This unique book is the first known to exist on the new fighting art and combat sport of Freestyle Karate: the refinement and development of a classical martial art to the point that it now enjoys worldwide participation.
With origins in the karate practitioners of America, freestyle broke new ground by taking aspects of the old technique and refining them according to their own rules, importantly involving new methods of restraint and adapting judo and aikido moves to elaborate and expand freestyle to an all-embracing system. The book is both a history of the movement and a practical handbook showing and explaining what to do, with comprehensive detail on all major aspects of the activity: stance, punching and kicking, blocking and sparring techniques are all described in clear text and illustrated with crisp photography, as well as guidance to the philosophical demands of freestyle karate.
This first evaluation of the new variant of karate technique will be welcomed by freestylers as the definitive reference to their art, whilst traditional classicists will recognise their own form as the roots of the new karate movement.