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Shotokan Horizon: A Technical Account of the First Karate Training in Great Britain (1956-1958) by Dr. Clive Layton

Shotokan Horizon: A Technical Account of the First Karate Training in Great Britain (1956-1958) by Dr. Clive Layton

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In a series of interviews shortly before his death, Vernon Bell, the founder of the British karate movement, described, in some detail

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Binding	Paperback
Publisher	Mona Books UK
Country of Origin	UK
Number of Pages	87
Pubilcation Date	2007
Condition	New

Product details

Shotokan Karate Book
by Clive Layton
Series of short interviews
Development of Shotokan in the UK
Great read

Shotokan Horizon Description

In a series of interviews shortly before his death, Vernon Bell, the founder of the British karate movement, described, in some detail, what he taught his earliest students, before his encounter with Master Tetsuji Murakami, in Paris, in August 1958. Shotokan horizon, therefore, is concerned with the karate that Bell learned from Henri Plee and Hiroo Mochizuki, whilst under the auspices of the Yoseikan dojo, in japan.

Altough strongly influenced by the Shotokan style from the outset, early British karate bore the hallmarks of French chivalry with terms such as 'cavalier stance' for kiba-datchi, 'pike-hand' for nukite, and 'hand-sabre' for shuto, being employed. Plee, considered by many to be the Funakoshi of Europe, was highly regarded by Bell, who faithfully followed his teachings in an attempt to establish karate in the british Isles.

From the author of such classics as Shotokan Dawn, Funakoshi on okinawa, and Kanazawa, 10th Dan, comes another brilliantly researched and important work.

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