KarateFor Beginners And AdvancedAtlantic Publishers & Dist, 2005 - 344 pages Ever Since The Evolution Of Human Civilization, People Have Developed Some Or The Other Self-Defense Skills. Karate Is One Such Skill That Is Growing In Popularity With The Passing Of Years. But Unfortunately, Only Few Are Acquainted With The True Nature Of Karate; For Them It Is Associated With Sport Competitions, Smashing Boards Or Tiles, And Fight With Bulls. The Present Book Karate Aims At Providing The Readers With A Proper Theoretical Exposition Of Karate And Rendering Help In Its Practice. It Provides A Wider Perspective On The Varieties Of Karate And Their Related Techniques, Strategies And Tactics, And Also The Ways Of Its Learning And Training Methodology. Since The Classification Of Karate Is Complex As It Is Based On Style That Differs In Steering, Techniques And Training Methodology, In The Present Book A Chosen System Tsunami Has Been Evolved Under Which The Common Features In Various Styles On The One Hand And The Underlying Differences Among Them Have Been Enumerated And Entensively Explained. The Varied Ways For Improving The Art Of Fighting Have Also Been Systematically Suggested. The Tsunami Art Of Karate, Aiming At Achieving Versatile Physical Development Is Unique In A Sense That It Makes Use Of Various Instruments Like Stick, Nunchaku, Tonfa, Sickle Or Knife. A Regular Participation In Tsunami May Enable One To Become A Master Or Instructor Of Karate, Thus Offering Scope For Earnings.The Present Book Will Prove A Great Help In Mastering Tsunami. It Will Not Only Help Or Appeal The Beginners Or Advanced Learners Of Karate But Also Motivate The General Readers To Obtain Training In This Arena. The Lucid And Simple Language And The Rich Illustrations Of The Book Make It Easily Accessible To The Average Reader. |
Contents
The History of Karate | 5 |
7 | 61 |
Karate Techniques | 68 |
10 | 74 |
12 | 89 |
14 | 99 |
Kicks | 105 |
Blocks | 133 |
Learning of Fight | 225 |
Kata Forms | 235 |
Kumo | 239 |
Learning of Fight with Various Instruments | 251 |
Generally Developing and Relaxing Exercises | 263 |
A Place of Training | 273 |
Mental Development | 279 |
Meditation Exercises | 281 |
Falls Down | 145 |
18 | 151 |
Fight on the Ground | 163 |
Strategy of Fight in Tsunami | 171 |
23 | 193 |
Training of Karate | 202 |
Warm Up | 206 |
Training of Techniques | 219 |
Woman in Karate | 285 |
Age and Results in Karate | 287 |
Ways of Practicing Karate | 293 |
Origin and Development of Tsunami System | 298 |
Summary | 331 |
Pronunciation Japanese Terms and Other Ones 333 | |
Common terms and phrases
applied arrangement art of fight assailant assailant's attack beginning block body ceremony Chinese chudan circle clubs defense definite degree descent direction distance Dojo effective efficiency elbow especially example exercises eyes face fall fingers fist foot forearm forward front ground hand head hikite hips important improvement individual initial inside instructors introduced Japanese joints karate kata kick kinds knee knife learning of fight master masterly means meanwhile moreover movement moving muscles opponent opposite organism performing persons phase position possible practicing present raising reason result shoulder side simultaneously situation skill soke Richard Murat sport stance standing step strength stretching strike strong strongly surface techniques thanks thrust trunk tsunami instructors tsunami style tsuru-ashi-dachi turn unusually usually various Warsaw weapon whole zenkutsu-dachi zone 津波