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The perfect practice companion more than 3,000 photos illustrate all Kata, explained and demonstrated by Master Kanazawa. Available in English for the first time ever... The martial art of Karate can be practised by anyone, regardless of age or gender, and can be undertaken at any time during a person s life. Karate is one of the many facets of traditional Japanese culture that hold universal appeal and have been embraced worldwide. An important aspect of Karate learning is to engage repeatedly in the practice of kata: patterns of movement that are carefully choreographed and arranged in sequences. This book introduces ALL Karate kata, demonstrated by the author using 3,000 photos. It also explains in depth some of the more difficult aspects of Karate for students to master, including steps, breathing techniques, and pressure points. Kata need to be practised regularly on an individual basis, and this book is written with such training in mind. The author is a legendary Karate master, and his detailed explanations of all the important Karate kata will be an invaluable addition to the libraries of serious Karate practitioners.
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HIROKAZU KANAZAWA is the most respected figure in the Karate world today, and a close disciple of Gichin Funakoshi, the father of modern Karate and founder of the Shotokan school. Kanazawa founded the Shotokan Karate-do International Federation in 1979, after gaining his impressive reputation in Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, and Europe as an official trainer for the Japan Karate Association. The Shotokan Karate-do International Federation now has branches in more than 120 countries throughout the world. Kanazawa is the author of Black Belt Karate and Karate Fighting Techniques, published by Kodansha.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Just what you would come to expect from one of the all time greats in Japanese Shotokan karate, a large (hard back) 240 page book packed with hundreds of small black & white detailed photos & explanations of all the 26 kata in the Shotokan canon.
Each move & many of the intermediate moves are explained in full detail under the pictures.
One nice little surprise for ALL Shotokan Karate-ka is a new (for me anyway - it's actually very old) kata called Koryu Gankaku or (Gankaku-Sho).
Each of the katas movements are highlighted with easy to read symbols to help you with speed, breathing & kime etc.
Bunkai (application of kata) is shown at the end of each kata as well as a glossary of karate terms.
Quite simply a great book to complete Kanazawa Sensei's bookshelf of books including: Black Belt Karate, Karate Fighting Techniques: The Complete Kumite, Karate My Life
At least in this book you may find all the Shotokan Kata in one place, whereas before you had to buy two books which are now becoming quite hard to get a hold of: Shotokan Karate International Kata: Volume 1 & Shotokan Karate International Kata: Volume 2
Each move & many of the intermediate moves are explained in full detail under the pictures.
One nice little surprise for ALL Shotokan Karate-ka is a new (for me anyway - it's actually very old) kata called Koryu Gankaku or (Gankaku-Sho).
Each of the katas movements are highlighted with easy to read symbols to help you with speed, breathing & kime etc.
Bunkai (application of kata) is shown at the end of each kata as well as a glossary of karate terms.
Quite simply a great book to complete Kanazawa Sensei's bookshelf of books including: Black Belt Karate, Karate Fighting Techniques: The Complete Kumite, Karate My Life
At least in this book you may find all the Shotokan Kata in one place, whereas before you had to buy two books which are now becoming quite hard to get a hold of: Shotokan Karate International Kata: Volume 1 & Shotokan Karate International Kata: Volume 2
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
One's work should be compared to everything one has achieved so far. We ordered this book for our dojo to compare it with Kanazawa's first Kata book (actually one book but published in two parts).
The biggest problem with this book is that the transitions between the steps/stances are not shown correctly. In his previous book Kanazawa paid great attention to these transitions. This is very bad for beginners. They may know how a Kokucu-Dachi and Senkucu-Dachi look like, but the difficulty lies in combining the moves correctly. The images in the book show the beginning of the transitions and not the middle and thus important part of them. It is clear that it can't be as detailed as a video, but this was shown much better in Kanazawa's earlier kata books.
Pros:
* All Shotokan katas in one book
* Hardcover
* The technical analysis / interpretation (Bunkai) of the moves is longer than in the previous books of Kanazawa
Cons:
* Not all katas are performed by Kanazawa himself
* Images are quite small (they were bigger in the previous books of Kanazawa)
* Images with the transitions between the moves are poorly done (there is text below the images trying to fix this, but an image says more than a thousand words)
* Names of moves not below the image it belongs to (was better in previous book). You have to look up numbers like 19, 19-A, 19-A (rear view)...
* Nothing new in the text part. The history of the katas for example are copied from the previous books.
* We found some errors in the text below the images. The names of the moves are not always correct in the kata Jion for example. (Image 36-A is not a Nagashi-Uke)
* Deteriorated Style: As Kanazawa got older his style clearly deteriorated. His moves are not looking as good as they were in his previous books.
This is a book by Kanazawa the master of kata. It's not possible to perform a kata totally perfect, but when someone is doing a book on kata, he should look at every image and try to make it perfect. Unfortunately, this has not happened here.
We suggest that you get Kanazawa's earlier kata books.
The biggest problem with this book is that the transitions between the steps/stances are not shown correctly. In his previous book Kanazawa paid great attention to these transitions. This is very bad for beginners. They may know how a Kokucu-Dachi and Senkucu-Dachi look like, but the difficulty lies in combining the moves correctly. The images in the book show the beginning of the transitions and not the middle and thus important part of them. It is clear that it can't be as detailed as a video, but this was shown much better in Kanazawa's earlier kata books.
Pros:
* All Shotokan katas in one book
* Hardcover
* The technical analysis / interpretation (Bunkai) of the moves is longer than in the previous books of Kanazawa
Cons:
* Not all katas are performed by Kanazawa himself
* Images are quite small (they were bigger in the previous books of Kanazawa)
* Images with the transitions between the moves are poorly done (there is text below the images trying to fix this, but an image says more than a thousand words)
* Names of moves not below the image it belongs to (was better in previous book). You have to look up numbers like 19, 19-A, 19-A (rear view)...
* Nothing new in the text part. The history of the katas for example are copied from the previous books.
* We found some errors in the text below the images. The names of the moves are not always correct in the kata Jion for example. (Image 36-A is not a Nagashi-Uke)
* Deteriorated Style: As Kanazawa got older his style clearly deteriorated. His moves are not looking as good as they were in his previous books.
This is a book by Kanazawa the master of kata. It's not possible to perform a kata totally perfect, but when someone is doing a book on kata, he should look at every image and try to make it perfect. Unfortunately, this has not happened here.
We suggest that you get Kanazawa's earlier kata books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you are looking for a book to learn the kata from this is it, if you are looking for a book to tweak your kata, this is defo it. For example Empi, myself and a fellow karate-ka were debating on a part of the kata of which we disagreed on the correct movement. So, Being written by kanazawa you can bet your money he knows the answer. We had a little look in the Empi section and found our answer (incidentally i was right), but in short you can not go wrong with this book, nicely printed, clear pictures and well written.
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Very complete explanation of each movement in shotokan kata and good pictures too.
It is the next best thing after DVD/youtube or obviously the real thing!
It is the next best thing after DVD/youtube or obviously the real thing!
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