Shotokanx

A fantastic collection of 5 great books in Japanese and in English by Hiroshi Shoji. Including katas like Unsu, Nijushi ho, Goju Shi Ho Sho and Ni, Chinte, Wankan, and Sochin. Excellent descriptions and superlative photography with overhead shots making...

Gichin Funakoshi once famously said, ”First control yourself before attempting to control others." Beginners can recite these sayings, but only Karate masters will really understand them. The Twenty Precepts of Gichin Funakoshi by Vincent A. Cruz...

Hiroshi Shinjo was one of the JKA's senior instructors who performs the Kata GojuShi Ho (Sho). 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 and...

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...

SHOTOKAN (松濤館Shōtōkan) KARATE is developed from various martial arts by Gichin Funakoshi (1868–1957) and his son, Yoshitaka (Gigo) Funakoshi (1906–1945). Funakoshi was born in Okinawa, Japan, and is very widely credited with popularizing...