Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62809 in Books
• Published on: 1980-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Ah, well. You're stuck with it.
The printing is poor. The applications are unclear and, once dechipered, simplistic and unlikely. The small amount of actual writing is poor in execution and lacking in actual information. Three pages (a significant amount in a book this small) are wasted on a meaningless introduction and an explanation of what karate is which is pointless in a book which no beginner has a use for. The incredibly cursory section on the rhythm of the kata is less than useful, in fact it's barely better than indecipherable even if you already know the kata. There are technical mistakes in the pictures and the foot placement diagrams, admittedly not major ones as far as I've seen. The "Important Points" sections are laughable: "In it, of course, are techniques are of fast and slow tempo,". A quarter of a page for each kata's important points and the best they can say is that the kata is like every other kata. It is too damn expensive for a poorly printed, badly laid out paperback only 143 pages long.

But, despite all this, it's a must have if you are buying any karate kata books at all (well, after Best Karate: "Heian/Tekki" and "25 Shotokan Kata by Sugiyama Shojiro" if you can find the thing). Just remember that these books are the standard because they are the only books of their type and they are just good enough to be not completely pointless.

Excellent teaching source for the intermediate to advanced.
Through the use of pictures, american and japanese language, Nakayama is able to explain the kata's required after the Heian kata's in Shotokan Karate-do.

This book gives good understanding of the flow of the Kata's
The pictures illustrate how you should do your kata. They are easy to step through so the time that takes you to learn the kata is less because you can visulize all the steps with the book.