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Twenty years after Britain's best selling karate book 'The Beginner's Guide to Shotokan Karate' first appeared, the author, John van Weenen, is publishing his amazing autobiography. In Funakoshi's Footsteps is a unique work and gives an honest, refreshing evaluation and insight into the 'not so idealistic world of Shotokan Karate', as seen through the eyes of a prominent British teacher. It 'pulls no punches' and exposes the myths surrounding many Japanese and British instructors, and offers a wealth of invaluable metaphors contained in more than two hundred individual stories. Above all, John's autobiography is filled with realism. Mistakes, (and there are plenty of those), humour, tragedy, compassion, romance, heartache and encounters and experiences with what resembles a 'Who's Who' of Japanese and English instructors since the death of Master Funakoshi.
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Only now, after a lifetime of experiences and forty years studying Karate-do, has John van Weenen put pen to paper and written his autobiography. The result is astonishing, providing a graphic account of an adventurer who has become one of Britain's most respected and influential instructors. From less than auspicious beginnings, John began the practice of karate in Australia. After being awarded his black-belt, he returned to England, before leaving for Tokyo to train at the Japan Karate Association. Arriving back in Britain in 1968, John aligned himself to the world famous Hirokazu Kanazawa, but ultimately it was Gichin Funakoshi, the 'Father of modern day karate', whose philosophy intrigued him. He found particular poignancy in the Master's words "Make benevolence your lifelong duty".
Twenty years after Britain's best selling karate book 'The Beginner's Guide to Shotokan Karate' first appeared, the author, John van Weenen, is publishing his amazing autobiography. In Funakoshi's Footsteps is a unique work and gives an honest, refreshing evaluation and insight into the 'not so idealistic world of Shotokan Karate', as seen through the eyes of a prominent British teacher. It 'pulls no punches' and exposes the myths surrounding many Japanese and British instructors, and offers a wealth of invaluable metaphors contained in more than two hundred individual stories. Above all, John's autobiography is filled with realism. Mistakes, (and there are plenty of those), humour, tragedy, compassion, romance, heartache and encounters and experiences with what resembles a 'Who's Who' of Japanese and English instructors since the death of Master Funakoshi.
About the Author
Only now, after a lifetime of experiences and forty years studying Karate-do, has John van Weenen put pen to paper and written his autobiography. The result is astonishing, providing a graphic account of an adventurer who has become one of Britain's most respected and influential instructors. From less than auspicious beginnings, John began the practice of karate in Australia. After being awarded his black-belt, he returned to England, before leaving for Tokyo to train at the Japan Karate Association. Arriving back in Britain in 1968, John aligned himself to the world famous Hirokazu Kanazawa, but ultimately it was Gichin Funakoshi, the 'Father of modern day karate', whose philosophy intrigued him. He found particular poignancy in the Master's words "Make benevolence your lifelong duty".
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