Best Karate: V.6: Kata: Bassai, Kanku (Best Karate Series) - Softcover

Nakayama, Masatoshi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870113836 ISBN 13: 9780870113833

Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc, 1980

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. Fully described and illustrated in this volume are the widely practiced Bassal and Kanku kata from the JFA recommended group. The student learns fast and slow techniques, the dynamics of strength, how to turn weakness into strength, changing directions, jumping and going to ground.'

About this title

Review:

"Best Karate puts it all together in a concise package." --The Japan Times

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: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0870113836
• ISBN 13: 9780870113833
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144