Best Karate: Jitte, Hangetsu, Empi. Vol 7 (Best Karate): v.7 - Softcover

Nakayama, Masatoshi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870113909 ISBN 13: 9780870113901

Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc, 1981

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.

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Review:

"An understandable text and clear, well-posed photographs." --Library Journal ]"An understandable text and clear, well-posed photographs." -Library Journal ]"An understandable text and clear, well-posed photographs." -Library Journal !"An understandable text and clear, well-posed photographs." -Library Journal ]"An understandable text and clear, well-posed photographs." -Library Journal "An understandable text and clear, well-posed photographs." -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: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0870113909
• ISBN 13: 9780870113901
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144