Product Description

Karate The Japanese Way is a book about how karate is practiced and taught in Japan. Written by author Mark Groenewold, a teacher and karate student in Japan, this text gives readers a peek into a traditional karate training hall in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

This text is ideal for karate students of all levels, and for Western karate instructors as well. Written in an informative, yet conversational style, Karate The Japanese Way hopes to encourage new students and challenge older ones to check their own experiences and styles against how karate is traditionally taught in Japan.

Karate training, to new-comers, is a unusual and strange experience. This book clarifies mis-understandings and mis-insformation about karate and gives some guidance as to how to find good, safe, and practical karate instruction. Dozens of photos are throughout this book, showing rather than telling readers what karate is really like here in Japan.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1139850 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-01
• Released on: 2006-07-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

About the Author
Mark Groenewold is an Assistant Professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and has been training in karate for more than ten years under Takao Taniguchi, a masterful instructor and friend. Although still very much a student of karate, Mark Groenewold is also an assistant instructor in the karate training hall he belongs too.

Mark lives in Kanazawa for the present with his charming wife Katie, their boy Jacob, and their miniature schnauzer Spock. Life has been fun in groovy Nippon.