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(More customer reviews)It is impossible to learn karate from a book. However, the finer points of basic techniques are much easier to grasp when you are not sweating at the dojo, but carfully perusing photographs of talented karateka performing those techniques.
Beside the wonderful pictures, one of the things I found most useful were the diagrams of the position of the hips and how to rotate them while executing the tecniques.
This book is a reprint of a previous book (originally published in 1978). This explains how the prologue could be written by late Masatoshi Nakayama, who passed away years ago.
I feel really proud of practicing Karate-do in the tradition of such great people as Gichin Funakoshi, Masatoshi Nakayama and Hirokazu Kanazawa. And I also feel thankful.
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Black Belt Karate: The Intensive CourseIn Black Belt Karate, Hirokazu Kanazawa, the most respected figure in the karate world, offers a systematic approach to basic karate, and provides an intensive training course. Karate is a martial art that can be practiced by anyone, regardless of age or gender, and can be undertaken at any time during a persons life. The training system employed in karate comprises three main areas: kihon (basics), kumite (sparring), and kata (forms). Using meticulously detailed explanations and illustrative photos, Kanazawa provides readers with an intensive self-study training course designed to be accessible to beginners, as well as to those already at an intermediate level. If practiced continuously and diligently over the course of a year, a practitioner will be able to attain black-belt-level proficiency. Praise for Black Belt Karate: "By following each and every page of this book as if receiving instruction directly from Mr. Kanazawa, I believe that over time, with careful practice, gaining proficiency is all but guaranteed. For anyone setting out to master karate-do, you hold in your hands a fine book indeed.The late Masatoshi Nakayama, former chief instructor of the Japan Karate Association and author of Kodansha's Best Karate series
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