Best Karate, Vol.4
Title | Best Karate, Vol.4 PDF eBook |
Author | Masatoshi Nakayama |
Publisher | Vertical Inc |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1568364652 |
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, Vol.7
Title | Best Karate, Vol.7 PDF eBook |
Author | Masatoshi Nakayama |
Publisher | Vertical Inc |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1568364660 |
Two kata from the recommended list: Gankaku--crane standing on a rock--a name descriptive of this kata, which has techniques for striking upward or downward with either hand while standing on one foot. Here are dazzling techniques for counterattacking with the back-fist or side kick.In the Jion kata there are many crisp, flowing movements, but within these calm, harmonious movements are strong, spirited techniques appropriate for mastering shifting positions, changing directions and sliding the feet.
Best Karate: Fundamentals
Title | Best Karate: Fundamentals PDF eBook |
Author | Masatoshi Nakayama |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Karate |
ISBN |
Stresses the spiritual aspects of karate and demonstrates three advanced kata, or set sequences of blocks, punches, and kicks.
Best Karate, Vol.1
Title | Best Karate, Vol.1 PDF eBook |
Author | Masatoshi Nakayama |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1568364636 |
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.3
Title | Best Karate, Vol.3 PDF eBook |
Author | Masatoshi Nakayama |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-08-30 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1568365349 |
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.2
Title | Best Karate, Vol.2 PDF eBook |
Author | Masatoshi Nakayama |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-11-09 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1568364644 |
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
Title | Best Karate PDF eBook |
Author | Masatoshi Nakayama |
Publisher | Kodansha |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780870113246 |
This volume is one of a series presenting all karate and "kumite" practicedy the Japan Karate Association. Each chapter contains photographs of annstructor of the Association executing a certain technique.