Karate-Do Kyohan: The Master Text | Gichin Funakoshi | What else can you say after The Master Text

Karate-Do Kyohan: The Master Text | Gichin Funakoshi | Essential for any karateka in any time

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	Karate-Do Kyohan: The Master Text Gichin Funakoshi Kodansha International, 1973 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

What else can you say after The Master Text

This is clearly the master text. If you study Shotokan and wish to understand the teachings of Funakoshi, this is the book. An excellent reference for both teacher to refine his skills and student to assure they have learned properly.

Essential for any karateka in any time

I've made an overview and realized, once more, that the most important of learning karate rests in exhaustive techniques comprehension. More than practice kumite, kata and kihon are the first level of karate's spirit. Kumite is a necessary complement of the two first basis but never comes first. This book has shown it to me clearly.

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Work of Art!

There are ton of books and manuals that have a hard time coming close to this one. While reading this you get a good feel that "he's done this before". You can tell his is a professional and loves his work... this makes it easy to read and learn -- from the 4 other books I've bought on the subject and trained with - this one easily outshine the others...

Focus is everything.

The text in this book very enlightening. I recomend this book to all people, from the begginer to the most advanced pupil of the Art. Master Funakoshi expresses his ideas and methods very well.

Excellent, but the original was better... :-)

Although not a practitioner of Shotokan Karatedo, I have had an original 1935 copy of this book for many years, when I finally broke down and bought the English translation. I was not disappointed. I do feel however, that Oshima Sensei should have left in the photos of Funakoshi Sensei himself performing the techniques and kata, or at least left in the photos that show womens' self defense, in only from an historical point of view. All in all, though, this book is one of the most comprehensive on the market today.

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