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Some of the authors former teachers were Nakayama, Okazaki, Mori, Kaze, Mikami, Kanazawa, Enoeda, Otsuka and Yamaguchi. Throughout this book you will find an impressive series of facts, names, dates, and anecdotes written by legends, including a...

Hiroshi Shinjo was one of the JKA's senior instructors who performs the Kata Unsu which is a combination of 15 different Shotokan katas here in one kata. Foreward was by Masatoshi Nakayama. This unique book with all the bunkai and exceptional photography...

Hiroshi Shinjo was one of the JKA's senior instructors who performs the Kata's NijuShisho and Chinte. These two forms express the true soul of Shotokan karate. Foreward was by Masatoshi Nakayama. This unique book with all the bunkai and exceptional...

Hiroshi Shinjo was one of the JKA's senior instructors who performs the Kata's NijuShisho and Chinte. These two forms express the true soul of Shotokan karate. Foreward was by Masatoshi Nakayama. This unique book with all the bunkai and exceptional...

Hiroshi Shinjo was one of the JKA's senior instructors who performs the Kata's Sochin and Wankan. Forward was by Masatoshi Nakayama. This unique book with all the bunkai and exceptional photography and as well an overhead camera make learning this form...

Hiroshi Shinjo was one of the JKA's senior instructors who performs the Kata Goju Shi Ho (Dai). Foreward was by Masatoshi Nakayama. This unique book with all the bunkai and exceptional photography and as well an overhead camera make learning this form...

Hiroshi Shinjo was one of the JKA's senior instructors who performs the Kata Goju Shi Ho (Dai). Foreward was by Masatoshi Nakayama. This unique book with all the bunkai and exceptional photography and as well an overhead camera make learning this form...

A Foreign Invasion … An Unarmed Nation … The Mystery of a Martial Arts Solved … Shotokan’s Secret Karate was invented by the world’s only unarmed bodyguards to protect the world’s only unarmed king…against...

During the early 1970's Richard Kim famous historian and author of several books would give lectures to his students and followers at the Chinese YMCA in San Francisco's China Town. He gave a rare series of these lectures on Yoshida Kotaro and Yoshida's...

Written in 1952 by Giken Hotta, this book also features illustrations and a few photographs, Reading the author’s notes will transport you back at least seventy years. This is when Karate was starting to come into the America. Shihan Hotta...

Written in 1952 by Giken Hotta, this book also features illustrations and a few photographs, Reading the author’s notes will transport you back at least seventy years. This is when Karate was starting to come into the America. Shihan Hotta...

The Weaponless Warriors by Richard Kim is one of the most coveted books on the martial arts. After being out of print for many years it is back in circulation. Kim is a talented story teller, as many of his students will attest to, as well as a Judo and...

The Weaponless Warriors by Richard Kim is one of the most coveted books on the martial arts. After being out of print for many years it is back in circulation. Kim is a talented story teller, as many of his students will attest to, as well as a Judo and...

One of the earliest books on karate, written by E.J. Harrison, this book is one of the best of the best when it comes to written descriptions of technique, coupled with accurate line drawings. The content of this rare book makes it truly one of the best...

The Great Grand Master of Japanese Goju, Gogen Yamaguchi is feature here in these two great books.  They are a  true lesson about his entire life and as well all the katas of Goju -the way he taught them. This is an amazing collection. Anyone...

   In this exciting new DVD and Book set, former Canadian Champion and instructor of over 9000 students DON WARRENER now teaches Japanese Goju exactly the way he learned it. This skilled instructor was himself a student of the world-renowned...

Elmar T. Schmeisser, Doctor of Medical Physiology and Master Instructor certified by the American Teacher's Association of the Martial Arts, brings together his scientific background and more than 25 years of experience in karate for the benefit of...

The "empty hands" or the "flowery hands" was a science, an art, a philosophy. It was practiced by monks who were devout believers in nonviolence more than 1500 years ago. Today we call it "Karate" and in our young country we think of it as something new!...