Karate Fighting Techniques: The Complete Kumite

Great book by the most incredible karate master.

This is the first time I've seen every reviewer saying a book is worth 5 stars but that is precisely the case for this book by Kanazawa. If you are an avid karate book collector and practioner that this work has to be in your collection. Very well laid it and crystal clear throughout it really does deliver and is worth 5 stars. As for Neil's comments about its deficiencies in teaching how to compete at kumite tournaments well my opinion is exactly the opposite. Kanazawa provides all you need to know about 'defending' yourself against friend or foe, or competitor or casual acquaintance. If the penny doesn't drop while reading this book then read alongside it the book Karate-Do, My Way of Life by Funakoshi. There you will witness that 'defending' is really also winning, on and off the tatami.

used this book to increase my knowledge on shotokan karate and improve my basics kata and kumite in shotokan

First class book

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Amazing book written by a legend of Shotokan Karate. Amazing photographs and descriptions

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Livro excelente. A entrega foi feita com muito cuidado e em tempo hábil. Voltaria a comprar com a loja.

Ottima descrizione delle tecniche. Buone anche le illustrazioni e le foto. Dai fondamentali rudimenti del combattimento, gohon kumite, fino al jiyu kumite, risulta essere un'ottima guida.

Hirokazu Kanazawa, President of Shotokan Karate-do International Federation, has complied an outstanding book that balances history and tradition with the different forms of kumite. This book is not the normal primer. If one does not know at least the basic punches and kicks, do not get this book as a novice guide to learning karate. Kanazawa's approach assumes the person has these basic techniques down. If you are one of those people, still buy the book only if you plan on learning karate in the future when the opportunity arises. In addition, while this book is primarily a Shotokan text, he does review the major Okinawa/Japanese karate styles, goes over terminology, and a particularly nice paragraph on p. 19 on the "verbal greeting `Oss'" The photos are of high quality, which is important in a text that demonstrates many sparring steps via pictures. The explanations are thorough enough to get the point a cross, but not unnecessarily tiresome and too detailed to loose the reader or make the book overly cumbersome. A nice companion martial texts to a martial artist's library.

Un livre très bien fait, clair, avec des photos explicites et des bons commentaires. Kanazawa, connu pour avoir été un excellent tacticien et combattant, nous explique en détails les différents types de kumite et expose de façon simple et détaillée une foule de techniques de blocages et de contre-attaques qui sont bien utiles pour être appliquées en entraînement ou même pour un passage de grade. On est parfois même étonné de la variété des techniques et de leurs combinaisons qui peuvent être utilisées, et qui ne sont pas toujours toutes abordées en cours. J'ai acheté ce livre d'occasion en anglais pour 13 euros, car il était impossible de le trouver neuf, et la qualité est quasi-parfaite. Je prends plaisir à le consulter régulièrement et j'y trouve toujours des informations nouvelles ou des précisions pour telle ou telle technique. Un livre qui complète merveilleusement les ouvrages de Funakoshi "Karate-do Kyohan" et "My way of life" que tout karateka sérieux devrait posséder et surtout avoir lu.

Libro que se pude utilizar como guía para enriquecer el entrenamiento del kumite deportivo y mas si se dedican a dar clases. De la calidad de uno de los Maestros Pilares y difusores a nivel mundial del Karate Deportivo (Jka-Nakayama), y posteriormente del SKIF.