Analyzes karate techniques commonly preferred by contestants in sport bouts. Explains the kinetic composition of individual fighting actions

Great karate champions generally have one factor in common: they have trained with some of the best instructors in the world. Now you can learn the basic fundamentals essential to success in the sport from one of the greatest karate superstars of our time

Donn Draeger was one of the most famous and well-respected martial artists of the twentieth century, and he was a pioneer in bringing Asian martial arts study

Chuck Merriman, former world class competitor, coach of the USA team, needs no introduction to the martial arts world.

Ethics, Chivalry and the Samurai Code - for Lawyers, Doctors, Managers - by George A Katchmer, Jr.

Linking the time when karate was a strictly Okinawan art of self-defense shrouded in the deepest secrecy and the present day, when it has become a martial art practiced throughout the world

In 1965 Sifu Kuo Lien- Ying, a Chinese master of Tai- Chi Chuan, brought with him to the United States the traditional form of Tai-Chi from which the many other family-named forms were derived.

The ART OF KARATE is a unique book that for the first time presents karate pictorially-as a genuine art form rather than merely as a means of self-defense or as a contact sport

Nestor Capoeira, a long-time teacher of capoeira and noted mestre (master), begins this revised edition of his bestseller with an in-depth history of the Brazilian art

Welcome to the exciting art and sport of karate. By learning the techniques of karate, you can begin to gain greater self- confidence

KARATE is the most widely recognised of the martial arts and today enjoys much support throughout the world.

To make the weight for his first bout he had to stuff his shorts with lead. At the age of only twelve, he was already making headlines

A companion volume to the highly successful Karate-do Manual, now in its sixth edition, this book breaks new ground in martial arts territory