: October 15, 1977
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Condition: Softcover. Sound & nice copy, light to moderate rubbing/edgewear to wraps, some warping to book.
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Product Description
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.
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This Entire Series Is Nothing Short Of Phenomenal October 28, 2008
Shawn Kovacich (The Greatest Little City in the World)
This series is without-a-doubt, hands down, simply the best series of books ever written on the Japanese martial art of Shotokan Karate. The format and layout for this series of books is exceptional and the only negative thing I could possibly allude to is more of a selfish comment in the fact that I would have liked to have seen each book in the series be even longer and filled with even more solid information.
These books are well written and easy to learn from, although some of them do require a bit of previous knowledge in Shotokan Karate in order to get the benefits from it, but this should be obvious, hence the sequential volumes.
This particular volume explains and demonstrates a lot of the basic techniques of Shotokan Karate. I highly recommend this and any of the books in the series without reservation.
Shawn Kovacich
Martial Artist/Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence series.
Best karate book I've read August 17, 2006
Ricardo Ortega (Boquete, CH Panama)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I studied from this book's spanish version. The precision with which Nakayama Sensei explained each technique is the closest thing to having a karate master teaching you the art. Even when nothing replaces the dojo experience, this series of books are the finest. Totally recommended
Excellent intro in Karate January 8, 1998
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
The book is well illustrated, and gives an excellent introduction into the different stances and strikes found in Karate. More importantly, it is probably the only book that illustrates the "flow" of the moves, instead of just showing the ends of the move. Overall, the book is great for a Karate-ka who want to refine certain things in Karate. Finally, the price that Amazon sells it at is really hard to beat! Ron Przygodzki
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