Product Description

Featuring Master Hirokazu Kanazawa, Manabu Murakami, SKI World Champion 1991, 1994 , Nobuaki Kanazawa, SKI World Champion 2000 you will see them perform at full speed plus some of there matches in Tokyo at the world Championships.

Kancho Kanazawa as many know was the first ever karate champion when he won the 1st Karate Tournament ever in 1957 in Tokyo s Metropolitan Gymnasium with a broken right hand and the next year he won again but this time in both kumite and kata.

On this DVD you will see the most common combinations and as well some of the more complex combinations Kancho teaches.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122887 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-07-01
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Review
See two SKI World Champions sparring at full speed and learn the combinations that won them their titles. --Risingsunproductions.net

Fightingspirit.com
"Learn from one of the Shotokan's's best fighters of all time."

Customer Reviews

If you study Shotokan Karate, get this video
First, the production values aren't much.

Second, the living legend, Kanazawa, doesn't do much on this except talk a little in heavily accented Japanese, and direct his students.

Third, IF YOU ARE A SHOTOKAN STUDENT, you want this dvd.

The quality of the technique is inspiring.

The exercises presented here are a part of the graded stepping up process that Shotokan Karate students go through as they move up the food chain to higher belts.

In specific, here you'll see five-step, three-step, and semi-free sparring exercises, and some stuff applicable to free style sparring.

But you know, watching Kanazawa's students go through their drills is inspiring, because you get to see what it's SUPPOSED to look like when karate students go through drills.

This sort of exercise is a little like doing scales on a piano to a piano student. It's a necessary part of getting to the big-boy exercises that have made Shotokan Karate the most practiced style of karate on the planet.

On the other hand, if you are a student of judo, or BJJ, or aikido, this dvd may not be useful to you. The exercises are somewhat formal, and somewhat Shotokan-specific.

If, however, you are a Shotokan student, you will watch these and say, "Boy, I wish my technique were as perfect as that!" And then you'll run out and practice some more.

And that's a good thing!

Perplexing
Strange is it not, that the same reviewer give five stars for every volume of this "back yard" production that is, at best, high school project level.

Kanazawa
Kanazawa is one of a kind teacher this DVD will help out your martial arts.