Product Description

These advanced kata may be selected for testing above shodan level. The techniques in Bassai Sho, using sword hand, ridge hand and tiger mouth, make good defenses against stick attacks. In Kanko Sho are many counter-attacks to the upper level. Chinte has unique techniques, the rarely seen tateken, and is especially valuable for women's self-defense.

Here is a list of all volumes in this series:
Vol. 1: Comprehensive
Vol. 2: Fundamentals
Vol. 3: Kumite 1
Vol. 4: Kumite 2
Vol. 5: Heian, Tekki
Vol. 6: Bassai, Kanku
Vol. 7: Jutte, Hangetsu, Empi
Vol. 8: Gankaku, Jion
Vol. 9: Bassai Sho, Kanku Sho, Chinte
Vol.10: Unsu, Sochin, Nijushiho
Vol. 11: Gojushiho Dai, Gojushiho Sho, Meikyo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56924 in Books
• Published on: 1986-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review

"Recommended to the competitor and ... colleges supporting karate teams." -Choice

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.

Customer Reviews

A Good Reference Tool
The entire BEST KARATE series is very educational once you struggle through how to learn the forms from the descriptions and pictures. The book does an excellent job, but learning and teaching forms from a book is inherently difficult. These forms come from a reliable source and are considered one of the authortative sources for these shotokan kata. Also includes great information (in the glossary) on japanese martial arts vocabulary. I enjoyed this entire series and found it overall very educational.

This series is the standard
I've been studying Karate (Shotokan) in southern Japan for three years with a 7-dan teacher who is also an international referee. We use this series, combined with separate video tapes, as the standard by which to learn kata. occaisionally our own kata differs from the book in small detail, but the books still provide the basis for study. (Our copies are in Japanese but otherwise identical to the English versions)