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Oyama: The Legend, the Legacy (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Unique Publications (Subs. of CFW Enterprises, Inc (1 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1892515245
  • ISBN-13: 978-1892515247
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.3 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 778,793 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good information expressed badly, 18 Feb 2001
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The book contains some very usefull information about Sosai Masutatsu Oyama's life and activities. Unfortunately the information in the first chapter tends to repeat itself in the folowing chapters. The same thing is said twice or three times in different ways. Some information that I had about Sosai Oyama is slightly different than what it is presented in this book, and that made me wonder how accurate the information presented here is. By the way the book is written one can tell that it wasn't the work of a professional writer (e.g. repetitons of the same word two or three times in the same sentence), and the format of the book makes it look consistent (174 pages), when it could have been much thinner. However, the book offers a glimpse of Mas Oyama's phylosophy and taste of Sosai's out of print books, that are used as reference.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but with some flaws, 12 Aug 2003
Interesting story about Mas Oyama. I enjoyed reading about my sosai, but first of all the book is quite short. I read it in one evening. It will take at most two if you have other things to attend to. Second, add to the brevity of the book, it is very repetitious. And as most of the repetition is about the "legendary exploits of the godlike Oyama", you'll soon start feeling like you're going to throw up your lunch. When you just think you've seen the last of it, another chapter starts by reciting how many challenge fights and how many bulls Oyama has beaten and how many months he trained inhumanly in the mountains and so on. Just too much of repetition for such a short book overall. I've also heard rumours that there are some factual errors in the book, but don't have any further info about them. Some obvious typoes are repeated throughout the book (like goju-ryu is spelled gojo-ryu). Also, quite an amount of the book focuses on other aspects than Oyama, things like the different kinds of sparring practice and the different master instructors and tournament champions of kyokushinkai. Perhaps the book should've been named "Oyama and His Karatekai". It definitely should've been longer and less repetitious.
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