Best Karate: Heian, Tekki. Vol 5 (Best Karate) - Softcover

Nakayama, Masatoshi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870113798 ISBN 13: 9780870113796

Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc, 1979

Synopsis

This volume is one of a series presenting all karate and kumite' practiced by the Japan Karate Association. Each chapter contains photographs of an instructor of the Association executing a certain technique. 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.'

About this title

Review:

"Technically excellent." --Library Journal

About the Author:

MASATOSHI NAKAYAMA carries on the tradition of his teacher, Gichin Funakoshl, the Father of Modern Karate. Long professor and director of physical education at Takushoku University, his alma mater (1937), he was chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association from 1955 until his death in 1987. A ninth degree black belt and a familiar face at tournaments, he was among the first to send instructors overseas and to encourage the development of karate along scientific lines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0870113798
• ISBN 13: 9780870113796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144