The Karate Way

Author : Dave Lowry
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824582
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Karate Way written by Dave Lowry and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karate is not just a sport or a hobby—it’s a lifetime study toward perfection of character. Here, Dave Lowry, one of the best-known writers on the Japanese martial arts, illuminates the complete path of karate including practice, philosophy, and culture. He covers myriad subjects of interest to karate practitioners of all ages and levels, including: • The relationship between students and teachers • Cultivating the correct attitude during practice • The differences between karate in the East and West • Whether a karate student really needs to study in Japan to perfect the art • The meaning of rank and the black belt • Detailed descriptions of kicks, punches, evasions, and techniques and the philosophical concepts that they manifest • What practice means and looks like as one ages • How the practice of karate aims toward cultivating character and spiritual development After forty years studying karate and the budo arts, Lowry is an informative and reliable guide, highlighting aspects of the karate path that will surprise, entertain, and enlighten.

Author : Forrest E. Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942637762
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living the Martial Way written by Forrest E. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step aooroiach to applying the Japanese warriors mind set to martial training and daily life.

Author : Dave Lowry
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590306473
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Karate Way written by Dave Lowry and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karate is not just a sport or a hobby—it’s a lifetime study toward perfection of character. Here, Dave Lowry, one of the best-known writers on the Japanese martial arts, illuminates the complete path of karate including practice, philosophy, and culture. He covers myriad subjects of interest to karate practitioners of all ages and levels, including: • The relationship between students and teachers • Cultivating the correct attitude during practice • The differences between karate in the East and West • Whether a karate student really needs to study in Japan to perfect the art • The meaning of rank and the black belt • Detailed descriptions of kicks, punches, evasions, and techniques and the philosophical concepts that they manifest • What practice means and looks like as one ages • How the practice of karate aims toward cultivating character and spiritual development After forty years studying karate and the budo arts, Lowry is an informative and reliable guide, highlighting aspects of the karate path that will surprise, entertain, and enlighten.

Author : GICHIN. FUNAKOSHI
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781715628048
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karate-Do written by GICHIN. FUNAKOSHI and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self-defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day, when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world, is Gichin Funakoshi, the "Father of Karate-do." Out of modesty, he was reluctant to write this autobiography and did not do so until he was nearly ninety years of age. Trained in the Confucian classics, he was a schoolteacher early in life, but after decades of study under the foremost masters, he gave up his livelihood to devote the rest of his life to the propagation of the Way of Karate. Under his guidance, techniques and nomenclature were refined and modernized, the spiritual essence was brought to the fore, and karate evolved into a true martial art. Various forms of empty-hand techniques have been practiced in Okinawa for centuries, but due to the lack of historical records, fancy often masquerades as fact. In telling of his own famous teachers--and not only of their mastery of technique but of the way they acted in critical situations--the author reveals what true karate is. The stories he tells about himself are no less instructive: his determination to continue the art, after having started it to improve his health; his perseverance in the face of difficulties, even of poverty; his strict observance of the way of life of the samurai; and the spirit of self-reliance that he carried into an old age kept healthy by his practice of Karate-do.

Author : Kenji Tokitsu
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570629986
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ki and the Way of the Martial Arts written by Kenji Tokitsu and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2003-08-12 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While technical prowess and physical power are essential characteristics of a martial artist, true mastery of the art comes by cultivating one's inner strength. Here, Kenji Tokitsu—an authority on Japanese and Chinese combat arts and a respected karate teacher—shows how cultivating ki (life force) and understanding the principles of budo (the martial path of self-development) can make training in martial arts more meaningful, effective, and personally and spiritually rewarding. Tokitsu emphasizes the mental aspects of martial arts practice including: • The importance of ki development • Seme, or capturing your opponent's mind • Understanding ma, the spatial relationship in combat Studying these concepts, he explains, gives martial artists the tools to train for a lifetime and at the very highest level. Tokitsu also gives a historical and cultural survey of budo, and explains how the Western view of budo training is different than the Japanese—a perspective rarely available to Western martial artists.

Author : Mark Adrian Groenewold
Publisher : Ishikawa-ken, Japan : Usagi Press ; Victoria, B.C. : Trafford
ISBN 13 : 1553698452
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karate the Japanese Way written by Mark Adrian Groenewold and published by Ishikawa-ken, Japan : Usagi Press ; Victoria, B.C. : Trafford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karate the Japanese Way is a text for beginners to Karate, a guide for parents and a window into martial arts training in Japan.

Author : Giles Hopkins
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623174481
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wandering Along the Way of Okinawan Karate written by Giles Hopkins and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal, philosophical, and historical exploration of Okinawan Goju-Ryu karate written by an experienced master. In Wandering Along the Way of Okinawan Karate, Giles Hopkins draws on his fifty years of martial arts experience to take the reader on a journey through the meaning of kata (form) and bunkai (application) in Okinawan Goju-Ryu karate. Hopkins offers his personal reflections on the enigma of karate kata while explaining many of its little-understood applications. With skill and insight into kata's connection to nature, the book addresses key topics such as why some movements are done slowly while others are fast, the significance of steps and turns, and the role of tradition in karate. The purpose of kata solo patterns is to solidify specific self-defense techniques. Contrary to the commonly held belief that kata techniques can have multiple interpretations, Hopkins argues that kata embodies specific martial principles that must be followed rigorously for it to be truly effective. He also reveals the spiritual dimensions of martial arts by explaining its deep connection to nature. Providing new understanding of kata structure, themes, and martial art principles, Hopkins sheds light on the practitioner's journey.

Author : Kancho Joko Ninomiya
Publisher : Frog Books
ISBN 13 : 9781883319748
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabaki Method written by Kancho Joko Ninomiya and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabaki means staying open to the world at large and responding to others in a way that blends energies in new directions. Whether it is a question of repelling an attack or building relationships, the combined energy that comes from sabaki is an effort of cooperation, openness, and respect. Whether you are training for health, competition, or self-defense, The Sabaki Method can show you how to turn defense into offense, anticipate attacks, condition the body, and focus the mind. Kancho Ninomiya takes the mystery out of karate.

Author : Kenji Tokitsu
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590309499
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inner Art of Karate written by Kenji Tokitsu and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budo, the way of the martial arts, is at heart a path of spiritual cultivation and self-realization whose aim is to develop a strategic mind that makes combat unnecessary. Kenji Tokitsu explains the philosophy of karate as budo and looks deeply at the key concepts that are essential for developing the budo mind in karate practice. These concepts are: • distance and timing, • rhythm, anticipation, and intuition, • and the cultivation of explosive but focused energy. These concepts are difficult to teach, but mastering them is the ultimate goal of any true martial artist. Tokitsu expertly guides the reader through these elusive ideas with clarity and a practical view.

Author : Shigeru Egami
Publisher : Kodansha
ISBN 13 : 9780870112546
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way of Karate written by Shigeru Egami and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1976 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: